A number of low skilled workers were affected by the European influx. Correct.
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However, the UK economy benefitted from EU migration, generating more work than idle Brits could handle.
Brexit - what a pile of poo.
Brexit - what a pile of poo.
Other news: Lots of items going up in price. Calor gas, tinned tomatoes.
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Because that is the way a single market in goods, services, money and people works, and it is to be embraced by those who are not narrow-minded, backward-looking, isolationist, insecure, and frightened and distrustful of people from other countries. It is to be welcomed by those with confidence in the UKs ability to compete, to cooperate and to prosper in a union of equals.
Which are all the reasons why you, and people like you, are so opposed to it.
It wasn’t when we joined.
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Captain Nemesis
So?
Things change - they always have and they always will, and the changes which have happened in the EC/EU have been:
a) Consistent with a known and desirable trajectory
b) Fully participated in by democratically elected governments and parliaments
c) To be welcomed by anyone who is motivated by spirits of openness, friendship, and cooperation instead of insularity, fear, and suspicion.
Things change - they always have and they always will, and the changes which have happened in the EC/EU have been:
a) Consistent with a known and desirable trajectory
b) Fully participated in by democratically elected governments and parliaments
c) To be welcomed by anyone who is motivated by spirits of openness, friendship, and cooperation instead of insularity, fear, and suspicion.
Yep, and that’s why we voted to leave. Our prerogative.
As opposed to brexiteers who are xenophobic/racist and don't care about such things...
Generations to come will hate them for what they have done!
Define low skilled. Brickies? Plasterers? Plumbers? Electricians? Carpenters? Painters? Site workers? Hospitality workers? Nurses? Care home workers? Car washers? Nail bar workers? Hospitality workers? Cleaners? Shouldn’t they be the ones we should have been protecting instead of bettering the lives of European low skilled workers? Seems like us joining the EU ****ed it for them. Was that the intention?
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Captain Nemesis
Yep.
They changed in a way that was unwelcome to people who are narrow-minded, backward-looking, isolationist, insecure, and frightened and distrustful of people from other countries.
You voted to leave not because of the changes per se, but because you are narrow-minded, backward-looking, isolationist, insecure, and frightened and distrustful of people from other countries.
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Captain Nemesis
Brickies? Plasterers? Plumbers? Electricians? Carpenters? Painters? Site workers? Hospitality workers? Nurses? Care home workers? Car washers? Nail bar workers? Hospitality workers? Cleaners?
Are they all low skilled? If not, what is the relevance to "bettering the lives of European low skilled workers"?
What we should have been doing was to have been having strong protection of workers rights so that wages could not be undercut.
What we shoud have been doing was to have been having effective housing provision and strong regulation so that undercutting by living in poor conditions was impossible.
What we shoud have been doing was to have been investing in training so that there were no shortages of brickies, plasterers, plumbers, electricians etc.
What we shoud have been doing was to have been structuring an educational system where vocational qualifications were as valued, both practically and societally, as "academic" ones.
What we should not have been doing was decades of under-investment, public-school snobbery, and libertarian political and economic vandalism which created a whole raft of problems which the racists and the xenophobes could then blame on "the foreigners".
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Dogs body to a labourer. All others = RWR nonsense. EU migrstion on the whole has a positive financial effect for the UK.
