Campaign for an English Parliament

At the moment, the IT job market is being saturated by people flooding into the UK (and work is flowing off-shore).

Although there is a new work permits system now in operation, there is concern that a loophole still exists through the abuse of the Intra Company Transfer (ICT). Intra Company Transfer (ICT) work permits were originally intended to allow a company to bring into the UK an employee based outside the EU, without having to go through the time consuming hoops of advertising, when that employee has company-specific skills not available in the UK.

Unfortunately, these work permits are actually being obtained by a company in order to up-skill their overseas workers, which, more often than not, constitutes the preliminary stage of ‘off shoring’ their operations out of the UK completely

An English Parliament, based outside the City cesspit, would be able to take a more balanced, objective view of the activities of the banking sector. Westminster has a romantic attachment to the Banking sector. They still view it in 1940s terms. The banker was always considered to be the important person on the high street (like Dad’s Army’s Captain Mainwaring). Unfortunately, there’s now no high street branch. Instead you’ll be talking to someone thousands of miles away and in any case the bank is probably on a public sector life-support system. We need a fresh start. It is clear we need to reduce our dependence on this failing sector and move into manufacturing.

This is not an EU problem (don’t go blaming the Brussels bogeymen): it’s a British problem. The City of London is a delusional beast which still thinks it’s the centre of a world wide empire. ‘We can always offshore our Bad IT systems onto some former colony’. We have probably off-shored more work than any other European country. The City is a self serving and has no regard for the rest of England. City recklessness and speculation has caused our economy to crash with little hope of it recovering. Even with huge injections of public money the banks are still ‘offshoring’ IT related work (to save money) and still paying its top ranking staff bonuses.

I have written a song about offshoring, which is now on You Tube, called ‘Unsure/Offshore (where did your job go?). Why not view it and send a message to the London elite. We need English jobs for English people.