Well, you are wasting your time by arguing
with someone on the internet over the UK governments stance on immigration. I'm pointing out what the counter argument to what your saying is.

To go back to your last comment "sometimes risks have to be taken", but not on the level of an individual person coming to the UK, the immigration system does not work like that, indeed, no immigration system could ever work like that.

Lots of people come to the UK, we are by no means a closed country, we actually have a very easy to abuse system, which is being tightened up a bit, but it's still not as good as the one set out in Oz, which although tough, works and is, as fair editfar as these things can be, pretty fair.

And once again, you have "general" skills, but so do the hundreds of thousands of british teenagers who leave college every single year in exactly your position. And since they are already here, the argument I'm putting forward is that surely they should have first dibs on the unskilled jobs that you will be looking for.

If we get to the stage in the UK where we are desperate for waiting staff in cafes, then your skill set will be the one that the immigration officials will be looking for, but at the moment they aren't.

Now I realise that you are looking at this from the inside, but I'm trying to explain dispassionately why what you want is not reasonable.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 8 May 2009, 16:06, Reply)