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Should the UK remain a part of the EU or leave?

Poll closed Jun 24, 2016.
  1. Stay in

    56 vote(s)
    47.9%
  2. Get out

    61 vote(s)
    52.1%
  1. kiwiqpr

    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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    If all these foreign workers are leaving does that mean that there Will be work for the locals left behind
    If employers are desperate enough to fill these places they might even pay decent wages
     
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    Who exactly is this "jet-setting, cosmopolitan elite"? I've always wondered who it is I should be hating and opposing and don't really understand who they are or why.

    The only jet-setters I know are people like Rupert Murdoch, Viscount Rothmere or similar - the ones who want us to hate foreigners and cut the links to organisations that stop them getting their own way. It can't be them, so who is it?
     
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  3. Stroller

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    I've been on a jet.
     
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  4. TheBigDipper

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    Maybe. But that may not get us the result we want once we have it. Many of the companies employing EU foreigners say that Brits don't apply for their jobs. Agricultural pickers is one example that comes to mind. If we lose the foreign workforce, then that may not change. If the companies put up wages and that attracts Brits, then the cost base for the company will change and they'll have to put up prices. The consumer (in this global world) will vote with their money and buy cheaper products from abroad, where labour costs are far less. So, in the end, the only effect might be the closure of British businesses and the marketplace buying from abroad.

    Everyone seems to agree now that there will be a short-to-medium downturn in prosperity for ordinary people as a result of Brexit, so they probably won't be able to afford to "buy British" when there is a cheaper alternative.

    There seem to be some jobs that locals feel is beneath them, Kiwi. That's true for NZ as well. My brother-in-law once started a cleaning business in Hamilton which focused on cleaning airport offices and schools. No Kiwi ever applied to work for him, only foreigners. His competitors found the same thing to be true. The customers dictated what they'd pay for cleaning services by choosing the cheapest supplier, so wages were depressed as a result.

    Some jobs have a training lead time, too. If our EU nursing staff went back home, we'd need 3 years to train replacements - assuming there were British people who were good enough and motivated enough to want to be a nurse. And the question is why aren't they nursing already, then?
     
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  5. GoldhawkRoad

    GoldhawkRoad Well-Known Member

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    Try Blair for a start. He's responsible big time for mass immigration and Brexit. It was apparently racist to mention it then, and Brown would call you a bigot. Have a look at wealthy lawyer Umuna, or white van man hating Lady Nugee. Farther afield, look at Merkel who brought in 1million North Africans without ANY security checks. Big effect on Brexit. We cannot take in a city the size of Birmingham every two years.
     
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  6. sb_73

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    The workers left behind don't need the jobs, unemployment is at an historic low. Perhaps wages will go up though, but what's holding those back is economic uncertainty, low graowth and productivity, and public sector pay policy.
    Just correcting your post mate, less coming in, more going out. Which is what you want, isn't it? The jet setting, cosmopolitan elite can safely ignore the rest, that's what they are an elite.
     
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    <laugh>
    <laugh><laugh> Brilliant! You take a fake news stat that I showed was bollocks using numbers which apparently should be ignored and quote it as a fact! Outstanding! You are churning out lie after lie, where do you get them from, Breitbart? North Africans to Germany? The majority of migrants there have been Syrian, followed by Iraqi, Afghan, Iranian and Albanian. Thank god for Tony Blair, without him who would you blame for everything? I gave up blaming Thatcher for breaking the soul of this country years ago, we've had enough time to put it right, it's our fault we haven't.
     
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  8. GoldhawkRoad

    GoldhawkRoad Well-Known Member

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    I see you ignore Libya, Tunisia, Morocco etc Or those Africans coming up from Nigeria and Central Africa. The fact is, Germany don't know where many come from because they made no checks and that's ****ing dangerous.
     
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    They are in Italy. You need to employ a fact checker. You said a million North Africans (i.e. Not Nigerians, Central Africans etc) were in Germany.

    Agree that the Birmingham stuff is rubbish then?

    Sorry, I'm still laughing at the revelation that Brexit, which I thought you wanted, is Blair and Merkels fault,
     
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    Migration Watch is quoting Birmingham. Sooner listen to them than you, no disrespect.

