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Re:No visas for low-skilled workers, UK government says by threeseed on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @11:08PM (#22362969)
UK had a massive supply courtesy of the EU and they benefited immensely from it.

Now that it is going to dry up what is the long term solution for health and social care workers for example.

You can't automate genuine human compassion and understanding with a DL neural net.

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Re:No visas for low-skilled workers, UK government says by fiblye on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @11:11PM (#22362981)
The UK benefited from it, sure. Meanwhile Bulgaria's population has dropped by about 25%. They deserve health workers just as much as Brits.
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Re:No visas for low-skilled workers, UK government says by plantain on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @12:01AM (#22363156)
Are you really pro-brexit because you're concerned about Bulgaria's healthcare?
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Re:No visas for low-skilled workers, UK government says by fiblye on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @12:49AM (#22363349)
I'm from nowhere near Europe and I'm not letting anyone pin me as pro/anti-brexit. I just think it's weird how some "common sense" policies that benefit one country often come at the cost of another country.
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Re:No visas for low-skilled workers, UK government says by Tomis02 on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @01:50AM (#22363571)
You make it sound like Bulgarians were enslaved and sent to work on foreign lands. No, people left voluntarily for a better life. Also, these policies benefitted Bulgaria as well, otherwise they wouldn't have joined.
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Re:No visas for low-skilled workers, UK government says by myle on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @12:40AM (#22363311)
That would make a lot of sense if he is from Bulgaria. Also, in other cases too.
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Re:No visas for low-skilled workers, UK government says by holografix on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @11:25PM (#22363031)
The solution is lower rates of population growth. Romanian youth were already preferring to stay home and seek office jobs than to travel to the UK to work low paid manual labour jobs. It’s inevitable that economic growth around the EU drains the pool of cheap labour.
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Re:No visas for low-skilled workers, UK government says by thinkingemote on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @04:36AM (#22364171)
I think nursing would be classed as skilled?
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