Yeah, sod the low skilled UK workers, eh? Highly skilled workers will always be in demand everywhere. They’ll be fine.https://twitter.com/Richard2957/status/1072506111352365057 …
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2. Higher growth overall doesn’t necessarily translate into higher growth for everyone. A higher GDP shared out among more people isn’t necessarily higher per person and doesn’t help everyone.
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3. You don’t have to choose between growth and immigration. Everyone wants some immigration. We just don’t want or need mass uncontrolled immigration of often low skilled workers who aren’t net contributors.
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Cheap labour from the EU? Are you seriously suggesting British employers can pay people less depending on their nationality? C'mon Julia, we expect better than that from you!
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Mate. Really? That is THE REASON why many employers want to stay in the EU. Because of an unlimited supply of EU migrants who will work for less, employers don’t have to raise wages for Brit workers to attract them. It’s really not complicated.
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Ah I see. So you want British companies to be unable to get the labour or to have higher overheads and hence to be uncompetitive. As Lord Suger might say, complete lack of business acumen. Julia you’re fired!
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How come German industry invests heavily in training, then? They have a similar degree of incoming migration?
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They have a long history of training in industry. We don’t. We also opened our doors to E Europeans 3 years earlier than Germany did.
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So we weren't forced to by the EU then. We chose to do that. Interesting how the EU is blamed anyway.
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Exactly. And the UK actively pressed for the accession of the E European nations.
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The problems of low labour productivity and low investment in the U.K. are old; pre-date EU membership and aren’t going to change without greater public spending and an industrial policy; something the U.K. has eschewed since the 1980s
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But with lower growth won’t that be harder to achieve?
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Current net annual immigration is about 0.5% of population. A no-deal Brexit is estimated to cost 0.5% of GDP per year. Hmm.
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Never thought
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