Confused Britain

[Batcher]

Is it news though?

No idea. I don't work for them

[Troll]

It should be a question of economics

Whose economics though -Business loves a bigger pool of workers as it depresses wages

[DodgyAgent]

Whose economics though -Business loves a bigger pool of workers as it depresses wages

Which needs to be offset against social issues as I said in my post.

[petergriffin]

Having poorer countries in a club doesn't necessarily depress wages. If you're good enough that you can work remotely, you can buy/rent a property in East/South Europe for a tenth of the price and keep your UK profits in your UK ltd. Then you have to travel maybe once/twice a month, which you can do for a bargain.

[petergriffin]

Which needs to be offset against social issues as I said in my post.

The social issues you refer to are not caused by EU immigrants, but by British citizens of a certain religion.

[DodgyAgent]

The social issues you refer to are not caused by EU immigrants, but by British citizens of a certain religion.

Britain has every right to challenge the EU's rules - Telegraph

Quite true though a great many have come here via other EU countries such as Germany

. Yet there are hundreds of thousands of people from outside Europe who have used its flexible migration controls and generous citizenship rules to settle in Britain. For instance, many of the Somalis who live here came from Holland and Denmark where they were first granted EU status on compassionate grounds. Nigerians have arrived through Germany, Russians through the Baltic states, South Americans through Spain and Portugal. A few years ago, Oxford University’s Migration Observatory found that 141,000 people who came to the UK under EU rules were born outside the continent. Between a third and a half of the entire Dutch Somali community has moved to the UK

[minestrone]

Having poorer countries in a club doesn't necessarily depress wages. If you're good enough that you can work remotely, you can buy/rent a property in East/South Europe for a tenth of the price and keep your UK profits in your UK ltd. Then you have to travel maybe once/twice a month, which you can do for a bargain.

You seem to make your judgments based on your very narrow experience.

[petergriffin]

Quite true though a great many have come here via other EU countries such as Germany

Peanuts compared to the millions who acquired British citizenship via being former Commonwealth colonies.

And to the ones who say: let's get rid of the EU so that we can do trade deals with our "cousins" from the Commonwealth, here's a list of the largest Commonwealth countries by population:
- India , 1.26 billion
- Pakistan (180 million)
- Nigeria (170 million)
- Bangladesh (156 million)

[petergriffin]

You seem to make your judgments based on your very narrow experience.

Having lived, worked and operated in 4 EU countries is not really a narrow experience.

[vetran]

Having poorer countries in a club doesn't necessarily depress wages. If you're good enough that you can work remotely, you can buy/rent a property in East/South Europe for a tenth of the price and keep your UK profits in your UK ltd. Then you have to travel maybe once/twice a month, which you can do for a bargain.

yes all those waiting staff can just hop on easyjet every week. The issue in the EU isn't with highly skilled people.


Top end skills and wages will stay in demand. However as the mid to low taxpayers (the majority) contribute about a half to a third of tax take if their wages fall then the top 1% & top 30% will be left paying all the tax, they have better accountants and will avoid paying resulting in a rapidly falling tax take.