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UK minister wants unemployed Brit youths to be sent to India | British Cabinet Minister Vince Cable has stirred
controversy by suggesting that unemployed young Britons should be sent to India to find work, and jokingly added, that he might get a 'slap over the wrists' from
Prime Minister David Cameron for saying so. He also said it was time to end the
one-way flow of skilled workers from India to the UK and claimed that British
school-leavers and university graduates should be able to go in the opposite direction
to India , where the economy has boomed in recent years. “I will probably get
a slap over the wrists from the headmaster in the morning, but I believe there
should be a freer flow of labour,” the Daily Mail quoted Cable, as saying. He
claimed that skilled young employees in India earn about two pounds an hour, less
than half of Britain ’s minimum wage of 5.93 pounds per hour, though the cost
of living is much cheaper. Both countries are now equal partners and there is
no reason why the exchange of skilled workers should not be two-way, especially
bearing in mind the depressed state of the British jobs market, he added. The
David Cameron government had planned to cut annual immigration to 'tens of
thousands',
rather than the hundreds of thousands. Cable had clashed with Cameron on this
issue earlier as well. One prominent Indian guest at the dinner ten days ago,
which was chaired by president of the Indian Journalists Association, Ashis Ray,
described Cable’s proposal as ‘unprecedented’. Cable said that, during a recent
visit to India , IT tycoon Azim Premji told him that since Britain has high youth
unemployment, they should send people to India to be trained in cutting edge
technology
companies so they could go back better qualified for work back home. Praising
this idea, Cable said it should be implemented as early as possible.
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