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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
It isn't quite as easy as that Eric, those who are in the EU can come here whether we need them or not. The last government encouraged mass migration with what we now see, has had disastrous results....because many of these people do not have skills and they take jobs that the unskilled here would have taken.....and the added incentive for employers is that they will work for less.
Personally, I would like to see our immigration policy be modelled on that of Australia.
Those who drain the economy are very likely to be from the Eastern bloc of the EU than from anywhere else.......so we really have no say in the matter.
It is a farce.
And you have to be here and see what is happening to get the full picture.
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And so it comes back to the EU .... if the consequences were not so serious, it would be funny to see the politicians scrambling around looking for a solution when there is one staring them in the face: whatever the benefits of the EU, it doesn't work for the benefit of the UK. (NAFTA isn't bad. Sure the US nixed the idea of a pipeline from Alberta to the Gulf; all our govt. said was: "If you don't wan't our oil, we'll build a pipeline to the Pacific and sell to the Chinese. Have a nice day." Of course the yanks are now squirming around trying to explain to unemployed Americans why they have turned down billions in investment and tens of thousands of jobs.)
I remember a Larson "Far Side" cartoon. A bunch of cops are in an office. A dead body, riddled with bullets is slumped over a desk. There is a machine gun on the floor. The walls are full of clocks, there is a clock on the desk, and the stiff is wearing a watch. All the timepieces are riddled with bullets, and all show ten minutes before three (or whatever time). One of the coppers says: "We have the corpse, the murder weapon, a motive, and a suspect; now, if only we could fix the time of death .... " Well, something like that anyway, but I presume you get the picture and the point.
