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James Annan
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On 2004-12-12, Steve <[email protected]> wrote:
> James Annan wrote:
>>
>> That's fine so long as the UK can import enough qualified
>> workers from 2nd/3rd world countries to fill the
>> various research and professional jobs that the local
>> population are no longer capable of doing. However,
>> most of those who are hostile to the public funding
>> of education are also hostile to mass immigration, at
>> least until they find their local hospital under-staffed.
>>
> Doesn't that imply that the UK is still a first world country?
Well without being too pedantic about the pigenholing,
there is certainly a rough pecking order that places the
UK above say India and below the USA in terms of brain drain.
James, in Japan
> James Annan wrote:
>>
>> That's fine so long as the UK can import enough qualified
>> workers from 2nd/3rd world countries to fill the
>> various research and professional jobs that the local
>> population are no longer capable of doing. However,
>> most of those who are hostile to the public funding
>> of education are also hostile to mass immigration, at
>> least until they find their local hospital under-staffed.
>>
> Doesn't that imply that the UK is still a first world country?
Well without being too pedantic about the pigenholing,
there is certainly a rough pecking order that places the
UK above say India and below the USA in terms of brain drain.
James, in Japan
