Speeding

Actually, it's already being done. In Wales they have changed the
qualification criteria for Assembly Learning Grant to allow people who
have been resident in the UK for some time, and now living in Wales, to
get the funding. This is allowing people with skills learnt overseas,
who have unrecognised credentials, to get their competence ratified by
obtaining a UK certificate. In Glan Hafren College in Cardiff the most
over-subscribed course is plumbing. The course starting Sept. 2004 is
full, Sept 2005 50% full.

Expect there to be a crash in the plumbing employment market similar to
that in IT in 18 months or so.

 

Damn right. When a man's got an MCSE in dicking about with Character Map,
he's got something to boast about...

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Does that make me middle class then?

 

(SteveH) wrote in message

Well you can add me to that list as well then.

I don't think you've met *any* 'assylum seekers' (sic) and are basing
your views on the media's portrayal of the situation.

 

It's either than or you're suffering from uncurable liberalism.

 

I am very liberal. I make no apology for it.
Cost a fortune in WD40.

 

Over my (counts) 14 years in retail, I've seen all sorts, and reckon the
number of immigrants I've booted out of shops is disproportionate to the
number of them in the UK.

 

Yeah but how did you know they were immigrants?
After all who isn't an immigrant in the UK?

 

Mmm you're wrong for once I reckon. At his end of Retail I'm betting the
experience is pretty regular.

 

Eastern European accents / poor English etc. tend to give the game away.

 

Ginge wrote

So you employ them off the books. Not then an issue is it and a damn
sight cheaper without having to pay all that ni and shite.

 

Oh come on! That's just stupid. They could just be Scottish, geordie or
Welsh.

 

Me you ****.
OTOH I am a N.I. immigrant.

 

(SteveH) wrote in message

And based on booting people out of shops you know whether they're
immigrants. How? Did they speak funny?

 

Depends on your definition of immigrant really.

 

see other post; he may have dealt with a lot of asylum seekers; but...
how would he have known they were asylum seekers and not students or
holiday makers?

 

Go back into your families history. Most of us are from immigrants.
Mine were Danish.

 

No, they sounded Eastern European. They must be immigrants.

 

Look up there. It's obvious, they talk funny etc.!!

 

They were trying to buy sweets with vouchers as a distraction?