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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2022 13:22:40 GMT
I think the chief executive officer of Next should speak to Ms. Priti who declared in the past that labour shortages could be filled by 8.5M economically inactive people in the UK. But wait, what post-Brexit Britain looks like is for all of us to decide -- really? Is the man demanding a second referendum?  -----
Brexiteer complains Brexit isn't going how he wanted - and gets no sympathy
Kate Plummer - 1h ago
Next chief executive officer Lord Simon Wolfson told the BBC today the government should let more foreign workers into the UK to ease labour shortages.
He said: "We have got people queuing up to come to this country to pick crops that are rotting in fields, to work in warehouses that otherwise wouldn't be operable, and we're not letting them in. And we have to take a different approach to economically productive migration."
He said that the government needed to decide whether the UK was an open free trading nation, or whether post-Brexit it wanted to be "fortress Britain", pulling up the drawbridge to foreign workers at significant cost to the economy.
"I think in respect of immigration, it's definitely not the Brexit that I wanted, or indeed, many of people who voted Brexit wanted," he said. "And we have to remember, you know, we're all stuck in this Brexit argument, we have to remember that what post-Brexit Britain looks like, is not the preserve of those people that voted Brexit, it's for all of us to decide."
In 2016, he had said: “On balance, I think we will be better off out”, and that without radical change the UK was “heading for a long era of low growth”.
Of course if a turkey votes for Christmas then that is on them and they need to live with the consequences.
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Post by steppenwolf on Nov 10, 2022 13:46:06 GMT
It was perfectly clear to the likes of Lord Wolfson (who supported Brexit) that it would mean that fewer unskilled/low paid workers would be let into the country. The reason for this is that access to cheap labour had lowered productivity (which is measured on pay) and meant that our own unskilled work force were losing their jobs and being replaced by immigrants who were subsidised by the government (in-work benefits). Everyone with a brain cell knew that this was part of the reason for Brexit - and it's actually one part of Brexit that is going to plan.
So for Wolfson to start complaining is puzzling.
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Post by totheleft3 on Nov 10, 2022 15:41:10 GMT
Sorry wolfey can you point out where are unskilled labourers were losing out to immigrants.
And the in work benefits are for the British worker has well for the immigrants
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Post by Pacifico on Nov 10, 2022 17:24:01 GMT
He is as free as anyone to campaign for more immigration - not sure what the relevance is to Brexit as we currently have more immigration now than we had when we were in the EU.
What he seems to want is more low paid/low skilled immigration so that his business can keep wages low - not something I would have thought the average worker in the UK would support.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2022 19:53:09 GMT
It was perfectly clear to the likes of Lord Wolfson (who supported Brexit) that it would mean that fewer unskilled/low paid workers would be let into the country. The reason for this is that access to cheap labour had lowered productivity (which is measured on pay) and meant that our own unskilled work force were losing their jobs and being replaced by immigrants who were subsidised by the government (in-work benefits). Everyone with a brain cell knew that this was part of the reason for Brexit - and it's actually one part of Brexit that is going to plan. So for Wolfson to start complaining is puzzling. CEO of Next: "I think in respect of immigration, it's definitely not the Brexit that I wanted, or indeed, many of people who voted Brexit wanted," |
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Post by steppenwolf on Nov 11, 2022 8:29:24 GMT
Sorry wolfey can you point out where are unskilled labourers were losing out to immigrants. And the in work benefits are for the British worker has well for the immigrants When we were in the EU many of the jobs weren't even advertised in the UK. The employers knew perfectly well that the wages/conditions being offered were not acceptable to UK workers. You need to remember that most of the countries that the immigrants were coming from had average wages that are a small fraction of those in the UK. In-work benefits are offered according to need. Immigrants who arrive with only the clothes on their back automatically go to the front of the queue. |
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Post by Pacifico on Nov 11, 2022 8:34:40 GMT
The Torygraph highlights this morning what Wolfson's problem is - he isn't prepared to pay enough.
In Rotherham Next are paying £9.80 an hour, but it seems Next is having trouble filling vacancies. Nearby, Asda is offering £10.10 an hour to pack online shopping at its store in town, or £12.64 to be a shop assistant.
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Post by oracle75 on Nov 13, 2022 10:38:19 GMT
The Torygraph highlights this morning what Wolfson's problem is - he isn't prepared to pay enough. In Rotherham Next are paying £9.80 an hour, but it seems Next is having trouble filling vacancies. Nearby, Asda is offering £10.10 an hour to pack online shopping at its store in town, or £12.64 to be a shop assistant. Could it be that fewer people are buying more clothes but everyone has to eat? That is the effect of a recession. |
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Post by Pacifico on Nov 13, 2022 11:59:10 GMT
The Torygraph highlights this morning what Wolfson's problem is - he isn't prepared to pay enough. In Rotherham Next are paying £9.80 an hour, but it seems Next is having trouble filling vacancies. Nearby, Asda is offering £10.10 an hour to pack online shopping at its store in town, or £12.64 to be a shop assistant. Could it be that fewer people are buying more clothes but everyone has to eat? That is the effect of a recession. What has that to do with the market price for labour?. If Next can only survive by paying poverty wages then perhaps its a business we could do without. |
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Post by oracle75 on Nov 13, 2022 17:23:22 GMT
Could it be that fewer people are buying more clothes but everyone has to eat? That is the effect of a recession. What has that to do with the market price for labour?. If Next can only survive by paying poverty wages then perhaps its a business we could do without. And how does this add to growth? I am not sure the UK can afford to stand on such a moral high ground. |
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Post by Pacifico on Nov 13, 2022 17:32:55 GMT
What has that to do with the market price for labour?. If Next can only survive by paying poverty wages then perhaps its a business we could do without. And how does this add to growth? I am not sure the UK can afford to stand on such a moral high ground. You want companies that can only survive on poverty pay? - what does that add to growth as most of their employees will need their wages topping up by the State. |
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Post by oracle75 on Nov 14, 2022 8:01:09 GMT
And how does this add to growth? I am not sure the UK can afford to stand on such a moral high ground. You want companies that can only survive on poverty pay? - what does that add to growth as most of their employees will need their wages topping up by the State. I want companies which can compete in the global marketplace as expected in a capitalist economy. Anyway Next has done well enough since it bought Gap in 2021. |
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Post by Pacifico on Nov 14, 2022 8:26:35 GMT
You want companies that can only survive on poverty pay? - what does that add to growth as most of their employees will need their wages topping up by the State. I want companies which can compete in the global marketplace as expected in a capitalist economy. Anyway Next has done well enough since it bought Gap in 2021.
