Outgoing Domino’s Pizza boss Lance Batchelor is being attacked from all sides for saying that the UK needs to relax immigration rules so he can find suitable staff. Ex M&S and now Ocado boss Sir Stuart Rose said the same thing. They are spot on and “fake Tory” immigration minister Mark Harper is taking prize bollocks for attacking the pizza fellow.
Batchelor says that Domino’s could hire another 1.000 drivers and pizza toppers tomorrow but native Brits won’t take the jobs and tighter immigration rules mean there are fewer foreigners ( who will take them) around.
Harper, who after Oxford went to work for big 4 accountants KPMG before meeting up with his old Uni pal Call Me Dave and becoming a Southern England MP, disagrees with the analysis of the real life businessmen who have actually run businesses creating thousands of jobs. So who do you believe?
Being a fake Tory Harper says Batchelor should see that “market forces” are telling him that he has to up his pay rates. You will note the use of the word market forces – that is to make you and I think Harper is really a Tory. But of course market forces for those in the bottom quartile of paid employment are distorted massively by…..er Government of course. I refer to welfare.
Harper is fully aware that there are folks who regard welfare as an alternative lifestyle option. Not only is life on welfare a viable career choice but Government makes it seem an even attractive one by taxing those on relatively low wages.
Market forces are therefore so horrifically distorted that companies are unable to employ folks on wage levels which allow them to make an adequate return on capital. If Mr Harper had any real world experience in business he would know that any entrepreneur would this say “why should I risk my capital ( or that of my shareholders) expanding when I know I will earn only a marginal return ( at best) thanks to the way Government policy distorts market forces and wage levels”
I conclude either that Mr Harper does not understand basic economics and business which given that he is an MP in Call Me Dave’s party is perfectly plausible. Or that he is just another politician wanting to talk tough on not letting in any more darkies because it plays well with the Daily Mail.
Either way he is a useless parasite who is talking bollocks.