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Dyson, the billionaire who backed Brexit, is worried that there aren't enough engineers in the UK.

Hah.

He also famously moved his manufacturing operations to Malaysia in 2003, resulting in the loss of 800 UK engineering jobs: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2860995/Dyson-production-...

800 manufacturing jobs, not 800 engineering jobs.

The number of people who I know only voted for brexit because of his nonsense campaign over vacuum cleaners and EU regulations, quite frankly I hope they go bust.

Part of the reason we don't have the people is because we rely on 'Europe' to provide everything.

Do we doubt 'Europe' exists or something?

Some people don't even question that the so-called "Europe" exists.

That's really confusing cause and effect. For some sectors we rely on 'Europe' but the cause is that talented individuals are often discouraged from training or staying in the UK. Nurses are a prime example of this issue

Why is that not a problem for the other EU member states?

And importing talent is bad because...

The UK has two problems:

1. We need lots of skilled people.

2. We have lots of people lacking skills.

Importing talent solves problem (1) (and grows the economy and is generally and genuinely a good thing). But problem (2) remains. Why not try to solve both at once?

We also have lots of skilled people missing work. All three problems are related, none are the root cause

Skilled at what?

Software development, for one. In the UK Computer Science is the STEM subject with the highest unemployment rate.

Are you saying that there are people in the UK who are skilled in software development, who cannot find jobs developing software? Or that there are people who have studied computer science (e.g. at university) and cannot find jobs developing software?

For people who voted out? Because it puts downward pressure on wages. As the head of the in campaign pointed out in a rare moment of lucidity:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/eureferendum/1218...

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