The UK points-based immigration system is more ‘game show’ than gainful for UK cultural and business life.

The new immigration shake-up proposes sweeping reforms as to how overseas workers will be tested with regard to their suitability and cultural fit pending a permanent move to the UK.

Many of the changes to UK immigration laws in the past have had an adverse effect on UK economic and business sectors. And the latest proposals are in extremely poor taste too. 

Immigration Minister Phil Woolas and the entire Labour cabinet seem to have lost complete touch with the public they are claiming to serve.  And that is a public that is made up, in part, of immigrants.

Many immigrants just one year ago fought the British government and won a high court action to prevent damaging immigration changes preventing them remaining in the UK. 

The people Mr Woolas keeps referring to as “immigrants” are hard working, talented, highly skilled professionals whom UK Plc has gone out of its way to attract to the country and whom the country needs to continue to function and  prosper. 

Many of the people Woolas is referring to are not only electoral voters but essential to contributing to keeping our schools, hospitals and businesses running. 

Every year the government comes up with another absurd idea on the subject of immigration reforms. This is extremely damaging to UK Plc and completely unpatriotic. 

The people who the latest proposal could potentially affect are continually having the goal posts moved on them.  Our Immigration Minister must start to understand overseas people working in the UK require stability, clear vision and a stable immigration policy.  Not a flaky, knee jerk leadership that brings a ‘headless chicken’ approach to policy. 

If UK Plc is serious about attracting the best skills and talent the world has to offer to help run the schools, hospitals and businesses we all rely on, then Woolas with his out-of-touch and out-of-date vision needs to leave well alone. He is tampering with an issue he clearly no longer properly understands. 

Perhaps it is Phil Woolas and his blinkered government cronies with their preposterous proposals who should all be deported pronto.