Yes, I think so. People are human beings first and foremost. What are wars if not conflicts between people who think their nation/religion/race are better than another? Are you telling me you had some hand in where you were born?
Pete asked what link there was between free movement and free trade. Allowing people to move and work where they want is a key part of that. I'm not really sure where the controversy is?
Ok, I'm discounting the Daily Mail because it's the Daily Mail. The second one is a consultation (has it had a result?), and one that I don't personally agree with. There are rules in this country around pay and conditions. The nationality of the worker is irrelevant, just as where a job was advertised is. As it is, the article you link to uses exactly the same kind of rhetoric, it doesn't say anything about the scale of this issue, what industries it occurs in. Nothing. It's tabloid stuff.
Likewise with the Guardian piece. It's one person. Are we to decide policy on the anecdote of one person? The following post by
@tsubaki at least shows an attempt to properly study an issue.
It's perhaps worth noting that most developed economies have what's known as a globalisation fund to support people and communities that have seen jobs lost as a result of globalisation. Whilst members of the EU we had access to the sizeable fund but have deliberately chosen not to use it in preference to our own fund (taking back control innit). Great, except a recent freedom of information request revealed that fund had £2.5 million in it last year. Just goes to show how seriously the government give a damn. Dem foreigners though.
That is interesting, but I feel it does conflate correlation with causation. There are many things that have happened since 2008 that have influenced wages. How did they determine that it was the result of migration? Indeed, another LSE study shows that despite migration rising, the wages (and employment levels) of British workers has been rising at the same time -
http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/brexit05.pdf
This same study even finds that towns with a high influx of migrant workers does not see any growth in unemployment for native workers, even in low skilled areas. There is some evidence that migrants often accept lower wages than natives, but this is often in areas such as health and social care where costs are incredibly tight, so it's by no means guaranteed that a migrant leaving will mean a job for a native person. If it does, then we'll probably see costlier care homes and so on as a result, that's assuming that it doesn't result in higher automation.
Very good lol As Oscar Wilde once said, selfishness isn't living how one wishes to live, it's asking others to live how you wish to live. If someone wishes to be a racist simpleton in their own time then frankly that's their choice entirely. When those people dictate government policy for everyone else however...
As for failure, a country can't fail because it's a legal entity, no more. If you're of Hungarian descent then you're only too well aware of how borders have changed so frequently in the past 100 years. Yes, I wish this notion of Brexit and the awful, populist undercurrent that is sweeping the western world at the moment fails and fails miserably. Again, I'm sure you're only too well aware of rhetoric of Orban and his delightful tactic of peppering the border with pigs heads. I think he is rather fond of what Brexit represents too. Charming man.
