“The communities secretary, Eric Pickles, is to make a UK curry college to teach British workers the secret of perfect pakoras, a showpiece of the government’s integration strategy to be published shortly.
Pickles’s “curry college”, as it is being called, would see the government backing a school to train British people from all backgrounds to become chefs specialising in Indian food as an answer to the crisis in the £3.2bn curry industry triggered by the Home Office’s ban on bringing in chefs from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
The scheme is directly in line with Conservative policy to make deep cuts in immigration numbers on the basis “that we do not need to attract people to do jobs that could be carried out by British citizens, given the right training and support”.”
We know Eric is a huge curry fan – but is that really a basis for government policy…?
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