Re: Brexit bollocks
Wow. Just Wow.
1) "The areas that voted out are among those that have been hit worst by membership "
Apart from all that European development fund money that our own politicians would only give lip service to when there is an election looming. *cough*Johnson*cough* Areas with a large industrial base that stand to lose the most from trade barriers or tariffs with our largest market.
2) Leaving is not a left/right divide, it is a divide between those who can think, can read history, can look at the disaster of the last 40 years how the UK has risen from going cap-in-hand to the EMF in the 70's and become the 2nd (3rd?) largest economy in the EU... and understand its causes and the remainers leavers who just lap up the bbc bollox. {Why are they giving Steve Bannon airtime?} FTFY
3) I partly agree with you here, with the caveat that high wages for such workers mean higher prices.
4) "most of pension age have some pension provision so are actually pretty unlikely to be affected"
Depends on the pension. If it is sensitive to market swings, no dice. If you have an annuity and inflation starts to rise, there will be issues.
5) "No one reads the daily mail"
Number 2 newspaper by circulation. So no one reads the Daily Mail only so far as no one reads newspapers anymore.
6) I agree with you here. At the moment, Labour is hemorrhaging supporters because it is trying to not pick a side. It wants to be Leave for the trade unions, and remain for the Metropolitan Champagne Socialists. Brexit party and Lib Dems vote as increases because of this.
7) Meh
8) "There is nothing to keep you in the UK"
There is nothing to keep *skilled* people in the UK. Which is ultimately the point of the article. Why would other countries want more shop assistants?
"This will allow them to create the new plant, new machinery, new jobs that we need to compete"
You've basically described Labours traditional MO. Also - Who is "them"?
Last I checked JLR is foreign owned. Dyson the massive patriot is fucking off. BAE is mostly American.
Capital doesn't give a shit about borders unless it affects the bottom line. If it becomes costly to do business here (eg Tax, Tariffs, regulatory issues), capital will be re-invested elsewhere, nothing personal, just good business. You want to subsidise you industry? That's fine, well take some of those Tax breaks, thank you very much (*cough*Amazon*cough*) This is happening in the manufacturing industry right now. Sunderland being closed, Fords engine plant, New vehicles being manufactured in other countries, not here.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
