Priti Patel will be urged to raise the minimum salary threshold to £36,700 for all new foreign workers who want to live in the UK after Brexit.
The Centre for Social Justice, co-founded by Iain Duncan Smith, is making the call to increase the threshold in a bid to restore “integrity” to Britain’s immigration system.
A report from the right-wing think-tank set to be published tomorrow warns that record levels of low-skilled immigration in recent years have pushed wages down for those born in the UK on lower salaries.
But it has already been slammed by commentators.
Author Emma Kennedy said: “So let me get this straight. When we have a DIRE shortage of nurses, our EU nurses are returning home in droves, Priti Patel wants to raise the threshold for migrants wanting to work here to £36,700?
“Who do Brexiters think is going to look after our sick? Dogs with sad eyes?”
The Centre for Social Justice report says the Home Office could exempt key sectors like the NHS to allow workers making less than £36,700 to continue to come to the UK to work.
But it is unclear how industries such as construction, hospitality, farming and services would cope.
Madness. Many jobs carried out by ‘migrants’ – in nursing, social care, farming, industry, hospitality, etc. pay less than £36k a year; there aren’t enough British citizens to take their places. Are these sectors, vital to our wellbeing & economy, going to be allowed to collapse?
— Malcolm Fincken (@MalcolmFincken) August 11, 2019
as someone just pointed out ..
. No Teachers
No Nurses
No Researchers
No Care Workers
No Hospitality Industry
No Agricultural Workers
No……
and in the real world, I only know 2 out of the hundreds I have worked with over the years who got more than £30,000 , and most like me, after 36 years, had risen to the dizzy heights of £24, 000 – years of no pay rises, and crap pay to start with. just because she’s never had a real job, just PR fluff and propaganda, she thinks that’s what normal people get??? hasn’t she got any researchers – oops that’s right they wouldn’t be able to afford to work here….
the emphasis is on the word “NEW” idiots.
People born and raised in this country have already established after years of training and education are still are not on this threshold of income, but you want to alienate new people coming into this country that hold up our infrastructure based on wages?! There’s only one idiot in this thread
Just so. Retired from a career in Health and Social provision I am quite sure that the Homecarers and the Care staff in Residential Homes and the Nursing assistants and the Nurses and the fruit and vegetable pickers, etc., etc., ect., would love to earn over £36,700pa. and there would soon be no shortage of willing workers 🙂 but unless there is some form of conscription to fill these posts with UK workers for the current wages offered then these jobs will remain undone. So Preti please put on your flat shoes/wellies and latex gloves/overalls on and prepare to put yourself where you policies are…
What about retirees coming home after years working abroad, and wish to bring their foreign wives? No way is the old age pension even half of the £36k! Have the Government never heard of housewives? And what about the fact that immigrants ultimately contribute more than they take?
These rules are obstructive in the extreme! The UK needs more immigrants, not less!!
This is great if the majority of people already earning in the UK earned that amount, we need migrants for the jobs that a lot of British people deem below them – and they certainly dont get that for picking veg, etc!
The Tories have a solution to the NHS crisis; they plan to issue unlimited numbers of ‘thoughts and prayers’ vouchers to anyone who is sick or injured, part of their ‘heal thyself’ manifesto!
So lets get immigrants to do all the well paid jobs that we could be training British people to do.
do you think if we paid £36 grand we could not live in the “UK” after brexit? , love Scotland
“The Centre for Social Justice” – what an oxymoron. When the average UK salary isn’t anywhere near that of the expected salary to qualify. And can we please have less of the rubbish that migrants drove down salaries. Even the government-commission MAC report stated in September 2018 that this was not true, as well as revealing that migrants a) take far less from the public purse than they put into it and b) they pay more in taxes than the indigenous population, ie. UK-born tax-payers. Migrants are continuously being vilified for all sorts of alleged evils, and the greater public are lapping it all up, believing sensationalist journalism at its’ worst – even BoJo has been guilty of lying in his column, and being paid £££s for his drivel!
My eldest son’s wife retained her American citizenship after marrying & settling down in England with British “acquired” citizenship. She has an American degree in mathematics, but cannot tolerate becoming a maths teacher as she doesn’t relate to children (& won’t have any of her own). She has been notified that unless she can prove gross taxable earnings (that’s pre-tax and inclusive of both employers and employee’s N.I. contributions) of £36k in her own right or combined (with my son) gross taxable earnings of £72 in the current tax year she is liable to repatriation. She has re-qualified as an accountant and applying for accountancy jobs in the hope that an employment contract that will tip them over the £72k will be sufficient. What a country.
After Brexit lazy benefits people go to work ,or go live on street
massive benefits cut come welcome in real capitalism world ,
We back to home ,brirs go work
Fuck-off! Russian bot-moron 😩
The whole idea that we reduce humanity to money makes me sad beyond belief. The thought that it is *my* country doing it is even worse. Okay, there have been years when I earned well above that threshold – but not many of them. I guess the UK Government thinks it doesn’t need somebody who has worked on two EU free trade agreements …
People born and raised in this country have already established after years of training and education are still are not on this threshold of income, but you want to alienate new people coming into this country that hold up our infrastructure based on wages?! There’s only one idiot in this thread
Coffee shops will look very interesting with no staff…
Immigrants, fixing the problems caused by the native Brits, no need to thank them.
Immigrants take less benefits than UK citizens and put more into the pot.
Our old people would be in an even worse situation if we didn’t have immigration.
It’s the only way we will pay for the massive costs of our aging population, you clearly don’t like it, but you should get used to it.
From the various ONS reports and such. They pay tax and use relatively less services than aging folk, thus help pay.
We have open borders, that’s not quite the one way stream you suggest. Maybe in a generation or two the movement would be greater, assuming we bother teaching languages to our kids.
I support immigration because I believe in the words of Thomas Jefferson: That “all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” That works for me, it obviously doesn’t work for you. Why do people endlessly whine and whimper regarding the endless tsunami of mass immigration into the UK……..then go straight right out and vote for pro-mass immigration political parties like Labour, the Tories and Liberals. ? If they really are that stupid, then perhaps voting isn’t really for them and they get the Gov they deserve. You get what you vote for, so give the moaning a rest, please.
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If the minimum wages stays at this rate all worker should work at least 14.50 hours 6 days a week to make 36 k a year.