Jess Phillips : I’ve met high earners with ‘literally no discernible skills’
If we end up with this policy on the movement of people you’d better gear up to do all those jobs someone else does for you now – including caring for aged relatives, doing your own ironing and looking after yourself when you get sick. With very tight labour markets and some of the tightest in relation to health and care in rural settings if we impose a £30,000 policy for workers then I fear disaster. That is unless we start paying those working in some of these professions, particularly care, what they’re actually worth! This story tells us:
Labour MP Jess Phillips takes aim at politicians considering imposing a £30,000 pay threshold for EU workers to be considered skilled, saying: ‘I have met many people who earn way more than £30,000 and have literally no discernible skills, not even one.’ The MP for Birmingham Yardley says the post-Brexit immigration proposal was ‘insulting’ to the care workers, nurses and teachers who live in her electorate. ‘I have definitely met some very rich people who earn huge amounts of money who I wouldn’t let hold my pint if I had to go and vote while in the bar,’ she says.