| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Call centres outside Chiswick ... and the UK! | |
| Posted by: | Malcolm Peltu | |
| Date/Time: | 29/04/05 10:44:00 |
| I think this interesting discussion illustrates the long-term irrelevance of much that is being said in the election campaign. We are living in a globalised capitalist (or communo-capitalist in China) free market based on the reengineering of business and financial processes to allow the optimisation of profits and freedom for the big global business players. This depends on having a free market in labour, real (through physical migration) and virtual (through the use of global IT and comms networks). Business profits depend on immigration labour (both high and low skilled often willing to work for less money) as much on the use of cheaper (and less protected) labour in their own countries. That is why the CBI opposes the Conservative's policy of capping immigration. This global freedom also extends to moving tax offshore, thereby taking away significant tax revenues from some nation states, like Britain (both in terms of personal and corporate tax havens and more recently moving Internet retailing to tax havens like Guernsey). I don't believe anyone can predict the outcome of these dynamics or that any national goivernment (other than perhaps America and China) can on their own control the course of events. They are unleashing such a complex set of social, economic, environmental and political dynamics that anything could emerge. |