It's opinion gained from his communist father. Was Cameron told to keep the cheap labour coming in, or is it what he thinks Cameron was told? Labour, when in power, kept telling us we needed the immigrants and migrant workers. Who is right, or more importantly, wrong?

Don't spin this back to refugees. That's a separate issue.

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Systematically dragged down by the lawmakers

He is delusional.

For those of you still thinking that 'racism' was the root of Brexit, please take heed of the attached link. Another British company will disappear soon:

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Unfortunately, globalisation brings with it inherent dangers to the lives of a significant proportion of the country. Having what is perceived as a lack of influence over important matters, such as one of the largest manufacturing sites in the U.K. potentially being closed because of a deal between a US company and French company, drives people away from supporting the 'open borders, supranational' project that is the EU.

Protectionism offers a degree of hope, albeit I believe protectionism for protectionism's sake is futile. What is the riposte from the federalists? Having a seat at the table provides influence? Pull the other one. At least being out of the club gives us room to manoeuvre that doesn't contradict those weighted 'rules' emanating from Brussels.

"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02

Hahaha..... another Dermot Masterclass in put downs!

You sound like Gareth Snell!

Raising minimum wage, would arguably help, given that one of the primary factors in low skill manual labour is that the wages have stagnated due to demand being supplied from poorer nations (where the exchange rate makes working for 16-20k a year with no dependents viable in a way that it isn't for UK residents with families or dependents).

But the upshot of raising the minimum wage is that it would likely attract higher qualified migrant workers from those same countries, into the same jobs - Which is even worse for those countries (who are already losing degree graduates to the UK to do fairly average jobs).

The only beneficiaries from the Freedom of Movement have been corporations. They've garnered a great profit from the fact wages have been suppressed by cheap sources of labour, whilst successive governments (including Labour) have actually cut corporation taxes and allowed many such companies to shelter from tax contributions.

So basically, Corporate interests benefitted from cheap labour, tax cuts and tax exemptions, at the expense of British citizens. Meanwhile, countries supplying that labour, have been effectively robbed of skilled labour and the 'cream of the generation'.

Unsurprisingly, many of those countries have also seen increasing unrest and problems created, in effect, by the exploitation of Freedom of Movement that's removed 'their best and brightest'.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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