UK may need to hire foreign workers.

[Swampy]

I've said for over a decade that, with declining working populations all over the world, the labor shortage will mean put upward pressure on wages.

[Sir John]

There are maybe a billion or two people, maybe more, in this world that would drop everything and cross the borders of the Western world and flood the nations into poverty worse than from which they came.

Nobody knows that more than the USA! "Open Borders" sounds nice but totally impractacal and indeed suicidal.

Look at what is happening in the EU!

SJ

[Swampy]

Open borders unconditionally, yes; but not unconditionally could work.

[Sir John]

Then we can have a never ending debate about the "conditions".

And what happens when an ex cruise liner with 5000 'refugees' arrives in Tampa or San Diego harbour?

.....and another, and another, and.....

SJ