2y ago

Brexit Britain’s Got No Talent: Visa scheme gets just three applicants

www.theneweuropean.co.uk

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Who'd have thought that a work force with a large immigrant population would diminish when we kick all the immigrants out 🙃 we'll still have medical staff, despite a large portion of them being from Eurasia, we'll still have people willing to do the jobs we don't want to because the UK is British and strong now, right? Right guys? We can have blue passports back... And.. we'll make our own trade deals! With America, and Australia! We're still important, aren't we?
I hate this country I live in, sometimes. Our politicians and older generations don't seem to realise the last 200 years of history have happened.
- Literally no country ever benefitted from expelling foreigners.
  
  Feudal Japan kind of did
- Passport colour is only a recommendation anyway, Croatia apparently redesigned their passport when joining EU and maintained the blue colour. Was that an argument for brexit?
Nobody has trust in our government. The way they've treated immigrants (both legal and otherwise) is abhorrent. I'm not surprised that nobody wants to come here.
Lmao, the UK is like last in the list for anyone of the calibre that qualifies for this. The 3 applicants they got probably got accepted elsewhere and didn't even move to the UK.
- I can say with relative certainty that at least some applicants went for this visa as a long shot because they had other reasons to move to the UK and this gave a more flexible visa than the Skilled Worker visa (like the ability to change jobs without getting re-sponsored).
  It was never gonna be the main reason for anyone to move here and completely misunderstood how academics make decisions about their location.
When the scheme was launched in May 2021, the then-home secretary Priti Patel said: “Winners of these awards have reached the pinnacle of their career and they have so much to offer the UK. These important changes will give them the freedom to come and work in our world-leading arts, sciences, music, and film industries as we build back better.”
Patel may have thought that, but the plan had a fatal flaw – the “best and the brightest” did not want to come to post-Brexit Britain. Only three applications have been received in total, RPN found, all of which have been successful. Two of these applied in 2022 with the other applicant applying this year.
100% of those who take this offer are successful! Nice job Team Brits!
Winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, chemistry, economic science and medicine, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, the Fields Medal and the Turing Award were all eligible to apply as well as award recipients working in music, film, TV, theatre, arts and literature.
Seems like a really small pool to draw from.
From empire to shit stain. No offense intended. I also live in a former empire turned to shit. You can guess by knowing that I hate an orange man with great passion.

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