Over the week-end it was announced by the British government that they would be imposing a UK immigration cap on the highly skilled migrant route. This cap seemed to stay true to the party’s pledge to limit immigration to the tens of thousands, down from the hundreds of thousands. This it has transpired is not exactly true, as Theresa May has announed that it will not affect the British economy and in fact only equates to a reduction of 5%.

This will no doubt please a lot of the businesses in the Uk that had voiced concerns that the limit would have an adverse effect on the UK’s recovery after the recession. The dreaed recession it seems is the key to everything nowadays and it can be quite safely attributed for every ill-will or bad thing happening in the world. Without the credit-crunch it would appear that the world would no-longer have the scapegoat that has become the personable face of everything bad.

As the only thing that cannot possibly be attributed to the UK’s economy, multi-million pound footballers, crash out of the world cup, England it appears will settle for the notion that a reduction of 5% of the tier 1 UK visa category will be meaty enough yet not to much to offset the UK’s recovery after the recession.

As the coalition government continue to make what they term as necessary changes, the British public must ask themselves what the purpose of this actual change is, as the reduction of the numbers being granted this UK visa will not even be reduced by more than 1000 people.