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Because cheap labour from the EU, an area of the world generally richer than the UK minus London, was mostly a marginal phenomenon that didn’t have an impact on
by mmarq 4y ago
Because cheap labour from the EU, an area of the world generally richer than the UK minus London, was mostly a marginal phenomenon that didn’t have an impact on the lives of the British workers. EU citizens earn more than the locals and are generally younger and better educated, so they finance public services without actually using them as much as the locals.
The entire UK depends on fiscal transfers from London, which is the only part of the country that is fully developed. So what benefits London, benefits the job center material complaining about foreigners in the barbaricum (which is the UK minus London).
- rayiner 4y ago> So what benefits London, benefits the job center material complaining about foreigners in the barbaricum (which is the UK minus London) Gee, I wonder why those folks don’t believe Londoners who say they have their best interests at heart.
- mmarq 4y agoBecause the flow of fiscal transfers never stopped. Turn London in an independent state that keeps all its tax income and see how long it takes to Brexit England to realise where the benefits have been coming from.
- rayiner 4y agoOr the hinterland could pull a Hunger Games: https://thehungergames.fandom.com/wiki/The_Capitol https://thehungergames.fandom.com/wiki/The_Capitol. God knows London of all places would have it coming.
- bsder 4y agoAt which point everything collapses--not just London. And what does the rest of the British isles have that the EU or US can't get elsewhere, better? And you would be relying on "modern norms" to protect you against someone invading the isles, exterminating everybody and taking over. This is something people don't seem to get--anarchy sounds nice to lots of people. However, everything doesn't just keep going--everything suddenly stops. Maybe what emerges on the other side on anarchy is better for "the people" (history suggests that the probabilities are against it), but there's a lot of bloodshed and starvation in the meantime. You may get your pound of flesh but will you be alive to appreciate that fact?
- mmarq 4y agoWhich is, in some sense, what happened with Brexit. And the result is that the average Briton is poorer than 6 years ago, while London is kind of holding, but for how long we don’t know.