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Well the theory of ending low wage immigration was never tested. As the Economist article notes, low wage immigration is up.
by nonethewiser 3y ago
Well 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.