FootballFan said:
From my interpretation, British jobs for British worker meant that if, two people of the same ability went for a job the British person would get priority. If it was the case that he was putting the case forward that British people could go for any job in Britain and they would ahve an equal oppotunity of getting it as a foreign national then why even mention anything? To your last point, if there wasn't such a underfunding of the school system there wouldn't be a need to get foreign scienstist and people in the first place. For way to long we have been having a worse education success rate than many european countries. |
Favouring a British worker with the same ability is fine, but the fact is a foreign national can apply for any job they like and if they're significantly better then they'll get the job.
British jobs for British workers would mostly affect the unskilled, so if two people went for an interview as a shelf stacker, the British person would be more likely to get hired. However, if they went for an interview at a nuclear power station and the British applicant held an a-level in physics and the German applicant held a PhD in nuclear Physics, then the German would get the job.
That system is not racist, it's just supporting your own people a little bit. Whereas just letting British people get jobs over the foreign worker regardless of experience, or even just outright instructing the foreign worker on what the job they have to do is, is not acceptable.
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As for schooling, yes the system isn't perfect, but what is the solution? You can't just fund the schools indefinitely to produce more scientists, the well acknowledged fact that their is no correlation between states education funding and states average grades in the USA is evidence of this.
The problem lies much deeper. The schools system isn't underfunded, it's under performing.







