"One reason the UK has a substantial skills shortage is because hordes of professionals are
emigrating because of all the immigrants.
And the immigrants coming in are not, by and large, physics teachers or nuclear engineers."
no they're people who clean offices, empty the bins, work in cafe's, dig the roads, pick the crops, drive the buses and taxis, do nightshift nursing, provide carers for the old, work on building sites - all those useless sort of jobs
all the jobs the average Brit won't do as it requires hard work - we'd much rather be in the media, or software designers or (laothsome) bankers and lawyers or physics teachers or nuclear engineers
we'd be way up s*** creek without immigrants TBH