Who Goes Home?

During her reply to the Queen’s speech, and in subsequent TV interviews, Harriet Harman has spent much time criticising certain aspects of George Osborne’s 6 billion pounds worth of cuts. In particular, the cut in funding of 10,000 extra university places.

Labour’s policy of educating all of Britain’s young men and women to university level is having an unforeseen and significant effect on our society. It isn’t really the costs of educating millions to university standards, but the end product – ‘immigration’. Put simply, Labour have created the opposite of a skills shortage, they have fashioned an over qualified workforce. Too many of our graduates are not prepared, and even ill prepared for manual or repetitive labour.

We now have a situation where more and more menial tasks are performed, not by British workers, but by Asians and in particular eastern European migrants. Britain’s youth considers itself exceedingly over qualified for such work. In the last government, minister after minister, backbencher after backbencher informed us that we needed immigration to fill the slack in our labour market. Yet in reality, and with 8 million not working, and many too well qualified, there were shortages of cleaners, fruit-pickers and building labourers to name a few.

There was a time, back in the 60s and 70s and even up until the early 90s when less than 15% of our children went to university, but there were very few skill shortages, in fact our job centre’s were full of unemployed graduates and degenerates from sink estates as Labour kept telling the Tory government. There has always been, since records began, a shortage of jobs at all skill levels, from Doctors to Dustmen. Education is just like any other market, it will increase as the demand grows and decrease as the need reduces. 

All Labour’s forced student-place increase will do is create graduates who cannot lower themselves to fill the menial tasks often offered prior to securing a better job. This in turn will leave thousands of young people out of work for several years, which as we all know results in permanent unemployment. Worse still is the reliance on foreign labour when industries such as construction and agriculture begin to grow again.

This new government is right to stop the propogation of over qualified labour, instead it needs to concentrate on producing literate and numerate young people who can replace foreign workers. We don’t need hundreds of thousands of graduates with useless degrees for which there are no jobs, our universities need to be filled with scientists, biologists and engineers of British nationality, there should be little or no room for foreign students in these subjects. We need quality graduates in the above subjects and less second rate practitioners of sports and media studies.

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