using a business model that apparently relies on poverty pay... So not convinced that is what we should be aiming for I'm afraid. |
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Post by Dubdrifter on Nov 20, 2022 10:15:09 GMT
What The People voted for and what the Tories failed to deliver … and many Labour/Opposition Parties refused to honour … isn’t the Brexit we got from traitors like Wolfson … Wolfson by name … wolf-son by nature, heritage and privilege, eh?
As usual the British public are being blamed for the failure of the fast track efficient/no-nonsense Brexit we expected and deserved after 40 years of sufferance and marginalisation … All we got was bad management Tories and Bremoaner saboteurs in Authority failing to deliver … and refusing to deliver … creating red tape chaos as they bowed and scraped and took their 30 Judas shekels from the tribal Mafia that said “This is Hotel California - you can check out (of the EU) … but you can never LEAVE.”
Where do these Tories get the impression there is a block on immigrant labour to pick crops in UK fields? (that’s a World problem now)… immigrants are flooding in without paperwork, visas and permits under Tory Brexit misrule … when you put illegal economic migrants up in 4* hotels for years .. instead of renovated military camps ( that indigenous Brits complained about for decades and .Gov ignored our moaning) … suddenly the MSM says they are clearly not good enough for BLACK PRIVILEGE immigrant refugees - who were allowed/happy to live in squalor in France … one of the richest Nations in the EU with major influence and power to look after them .. cloth, house and provide jobs for their immigrants they let in through their broken borders … and now try and shove humanitarian responsibility onto British People (not our Government) to look after them.
After Pritti(awful) Patel puts them up in 4* luxury … whose going to swap that for badly paid jobs with appalling wet cold conditions in farmers crowded barrack rooms in Norfolk and Lincolnshire? … or even work under an atrocious bullying manager at places like NEXT.
Easier to live on benefit handouts … and riot b4 the gullible Press about ‘hardship’ when Authority come to their senses and decide the price is too high entertaining these ‘spongers’ in 4* accomodation.
Even immigrants are getting pickier today as to the level of exploitation and poor work conditions they are willing to tolerate.
If it’s uneconomic for the farmers to pick their produce … now being left rotting in fields …. blame the supermarkets - not BREXIT
Farmers have been squeezed and bullied on price by supermarkets and Tories for years … both competing to see how much they can force farmers to beg to them on their knees to be a bulk UK supplier … “either comply with our demands … or we fly in the goods cheaper from abroad” … markets run by an anti-Brexit Mafia … that don’t believe in fair trade … but rigged market WOKE subsidies … unFair Trade.
Most Fair Trade produce doesn’t compete with UK producers … but foreign suppliers ship in competing goods from Europe and further abroad these days with a label saying “Grown in the UK” … and nobody check or complains. The French kick up HELL if Britain produces Champagne ….
Globalists and their Tory stooges orchestrated UK food shortages by imposing Sanctions on Russia … The Soros Posse and the EU/NATO secretly invested millions $$$$ destabilising the Ukraine region politically and militarily for 8 years … letting their MSM describe this area as the “grain bowl of the World” … It wasn’t known as such before the war … so nobody expected Ukraine’s alliance with Western Fascism would trigger grain and other Stock Exchange food resource market price surges … to create panic buying …and drive crippling inflation and recession in a few short months.
Food shortages are being ‘engineered’ right now by the sort of crooks that run Israel, America, the Tory Party and the EU.
WE LEFT THE EU … so why are Tories still fully supporting every EU Policy and initiative that Brussels dictates??
Our Admin has totally ignored our edict to stop this association with duplicitous criminals.
I’m sure there are honest countries and people we can trade with happily in the World … who don’t impose draconian conditions on “trade” … and respect workers Rights, sovereignty and border security … and run under good humane, efficient non-bullying management conditions. …. Maybe we should create such a World Co-operative that just trades under those guidelines … of mutual respect … like we had in our Commonwealth days? … before we were duped to ‘get in bed’ with the likes of the EVIL EU+NATO - and be poodle to U.S./Israeli dictats.
Time for change … NO MORE GOING BACKWARDS/NO MORE DEFUNDING ALLIANCES … remove Bremoaner traitors and fake Brexiteers from positions of Power and Influence. Remove Tories and Labour from our Political Landscape.
Both not fit for purpose … VOTE for UK-controlled Parties … not stooges and poodles to foreign interest groups.
Serve the Majority … and respect the Minority. ….. but NEVER hand control to the Minority. … that is what has happened here.
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