tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post1670474711086848206..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: Marked by BiasCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-49213795704110945182018-10-03T19:33:05.611+01:002018-10-03T19:33:05.611+01:00According to the BBC all migrants should have the ...According to the BBC all migrants should have the right to permanent residence and the full range of welfare benefits, and then should automatically have the right to become British citizens, no questions asked. It is indeed absurd and insulting that we are supposed to believe that is the only way you can plug gaps in the labour market. <br /><br />As I remarked elsewhere, our dependence on labour from mainland Europe in our adult care sector is far less than Easton was making it (only 7% nationally). It's clear labour in the sector is underpaid and that is what is driving a never ending conveyor belt of migration from Eastern Europe (a conveyor belt because the sector has a huge annual turnover of over 27%). <br /><br />We need to increase incomes, make the career more attractive and high status, and replace labour with technology, whilst also using technology to allow old people to stay in their homes if possible or in sheltered accommodation. <br /><br />One point I would make about "British people won't do these jobs" is that if you go somewhere like the Merseyside area where current migration levels are quite low, the people involved in adult care are clearly locals (whatever their ethnic category). Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-29799164974054596682018-10-03T18:15:33.387+01:002018-10-03T18:15:33.387+01:00Just propagandist tosh from start to finish from E...Just propagandist tosh from start to finish from Easton, just one of the many reasons I find it too insulting to listen to the BBC these days. <br /><br />The transcript exposes the usual tropes of conflating "migrant workers" with "immigration" and of the tired old stand-by that "British people won't do these jobs". What is with these British people then? Lazy? Fastidious? Too clever? Either way this trope is insulting to British people or migrants, and probably both.<br /><br />Although I had to smile at the suggestion that UK's immigration policy should be based on the principle that people shouldn't have to carry their own bags.<br />Ozfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17351381043702605990noreply@blogger.com