Farage vs Clegg

[DodgyAgent]

5. Mr Farage, you spent several years working in commodity brokerage and investment banking, moving large amounts of money around the world to maximise profit for yourself and your clients. I think the freedom to do that is a very good thing; now why would you not support the freedom of individuals to offer their labour around the world to maximise profit for themselves and their families?

Explain why the free movement of labour across the world has any equivalence with the flow of money.

[lilelvis2000]

Could not be arsed to watch it.

I didn't even know it was on. Even if I did know - I still would not have watched it.

[mos]

Could not be arsed to watch it.

I watched it twice. You would see sweating, out of his depth Farage.
I cannot support Clegg after he broke his election promise on fees and I also do not support his enthusiastic and noncritical stance on EU. But Clegg beats Farage on both style and content. UKiP should upgrade.

[mos]

Explain why the free movement of labour across the world has any equivalence with the flow of money.

Chevron, get out of Poland! Nobody wants you here!

[Mich the Tester]

Explain why the free movement of labour across the world has any equivalence with the flow of money.

Explain why it doesn't.

Labour basically means offering a service that adds value for somebody and thereby getting paid for it. Why is that different to the process of investment?

[Platypus]

I am afraid that Clegg beat him on style and substance.

Really? Really? Using isolated examples to make the general case is the lowest political trick in the book, just because Cleggers spoke with one person last week who told him "it would be bad for my business to leave Europe" doesn't mean that it would be bad for business to leave Europe.

Clegg was paper thin on substance.

Farage did come very unstuck on the £55m per day "membership fee" for being in Europe.

[DodgyAgent]

Chevron, get out of Poland! Nobody wants you here!

Quite. They should keep buying their Oil and Gas from Russia.

[DodgyAgent]

Explain why it doesn't.

Labour basically means offering a service that adds value for somebody and thereby getting paid for it. Why is that different to the process of investment?

So why don't all IT contractors get paid the same? Why don't we have one supermarket in the world selling the same food to everyone?

Does it not occur to you that there are considerable practical differences between shovelling money around the world and moving labour around the world?

Fair enough if human capital and money had the same physical properties but they dont.

[mos]

Explain why it doesn't.

Labour basically means offering a service that adds value for somebody and thereby getting paid for it. Why is that different to the process of investment?

It puts countries in former "Eastern European block" at disadvantage twice. First they get ripped off blind because of predatory capital and are completely asset stripped. I mean completely. Resources, natural reserves, everything. Then desperate people are getting freely exploited and abused, both domestically and on immigration.

I would rather say that it has nothing to do with Farage, who sucked at his job.

[mos]

Quite. They should keep buying their Oil and Gas from Russia.

We have other sources of energy and the mix worked for us well. We had well developed heavy industry before 1991 when we got asset stripped by predatory capital, as per LSE instructions.

At least Russia do not steal our resources or destroy environment!