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Is it unreasonable to expect a leader to put citizens of its own country first? A genuine question.

• maury91 9y ago
  no it's not, but if you make the EU citizens go away from UK, you will lose the main working force, resulting in an economic disaster
• DanBC 9y ago
  It's fucking stupid to think that UK citizens can provide all the workers the UK needs, especially for things like the NHS which runs on immigrant labour and will be impossible to safely staff without immigrant workers.
  • Boothroid 9y ago
    In the first place that's not what I said, thus straw man on your part. Secondly, surely if the UK cannot provide enough staff from the existing UK population the question should be primarly how to address that, rather than the easy fix of stealing other countries' talented people; thirdly, no one is talking about zero immigration; fourth, current policies do not mandate that EU immigrants must find work; fifth, what happens in future decades if the UK still needs cheap workers - going by your logic, why not invite the entire world to come to the UK? Sixth, EU immigration has lowered the wages of British labour; seventh, surely rather than the ponzi scheme of bringing in cheap labour we should all accept that we need to treat workers with dignity, pay them a proper wage and if prices need to rise to enable this then so be it.