Let in Belarussian brickies, not South African virologists
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1725927,00.html
Robbing poor countries of their most precious resouce - a qualified
labour force - makes no moral or economic sense
Simon Jenkins
Wednesday March 8, 2006
The Guardian
The government's proposal to award points to immigrant applicants is
sound. So is its refusal to set a limit on the number of entrants. But
the scoring system is outrageous. Since the parliamentary Labour party
no longer considers itself institutionally liberal, the House of Lords
must once again remind the government of the meaning of the word. I try
to imagine the childhood of our dear home secretary under his father,
the Treasury statistician Sir Otto Clarke, patron saint of control
freaks. I see father and son in conclave on the Titanic, refusing to
abandon ship since nobody has calculated the closing speed of the
iceberg, the specific gravity of the water, or why a =A36bn EDS computer
for allocating lifeboat space has not yet been delivered.
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