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Nick Ferrari having a go at the TUC
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Originally posted by CretinWatcher View PostAnother brain-fart from vetran.
Japan has next to no immigration at all but has the same effect.
Japan, Land of the Falling Wage - Bloomberg
It's a phenomenon throughout the industrialised world, due to increased automation and competition from cheap labour in Asia
Only the cognitive elite get paid well now. That will not change ever.
You could expel all immigrants tomorrow and wages would not rise in the long run.
HTH, BIKIW.Comment
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Originally posted by GB9 View PostPart of the problem is using GDP growth as an economic success factor without considering what it actually means. Unfortunately too many people bought the Blair lie.Comment
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostGDP per head would be a better measure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...al)_per_capita
UK (lots of immigration) GDP per capita is higher - on all 3 different measures - than Japan (no immigration at all).
Switzerland has one of the highest GDPs per capita and also has far more immigrants per capita at > 20% of population.Last edited by CretinWatcher; 23 August 2016, 11:57.Comment
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Originally posted by CretinWatcher View PostOk then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...al)_per_capita
UK (lots of immigration) GDP per capita is higher - on all 3 different measures - than Japan (no immigration at all).
Switzerland has one of the highest GDPs per capita and also has far more immigrants per capita at > 20% of population.
I'm alright JackComment
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Originally posted by CretinWatcher View PostOk then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...al)_per_capita
UK (lots of immigration) GDP per capita is higher - on all 3 different measures - than Japan (no immigration at all).
Switzerland has one of the highest GDPs per capita and also has far more immigrants per capita at > 20% of population.
Press | New Economics Foundation
So basically our economy is rising house prices. Plain and simple.Comment
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Originally posted by BlasterBates View PostAnyone who's been to Japan would know they're all packed in like sardines, whether it's on the train, their flat, their tiny work desks, where they spend 14 hours a day or their tiny hotel rooms.
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Originally posted by vetran View Post
He was going to stand as Mayor for London at one point but Johnson stood although it was difficult for the Tories on which one of the more obnoxious gits to pick to stand...“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostOf course he does, Ferrari is a Tory (who doesn't like certain foreigners it seems looking at his record: https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...lumandrefugees ... Black information Link:)
He was going to stand as Mayor for London at one point but Johnson stood although it was difficult for the Tories on which one of the more obnoxious gits to pick to stand...Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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