This is really the point. People assume its personal and it's not. Most Britons get on with their colleague wherever they are from, but the job market is jus that, a market.

Massively increase supply and wages go down. Reduce supply and wages go up.

I simply don't buy this narrative as I've spent my career in manufacturing. Job desirability is dependent, largely, on pay. Depress the pay, kill the desirability.

Mining and ship building were often seen as a hard jobs, but they paid well, so never struggled for labour.

Like you, I've worked with many EU and non-EU citizens, almost all excellent.

But the job market is a market like any other and government policy was to inject a fresh cohort into the job market every year with obvious results

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There is no such thing as 'jobs Britons won't do'. It's my singular aim on Bluesky to kill it. All jobs have a price, and we need to give people in the market a chance to find it without crippling their bargaining power.

If McGovern lost the support of his internal team, the new CEO would have sensed it and he was doomed. I'm alway curious about execs who don't attend carefully to this facet of business management.

That data shows very clearly that the problem set in well before Brexit (which was the consequence, not the cause of wage stagnation).

If fact, looking at that graph, we can see that Brexit barely had any impact in the medium-term trend.

RSVP: #UK has the scrap/skills/ambition to be a global leader in #CircularSteel. But w/out the right policy framework, we will continue sending this valuable resource abroad, along w/jobs and investment. The current system 🚨makes no economic or environmental sense🚨

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Fire up those electric arc furnaces at Port Talbot. Can't come quick enough.

The governments number one priority should really be to give workers back their bargaining power. It'll have a dynamic effect on the economy.

That habit had set in before the GFC 2008. It's a consequence of the era of high immigration and its impact has been widespread, long-lasting & disastrous.

In my view, it is the primary reason for the past two decades of wage stagnation.

This approach to managing Britain's economy has become so embedded in government, despite its wrong-headedness, it's difficult to see how it can be changed.

You may already have this planned, but when going over how much it costs, please do it in layman's terms; so the monthly and upfront cash costs as separate numbers for an average home for with an average daily usage, not the glowing best-case scenario.