Forget Curry, Eat Mexican Instead

They want to import curry house workers from Bangladesh because of a shortage. What this means is more Muslims. For each and every curry house worker imported there could be a wife and several kids. Then the kids grow up and import a spouse from the sub continent and then they have several kids. Before you can shake a stick at McDonald's you're up to your ears in curry house workers. From the BBC website:

The Home Office is being urged to ease restrictions on migrant workers entering Britain from Bangladesh, to avert a crisis in the curry industry.

Curry houses are struggling to fill thousands of kitchen staff vacancies, says the Immigration Advisory Service.

For years, many staff in the UK's 9,000 curry restaurants have been recruited directly from Bangladesh.

But restrictions on the workers have been tighter since eastern Europeans were given employment rights.

In a further threat to the UK's curry industry, the cost of rice - one of the staple ingredients in the cuisine - is soaring on world markets.

Alex Waugh, director of the Rice Association, said prices had risen 60% year-on-year.
He said: "If you are a restaurant owner and you are buying a lot of rice you either reduce your margins or you put your prices up.

"A cost increase of that magnitude is going to feed through, and this will probably see the price of a curry increase."

It is thought the curry industry in the UK employs at least 50,000 people, with the majority of restaurants Bangladeshi-owned.

According to the IAS, restrictions on lower-skilled workers from outside the EU are causing a labour shortage so severe it could cause "irreparable damage" to the curry industry. It argues that attempts to get eastern Europeans to work in curry restaurants have failed because they do not have the "cultural sensitivity" required.

The IAS has written to the Immigration Minister, Liam Byrne, asking for the rules to be relaxed for catering workers from Bangladesh.

But government officials said they had no plans to review the current arrangements.

Let's hope they continue to have "no plans to review the current arrangements". I say eat Chinese, Mexican, Italian and to hell with the curry houses. They must have imported workers in the past so they will just have to find their workers from the existing population.

On the other hand I suppose we must bear in mind that only 50% of the Pakistani's are economically active. The rest are sponging off the taxpayers.

(cross posted with CommonSense)