Where Brexit Hurts: The European Nurses and Doctors Leaving London

There was a TV programme the other night about an employment agency in SE UK that could not find enough British workers to do the work it had on its books, and how Brexit had made things worse as many immigrants the agency was previously placing in work had returned their home countries. My thoughts on this were: those jobs were not paying enough to attract labour from the local market, but immigrants were prepared to accept lower wages; thus, the jobs were actually not viable without cheap foreign labour. This looks like a ponzi scheme to me. Does it ever end? Is the plan to continue with immigration for ever? Going by the arguments of the pro-immigration side that immigrants are net contributors then surely we should aim to have the entire population of the world living in the UK? What population do we want in the UK - 80 million? 100 million? 500 million? I would like an answer - I've noticed you never ever get one from a Remainer, because the truth is there is no plan, and whilst in the EU the UK had no control over immigration.

If ending the ponzi scheme and paying enough to attract British workers means we have to get a bit poorer, so be it, I am happy to do so to hold the forces of globalism at bay just a short while longer. I like diversity, and I want it to remain - how dull and disappointing it would be to live in a world where every country is made up of the same undifferentiated global populace and culture.

Or we just continue the ponzi by attracting more workers from outside the EU, e.g. Commonwealth countries, with which the UK has strong historic ties - we just get to choose the highly skilled and temporary labour we want, rather than having no choice over who comes, as is the case whilst the UK remains in the EU.

I wonder how telemedicine can change and help situations like these; whereby medical providers are more accessible through telecommunications.