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There was never a plan for Brexit to boost low-wage sectors. It was a lie by David Cameron to appease the idiot group of conservative voters that thought Europ
by sph 3y ago
There was never a plan for Brexit to boost low-wage sectors.
It was a lie by David Cameron to appease the idiot group of conservative voters that thought Europe was the cause of all ills. A lie that blew up on his face, because he didn't (nor Johnson & co.) expect it to win. And a lie that blew in the British voters' face when it turned out that exiting Europe was a very stupid idea that would not have solved the problem of being a country still in toxic and unresolved love with its imperialistic, classist past.
The day Britain stops believing their are at the top of the most powerful empire in the world, but simply a rich island off the coast of a very powerful trading bloc, they might make something of their position.
The economic way out for Britain requires a lot of humility and taking a serious look at the sort of people that are running this country. Thinking that EU scum are coming here to steal your jobs is certainly not the way to go about it.
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Bonus: Here's Boris Johnson, champion of Vote Leave, after the referendum: https://youtu.be/nbdOsMeVrLw?si=UyVv2_j1M6QcavtC https://youtu.be/nbdOsMeVrLw?si=UyVv2_j1M6QcavtC — quite the somber demeanor for someone who has just won a massive gamble.
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- nonethewiser 3y agoWell the theory of ending low wage immigration was never tested. As the Economist article notes, low wage immigration is up.
- mnd999 3y agoIt’s up because it didn’t work. The investment never happened so the harvest rotted in the fields and Christmas dinner was going to be cancelled so the government quietly reversed course. It was utterly clueless to expect such big changes to happen overnight.
- nonethewiser 3y agoIts not something that will resolve within 1 or 2 years. This goes for Brexit in general. It will take decades for things to shake out and the world will be changing all the while.
- whimsicalism 3y agoIf businesses had confidence in the government to not reverse course, they might have done something. But now, any company that did hire domestic workers was left holding the bag and the government created a moral hazard setup on subsidizing being unresponsive to immigration policy changes.
- mnd999 3y agoThat’s pretty moot. Business would never have confidence because it was pretty obviously a dumb plan.
- sph 3y agoThere is a number of Brexit voters that voted yes to "keep the paki out". It is not only the Polish or Italian immigrants like me that compose low wage immigration; in fact, non-EU immigration is higher than ever. And I'm not even touching the fact that immigration is a great economic boost, but tends to be misconstrued as a negative to avoid by politicians, as if migrants come and sit on their arses living on benefits.
- ta1243 3y ago> but simply a rich island off the coast of a very powerful trading bloc, Not for long https://news.sky.com/story/britains-economic-trajectory-will-soon-see-it-overtaken-by-poland-labour-to-warn-12821152 https://news.sky.com/story/britains-economic-trajectory-will...
- gsatic 3y agoThe EU has not been able to produce pan EU leaders. Without such leaders its not possible to counter such type of politics.
- johannes1234321 3y agoAnything pan-European is hard if you have so many languages and cultures to deal with. With many languages there isn't a general public. For news it's way more interesting to have sound items in the native language than translation and some concepts, some way people grew up won't transalte at all. And then life situation between Germany and Romania varies a lot. There are only very few, if at all, problems shared a politician could campaign on.
- hunglee2 3y agothe fact that accurate analysis reads like hyperbole is another signal as to how big a misstep Brexit really was, and is
- krona 3y ago> There was never a plan for Brexit to boost low-wage sectors. It was pretty much the same plan that has worked for 3 centuries in many countries, especially in the UK. Unfortunately, everyone in government (and more so the civil service) is too bourgeois to care about basic things like "do we have enough electricity" or "why has private investment in the agricultural sector been so poor since 1997?".