By David Kamioner | February 19, 2020
In a governmental system without the checks and balances inherent in the U.S. system, the party in power can enact legislation far easier and quicker than it can in the American form of government.
That’s just what British Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson is doing over immigration. With a Brexit win and an election landslide under his belt, Johnson is now free to implement his governing program. Immigration, as promised, is one of his first priorities.
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On Tuesday he unveiled a plan that would institute an Australian-style points system that would benefit potential British citizens (technically, British subjects) who have what it takes to succeed in the U.K.
The immigrants would have to pass rigorous standards in relation to skills, professions, qualifications, and the ability to earn good salaries. These skills would be given numerical grades and those earning the requisite points would be allowed entry and residence.
The goal is to make Britain a haven for the world’s best and brightest who may now live in regimes or under governments where they can not achieve their full economic and personal potentials. It also would mean, given the highly skilled immigrants targeted in the plan, that it would be unlikely that such people would initially or eventually become a burden on the British taxpayer.
We in the U.S. can only envy such a plan and the present ease of its passage into law.
The law would not apply to the more than 3 million European Union citizens now in the U.K. But starting on January 1, 2021 it would apply to all seeking residence in the U.K.
The plan actually lowers the educational requirements for permanent residence from a college degree to the British equivalent of a high school diploma. That is to attract skilled technical labor and other industrial workers who may not have gone to college but nevertheless possess needed skills in the British economy.
It is Johnson’s stated goal to make the U.K. an economic powerhouse that attracts all who desire a good life in the U.K., but who also can bring the skills to thrive and prosper in a highly automated and technical economy… Jolly good show.
This piece originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.
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