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Recent Comments

• Mark Valladares
  Jana, A fair point, and I perhaps didn’t express that precisely enough, although the financial incentive to move from, say Nigeria, to the UK is rather gre...
• Chloe
  Mark; If a Nigerian care worker in her early twenties can travel 4000 miles to work for just above the minimum wage, & reside in an HMO locally near the hos...
• Jana
  @Mark Valladares “ The hospitality industry in the South East struggles to find staff, yet housing is so expensive that nobody could credibly be expected to ...
• Pawel Urbanski
  @Nonconformistradical - I think that's a big part of it. Everything in schools points at university, and those not heading that way get remarkably little attent...
• Nonconformistradical
  @Pawel Urbanski "That is the disconnect nobody talks about: the jobs are there, the young people are there, and the pipeline between them barely functions. Bef...