Tredman
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But you must have an even standpoint. Thats what Trump is banging on about with US businesses. His import taxes are seeking to ensure that USA industries are competitive with their much cheaper competitiors from abroad by taxing them. He doesnt have freedom of movement to worry about. Currently USA economy is doing ok as his " look after my own" policies gain support. With freedom of movement we have brought the cheaper labour costs that could have been compensated by increased import taxes into the country nulyfying them and making it advantageous to be a foriegn migrant worker in the UK from certain countries. Again, we are not having this conversation with regard to Danish, Swedish or Luxumbourg citizens who see us as a step down economically and financially and whose average wage is significantly higher.I recently retiurned from iceland where fish and chips is about £15 a pop and a beer can be up to a tenner! But their average wage is about 10k higher than here so it compensates. There I found British tour guides, divers etc who are making 10k a year more over there , but they are doing it temporarily to earn a fast buck ( much the same as my electrician example) . Iceland is about 100k square km and England is 130k sq km. there are 300,000 people in Iceland and in England there are 54 million! Thats a helluva difference! No reral property issues on Iceland! If you want a place you can find one! Here? 150k shortfall on houses year on. So many factors impacting on us here and all of them bloody obvious for so long its amazing that people are so shocked that we are where we are.
The blame for all of that lies at the feet of our free market economy in the UK and has almost nothing to do with immigration