Re: So many issues...
The suggestion that we should just train our own is a bit like saying Barcelona or Real Madrid should just train their own...
The trouble is that the UK establishment has interpreted this as meaning it is pointless training our own when it is so much cheaper to import people...
We've seen this just recently with the UK governments decision over nurses, where it has simply exempted nurses from it's immigration caps and no mention of any additional funding etc. of local training and capability development...
To succeed in a knowledge-based economy, you have to have the means of producing workers who can work in a knowledge-based economy. Hence education becomes very important; so we don't have a 1000 power engineers today sitting around waiting for a job, can you wait six months while we upskill a bunch of power/electrical engineering graduates?
It is because the UK establishment hasn't understand such matters that life post-Brexit will be much harder than they need to be.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
