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I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
The UK's problem is that it has an excessively generous, universal welfare system where one's right to draw from the public pot is not linked to quantum or continuity of contributions (and which, as you point out, incorporates a range of in work benefits for the lower paid).
The UK would have been better off reforming its dysfunctional welfare state but it's politically easier to stick it to the EU rather than touch that sacred cow. The problem has always been one of UK practice, not EU law and the UK has always been free to configure its benefits system and fiscal policy as it sees fit (albeit not so as to discriminate against EU citizens). If the power to discriminate is the imperative then absolutely, Brexit is the only way to achieve it.
As for in work benefits 'paid for by UK taxpayers' I do hope you understand that EU citizens working here are by and large UK taxpayers themselves (notable exceptions being diplomats and non resident non doms).
My head said brake, but my heart cried never.
Seems reasonable to me.
And the pair of breasts behind them.
She's an utter fuckwit.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
My head said brake, but my heart cried never.
My gripe with all of this is that the UK has become a slave wage economy. It's too easy for firms to employ skilled workers on lower pay from eastern Europe than invest in training young people and access to a glut of unskilled workers means you can pay the minimum wage and get lots of applicants. And Working Tax Credits are just a wage subsidy for big business. Wages need to rise beyond the minimum wage. And you are right - our benefits system is dysfunctional.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2016/05/11/immigration-from-the-eu-is-not-a-necessary-evil-and-does-not-drag-down-wages/
My head said brake, but my heart cried never.
My son's walking home from school - I'll probably be in at around 5.30....
The Bank of England's report on the impact of immigration on occupational wages finds that a 10 percentage point rise in the proportion of immigrants is associated with a two per cent reduction in pay in the "semi/unskilled services sector".
http://www.cityam.com/231356/bank-of-england-mass-migration-can-depress-low-skilled-wages
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
My head said brake, but my heart cried never.
My head said brake, but my heart cried never.
We are the powerful country we always have been, and then some. This idea that the UK is some second rate player is a total myth, we actually are pretty big guns. We contribute shedloads to the EU in many many ways.
You don't let that just walk out of your door, if you are the EU. I think the powers that be in the EU are seriously worried about what is going to happen, and just how they will fill the gap. That;s one of the big reasons why I think we will all get a good deal
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!