Brexit Expert says it's a 'fantasy' that immigration changes will help businesses

[Deleted]

It will possibly make my working life slightly harder, but I doubt too many have sympathy for a financial services worker living on an island in the Med.

My life might be a bit 'slightly harder' but I only think about myself.

Good old Tory boy.

The UK has 'full' employment. Immigration is fine. This shit is smokes and mirrors for massive ideological driven change from the one nation Tories now they have an open cheque to change the UK.

[NED funded]

After her speech its clear Theresa May is crazy. Leave the single market? Wtf?

[Daws]

After her speech its clear Theresa May is crazy. Leave the single market? Wtf?

Well anyone with any sense realised when voting for Brexit that it meant leaving the EU, the single market is a part of the EU. Leave one and you automatically leave the other. It's really not that hard to understand.

[Dizzeeyooo]

anyone with any sense ... voting for Brexit

interesting oxymoron

[HumbleDuck]

I rather worry about the now than the theoretical future

Thus far every BREXIT concern is "this might happen" not "this will happen"

But that is how sane people talk, no one can be certain of the outcome of an event unless it takes place.
It's like a fundamental thing, even in "hard sciences" such as physics.

[Daws]

But that is how sane people talk, no one can be certain of the outcome of an event unless it takes place.
It's like a fundamental thing, even in "hard sciences" such as physics.

My god you talk about using sense don't you know there's a quota of fear that we have to use?

[NotFunny008]

The predictions didn't go as planned before May gave us a timetable on invoking Article 50. Everything was doom and gloom, yet that isn't how things are and the experts have acknowledged that their modelling wasn't robust enough.

Britain will do okay outside of the EU, whether we would have been better off staying time will tell, but likely it won't have much more than a very minor negative impact for most British people.

It will possibly make my working life slightly harder, but I doubt too many have sympathy for a financial services worker living on an island in the Med.

The problem with that kind of thinking is that without the financial workers, the local sandwich shops, the local pubs, the local restaurants in/near the financial district will all be going out of business. The electricians, the plumbers, the security staffs, the janitors that the banks hired would all be out of work. There is a whole ecosystem connected to the financial services. Also with those financial workers gone, the UK is going lose a sizable tax income from them. Stop being so myopic!

[Rend Blackhand]

There were 'experts' that predicted things like an emergency budget with extreme cuts, a total housing market collapse and world war three because of Brexit.

Load of horseshit.

[Deleted]

Businesses want immigrant workers to lower wage costs.

This is not in working people's best interest.

How shocking.

[xChurch]

People still thinking it's immigration that's the problem with jobs, keep thinking that all the way to the coming of our Robot overlords.

[Deleted]

Illegal Immigration is a crime btw

[Tennis]

After her speech its clear Theresa May is crazy. Leave the single market? Wtf?

Hopefully this will lead to her and her party being voted out of office.

[Tennis]

To be replaced by who? The Labour Party? Not likely.

Why not? They have some good policies.

[Daws]

Why not? They have some good policies.

Er they don't have any policies, or at least not ones they as a party agree upon. Plus they have an extremely unpopular leader who has to prove he can win by-elections (he has two coming up) or face another year of his party going full immolation on itself.

[Fojos]

I dunno; I think a few people voiced concern over the 31 year low of the pound vs the dollar that IS happening.

Its the Brexiteers claiming it WILL get stronger later....

But yes, there are a lot of other worries about what WILL happen; too.

Has nothing to do with Brexit. If you actually took some time to really examine things you'd see that it isn't the pound that is falling (anything out of the ordinary in any cycle), the USD is rising too much. If you compare it to other stable currencies you see it's actually stable.

p.s. the increase in dollar is actually bad for the US.

[Noogai131]

Why not? They have some good policies.

Yes, like supporting Brexit.

Or do you only pay attention to things that support your narrative?

[Cyberowl]

It will possibly make my working life slightly harder, but I doubt too many have sympathy for a financial services worker living on an island in the Med.

I may or may not be offering you hookers for an internship...

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Has nothing to do with Brexit. If you actually took some time to really examine things you'd see that it isn't the pound that is falling (anything out of the ordinary in any cycle), the USD is rising too much. If you compare it to other stable currencies you see it's actually stable.

p.s. the increase in dollar is actually bad for the US.

Yeah, it was a tactical retreat or something. :P

[Tennis]

Er they don't have any policies, or at least not ones they as a party agree upon. Plus they have an extremely unpopular leader who has to prove he can win by-elections (he has two coming up) or face another year of his party going full immolation on itself.

They have time to get it together. As Brexit reflects terribly on the current ruling party, you can expect a reaction from the public.

[Mayhem]

Has nothing to do with Brexit. If you actually took some time to really examine things you'd see that it isn't the pound that is falling (anything out of the ordinary in any cycle), the USD is rising too much. If you compare it to other stable currencies you see it's actually stable.

Like?

/10char

[Noogai131]

Like?

/10char

The Australian dollar for one has been fairly stable for the last 4 years. We're not doing well, but we're stable. I believe the Yen is also one of the most stable currencies in the world as well.

Fact is the US currency shifts up and down at the drop of the hat, ESPECIALLY during an election cycle.