The government had resisted calls from retail and freight business groups for a short-term relaxation of immigration rules while a larger UK workforce was developed.
Initially, British policy toward indigenous workers was little different from the authoritarian VOC, but as the century progressed, some improvements were made.
From American grey squirrels displacing European red ones, to Japanese knotweed displacing just about everything everywhere, their purported negative effects on nature are there for all to see.
Such a bounty upon the importation of Scotch flax in England would have been too great a discouragement to the native produce of the southern part of the united kingdom.
Nearly 20 years after the Suez Canal had first been completed, which granted the British the quickest possible journey time between the home Islands and India by way across the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.