Educating the Home Secretary
Apparently the Education Secretary is to “fight” the Home Office, which wants to try to limit immigration by reducing the number of foreign students in the UK.
The fact that this is even necessary is shocking. Education is one of the great British exports which not only keeps universities’ heads above water, but also makes billions for the economy and produces millions of successful foreigners who are anglophiles.
But so obsessed is this government with immigration it is willing to bankrupt higher education for a slightly better headline figure.
Here’s a suggestion, foreign students are not immigrants because they can’t stay here permanently, they are education tourists, so take them out of the immigration figures.
It is easy, sensible, statistically justifiable and produces great headlines.
So we can happily expect this bunch of right wing morons, who continually try to out do each other to seduce racists, to fight like rabid cats in a sack over a worse why of doing things.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media