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(not satire – it’s the Tories!)
David Cameron is destroying one of the UK’s biggest exports just so he can win back a few more votes from UKIP.
The UK Border Agency has increased the number of face-to-face interviews with potential students hoping to study in Britain, to check if their English is good enough to study here.
But English language learning for international students is one of the UK’s biggest exports, and earns the UK more money than the banking sector.
The UK earns around £28bn from overseas students in the English language learning sector ranging from universities to small English language colleges.
By comparison, the UK earns around £19bn for financial services and £20bn for the automotive industry.
Obviously Cameron doesn’t care about UK industry. All he wants is to claw back a few more votes from UKIP.
But why did Clegg help Cameron to introduce this amazingly stupid policy which has massively damaged a very important UK industry?
Answers on a postcard please to:
Rt Hon Nick Clegg MP House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AATel: 020 7219 3000
nick.clegg.mp@parliament.uk @Nick_Clegg
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A friend of mine runs a guest house, eu students stay at the guest house. Paid for out of student loans from the British tax payer. Most of them don’t return home, they tell us they wont return home ,but stay here to work , then bring over their families. Or once qualified they disappear without paying back their loan. So strict controls are needed.
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog.
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The answer on a postcard is that they’ve got knees and like to exercise them
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Or they’re more interested in their own jobs than anyone else’s, or it is actually a sensible decision for reasons we haven’t considered.
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Because Clegg is a federalist idiot, maybe hew would prefer we all spoke french instead.
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“But English language learning for international students is one of the UK’s biggest exports, and earns the UK more money than the banking sector. The UK earns around £28bn from overseas students in the English language learning sector ranging from universities to small English language colleges.”
You misread the article Tom – £28bn was the total from ALL overseas students, not just English language students. Those data are also 10 years out of date.
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Reblogged this on Ned Hamson Second Line View of the News and commented:
Perceived political advantage and self-delusion is as close a fit as Cameron’s hand in Clegg’s pocket!
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Reblogged this on Vox Political.
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rialbynot – the figures are for foreign students coming to the UK. Who are actively being prevented or discouraged from coming here by the coalition government..
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Reblogged this on My Blog.
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most “students” are economic migrants.
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‘Cps Clegg is thick?
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*’Cos”
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I’m not disagreeing with the principle, just the numbers.
“the figures are for foreign students coming to the UK” – Correct
“The UK earns around £28bn from overseas students in the English language learning sector” – Incorrect
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I can’t help seeing David Steel in David Owen’s pocket on Spitting Image when I see these two together.
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