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Low paid - so unskilled immigrants would fall into that category

 

No wonder the country is going down the pan with all these dumb, libmong remoaners, thank god there's more Brexiteers than the thick bastards to save them from their stupidity

 

So again

• A study from 2012 which analysed data from 1975-2005 concluded that the main impact of increased immigration is on the wages of immigrants already in the UK. They find that university-educated immigrants are particularly impacted by migration, but that there is little effect on the wage of the UK-born.

 

That sounds like the comment of an expert and far too evidence based

It will therefore be ignored

 

The so called" experts" have got everything wrong in the last few years, and are usually agenda driven, so should be taken with a pinch of salt
some people need reminding its 2017 not 1975

 

Nor is it 1957, much as some would like it to be

The general message the experts gave out in favour of Remain seems to be unfolding pretty accurately, overall. It’s true there were some stupidly extreme things said which were wrong but a lot of that is an error in timing rather than ultimate result

 

So basically, we are fully stocked with migrant workers and don't need any more - the point I was making all along - thanks for the clarity !!

 

Loving your style TC, you got there in the end

 

Confused now; did you/your parents emigrate to New Zealand originally or emigrate from New Zealand to the UK?

 

David Davis doesn't agree https://www.theguardian.com/politic...-sometimes-rise-after-brexit-says-david-davis

 

Wouldn't you like to know

 

What do they call little effect 50p an hour £1 an hour,might not be a lot to some guy that does the reports,but would be massive to the low paid.

 

No they don't, quite the opposite actually.
Just the thought of Blair being a rabid undemocratic remoaner should have the nation voting leave

 

It's ok your hypocrisy will be safe with me......

 

I imagine Labour's proposal for a £10 minimum wage would have a greater effect for the low paid.

 

Seen life outside the EU,the promised land,See myself as a shepherd leading you lambs away from the EU Wolves,you will thank me one day,when you learn to think for yourself.

 

Yes they have plans to print lots of cash,won't be worth anything,but there will be lots of it.

 

Actually put like that you're right and the current system of allowing employers to pay low wages and then subsiding their profits through having the government give the low paid benefits, tax credits, housing benefits seems like a much better idea

 

Or if we stopped importing low paid claiming all the benefits,we could fund the NHS

 

However, he added that he could not imagine that the government’s policy would be “anything other than that which is in the national interest, which means that from time to time we will need more, from time to time we will need less”.

Yes he does