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Either the Tories have not thought through the implications of the post-brexit immigration rules... or they have thought them through all too well.
I have a nasty inkling of what they might be up to, but it takes a bit of explaining.
Let's start with "before brexit"...
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I have a nasty inkling of what they might be up to, but it takes a bit of explaining.
Let's start with "before brexit"...
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Article 45 TFEU is a fundamental right of workers which entails the abolition of any discrimination based on nationality as regards remuneration. Plain-speak: an employer could not underpay an immigrant from Italy, say, just on the basis that they were not from the UK.
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Prior to brexit the majority of migrant workers were from EEA countries and this rule protected them.
It was not legal for a UK employer to bring in "cheap foreign workers" to undercut UK staff, and as result immigration from the EU was heavily skewed toward the jobs...
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It was not legal for a UK employer to bring in "cheap foreign workers" to undercut UK staff, and as result immigration from the EU was heavily skewed toward the jobs...
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...that Brits weren't prepared to do at all; agricultural labourers, warehouse workers, hospitality and care.
Now let's look at the New Rules: they actually *enshrine* the principle of paying immigrants less than the locals.
And it gets worse...
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Now let's look at the New Rules: they actually *enshrine* the principle of paying immigrants less than the locals.
And it gets worse...
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Which are these "shortage occupations"?
- Scientists
- Engineers
- Architects
- Managers
- Actuaries
- Veterinarians
- IT Business Analysts
In our brave new post-brexit Britain it is the "good jobs" that will be undercut by immigrant labour. The jobs that Brits want.
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- Scientists
- Engineers
- Architects
- Managers
- Actuaries
- Veterinarians
- IT Business Analysts
In our brave new post-brexit Britain it is the "good jobs" that will be undercut by immigrant labour. The jobs that Brits want.
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And the immigration numbers are going through the roof!
Tories are making a song and dance of trying to send 200 boat people to Rwanda but meanwhile, away from this choreographed distraction, they are organising the wholesale displacement of the UK middle class.
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Tories are making a song and dance of trying to send 200 boat people to Rwanda but meanwhile, away from this choreographed distraction, they are organising the wholesale displacement of the UK middle class.
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Q: Why would they do this?
A: Because they are acting for a tiny elite - a few thousand very wealthy people. They have already impoverished the working classes - broken Union power and destroyed whole industries - destroying the middle class is just a natural progression.
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A: Because they are acting for a tiny elite - a few thousand very wealthy people. They have already impoverished the working classes - broken Union power and destroyed whole industries - destroying the middle class is just a natural progression.
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Q: What will the British middle classes do in this Brexitty new world?
A: Work or starve. The writing is on the wall.
The irony - and tragedy - of all this is that many brexit voters did so to REDUCE immigration. They were conned into believing...
8/theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/n…
A: Work or starve. The writing is on the wall.
The irony - and tragedy - of all this is that many brexit voters did so to REDUCE immigration. They were conned into believing...
8/theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/n…
...that Europeans were "coming over here to take our jobs", when in fact they were doing the jobs that Brits wouldn't touch with a barge pole. And now they find the Tory Brexit party has tripled net migration, to fill the type of jobs that Brits DO want to do.
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To sum it all up:
Despite his diversionary, performative threats to a handful of boat people - and his loud, empty words about reducing immigration - Sunak, has started doing to the British what Hengist and Horsa did to the Britons.
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Despite his diversionary, performative threats to a handful of boat people - and his loud, empty words about reducing immigration - Sunak, has started doing to the British what Hengist and Horsa did to the Britons.
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