I thought our abysmal productivity was a result of corporates benefiting from cheap labour (especially from the EU). The main thing both corporates and government seem to love is not bothering with training. Why worry when you can go and poach fully trained people from abroad. Now I can see why corporates like cheap well trained labour from overseas especially when tax credits subsidise the low pay and the tax payer gets to fund their housing benefit, children’s schooling and use of the health service. What governments get from this is less clear. Of course Labour governments got votes and some have argued the Tories kept their corporate friends happy. And I guess spending on R&D features in there somewhere.
David Waring
3 years ago
“ I don’t think it was deliberate effort to stitch-up the North and other neglected parts of the country.”Of course it was, after all Southerners hated spending time away from London.” Scotland was OK as they always went there over August.
I thought our abysmal productivity was a result of corporates benefiting from cheap labour (especially from the EU). The main thing both corporates and government seem to love is not bothering with training. Why worry when you can go and poach fully trained people from abroad.
Now I can see why corporates like cheap well trained labour from overseas especially when tax credits subsidise the low pay and the tax payer gets to fund their housing benefit, children’s schooling and use of the health service. What governments get from this is less clear.
Of course Labour governments got votes and some have argued the Tories kept their corporate friends happy.
And I guess spending on R&D features in there somewhere.
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I don’t think it was deliberate effort to stitch-up the North and other neglected parts of the country.”Of course it was, after all Southerners hated spending time away from London.” Scotland was OK as they always went there over August.