    Merkel IS in part responsible for Brexit for the reasons I've given, and for sending Cameron back with thin gruel when he was seeking an accommodation.

    Blair criminally underestimated the mass immigration from Eastern Europe, which eventually caused tensions in areas in the UK of high immigration. It's interesting that Macron is currently seeking curbs on Eastern European immigration into France.

    Tunisia has supplied a huge number of ISIS recruits, and if you think they've all gone to Italy then dream on
     
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    ? OK I think we've reached the end of the line here.
     
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    Spot on.
     
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    GoldhawkRoad Well-Known Member

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    Yep, we'll agree to differ
     
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    GoldhawkRd said:
    Migration Watch is quoting Birmingham. Sooner listen to them than you, no disrespect.

    Merkel IS in part responsible for Brexit for the reasons I've given, and for sending Cameron back with thin gruel when he was seeking an accommodation.

    Blair criminally underestimated the mass immigration from Eastern Europe, which eventually caused tensions in areas in the UK of high immigration. It's interesting that Macron is currently seeking curbs on Eastern European immigration into France.

    Tunisia has supplied a huge number of ISIS recruits, and if you think they've all gone to Italy then dream on
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    ? OK I think we've reached the end of the line here.

    We have certainly not reached the end of the line on this, Merkel is indeed totally responsible for Brexit and here's why:

    We are jealous that she has overseen an unprecendented period of consistent prosperity for virtually ALL Germans - not the elitist few.
    We are jealous that she is supremely competent at her job compared to the complete arseholes that we in the UK have.
    We are jealous of the fact that she makes decision based on long term TCO and TVO rather than the comfort the turn of a pillow provides.
    I wouldn't want to be a member of a club where I'm consistently made to look like a poor relation.

    She also understands that the EU needs a shake up - if anyone will deliver that it will be her.
    As for her letting in all those pesky bastards fleeing persecution, war and for many death - what a bitch!!
    You do know that her beliefs were sown in East Germany where she saw directly the what poverty and disinclusion brings.

    I still say it - Brits didn't really give a crap about the vast majority of elitist Danes, Germans, Dutch and most don't give a **** about the Poles being next door. The vast majority of you are pissed at a very different migrant that will happily still walk in, long after Brexit. The rules are and were there:

    If someone hasn't found employment within 3 months - you are entitled to throw them out - which was a very real possibility when I moved to Denmark as they exercise that rule.

    So in conclusion - you've been sold a puppy by a load of used car salemen who couldn't give 2 flying ****s about you.
    Europe is pissing itself laughing - the streets ar full of ****, we produce **** all, The best Universities are full with foreigners paying - my god daughter has to pass 4 A levels at A to get a ****ing place anywhere decent - 4 ****ing As, I cannot even comprehend that.

    ****ing Merkel, the slag. Just who the **** does she think she is - does she honestly think she runs a tighter ship than the magnificent Cameron, the stupendous May, the totally unhypocritiical and ethical Corbyn - the list goes on.

    They say a country gets the leadership it deserves - just saying.

    And don't you ****ing tell us when the line is reached Stan - don't you ever!!!!!!!!
     
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    sb_73 Well-Known Member

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    Was a reference to the increasing futility of my discussion with Goldie young Danelaw.

    Though I reserve the right to tell anyone whatever I ****ing well like.
     
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    Young Goldie can be turned Stan, he's got in him become a disciple!!!
    And of course I knew what you was referring to - are we still on?
     
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    Pretty sure yes, though the usual organisational chaos is kicking off again......
     
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    <laugh> Stroll on...!
     
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    Merkel has publicly admitted that her immigration invitation was a huge mistake - just saying.
     
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    She has never said anything of the kind, she has repeatedly stated that it went too fast and that Germany was less prepared than she thought. Have never heard her say it was a huge mistake.
    You recently added Breibart News to The Little Englander as your source?

    You'd be in Paradise if you could have a leader like Merkel - by the say, from news sources that couldn't give a ****- Mr. Daviers is a lazy incompetent. Your Brexit is stinking like one dirty turd.

    Just saying
     
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