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[Merged]Brexit stuff (part 2)
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The traditional working class labour supporters most certainly didLet us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone -
So where are they going to go? Germany, maybe. France - no jobs, Spain - no jobs, Italy - no jobs, Poland - no jobs, Romanian - no jobs.Originally posted by milanbenes View Post
They ain't stooopid and they ain't gonna hang around once the pound is worth cents on the euro (or whatever their home currency is)
Milan.
They'll be sticking in the UK until the EU can actually start creating employment.Comment
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It is not a question of whether I'll be refused. That's a non-issue. Time and time again visa applications fall through (from those coming outside of the EU) because another resource has been found in the interim. The point is clients do not wait! Brexiters just don't get it. I can move from job to job in hours rather than weeks or months.Originally posted by vetran View PostAnd your convenience is more important than the real economic damage the accession countries are doing by undercutting local labour?
If the visa was points based how likely is it you would be refused? I suspect very unlikely and it would probably in these modern days of computers be very fast to obtain.
Local labour is not being undercut. Business just don't want to pay more. Blame the employers!! And customers in the supermarkets will be the first to complain at the increased cost of fresh produce plucked from their fields a year or two down the line when that local labour finally gets off their backside to do the work."Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark TwainComment
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If you think Eastern Europeans are going to return home just because the sterling has fallen then you have no clue. What are they going to return home to? Nurses and medical staff earn 700 Euros a month for 300 hours of work. Builders earn about £3.00 per hour if they can find any work at all. IT developers are not leaving their countries of origin anyway and EU graduates working in retail/hospitality jobs in the UK have no jobs to return home to anyway.Originally posted by milanbenes View Postthey won't be undercutting local labour for long, the economic miracle will be Britain's post Brexit currency devaluation when UK workers become cheaper than the accession country's workers
Milan.
As far as currency devaluation is concerned we need this to improve our balance of paymentsLet us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyoneComment
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You don't have a job so I am not sure you are in any position to make comments like thisOriginally posted by scooterscot View PostIt is not a question of whether I'll be refused. That's a non-issue. Time and time again visa applications fall through (from those coming outside of the EU) because another resource has been found in the interim. The point is clients do not wait! Brexiters just don't get it. I can move from job to job in hours rather than weeks or months.
Local labour is not being undercut. Business just don't want to pay more. Blame the employers!! And customers in the supermarkets will be the first to complain at the increased cost of fresh produce plucked from their fields a year or two down the line when that local labour finally gets off their backside to do the work.
Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyoneComment
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The books would be a good read for anyone in the UK right now. A country operating a growing deficit. Engaging in endless QE. Help to buy programs. Unaffordable housing w.r.t earnings. A devaluating currency."Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark TwainComment
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well as all the other things we complain about are nothing to do with the EU according to the Bremaintards (apart from being either requirements of EU membership or clearly caused by EU policies) then I suspect we will not be covered by it. The Dublin convention does make us less able to refuse asylum seekers than before (the child refugees have family here and under EU law even if they are bogus they get to come in).Originally posted by stek View PostJust had a thought/brain fart, after Brexit does the Dublin Agreement apply to UK, because if not asylum seekers and refugees can just roll up to UK and the UK will have to accept them.
I suppose we will drop back to the Schengnen or previous agreements.
https://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/as...in_aug2002.pdfBefore the Dublin Convention came into force, most EU member states used another piece of
European law, called the Schengen Agreement, to decide whether or not they would accept and
examine someone’s asylum application. In many cases, countries had readmission agreements with
each other, which meant asylum seekers could be sent back to another European state if they had
passed through it on their way to the country in which they had claimed asylum.
In the UK, this meant that any asylum seeker who passed through a ‘safe’ third country before
reaching the UK was likely to be returned there and was expected to apply for asylum in that country
(except where the asylum seeker had close family members already in the UK). In these
circumstances, the UK government would refuse to even look at the substance of someone’s asylum
claim, as it argued it had no obligation to under the terms of the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees.
Maybe the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees is a good source? But it looks like fewer rights not more.Comment
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50% of your earnings pay for taxes (hidden and otherwise). Why would you want a job?Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostYou don't have a job so I am not sure you are in any position to make comments like this
"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark TwainComment
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Originally posted by GB9 View PostSocttish Independence a greater threat to Scotland's financial services than Brexit.
Have we done this one? Can't see it anywhere.
Basically, Scots leave the UK and English customers leave the Scottish banks. And in the meantime, Sturgeon is shafting her own economy by threatening another referendum.
Scooter would be worried, if he hadn't already abandoned his homeland and shifted to become an EU worker.
I have clients in Scotland. I also employ folks in Scotland from time to time. Becoming cheaper by the minute
"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark TwainComment
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Originally posted by milanbenes View PostI can fix that for you,
faster than you can say Brexit the foreigners will be gone once the pound devalues.
They ain't stooopid and they ain't gonna hang around once the pound is worth cents on the euro (or whatever their home currency is)
Milan.




You actually believe that?
They have moved here because there is workComment
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