One seems certain is that this is going to go the way of the Scottish Referendum and won't be settled, either way, on the 24th. I think this has been quite a bitter and divisive campaign and the EU issue will become even bigger. If we Remain? There will be moves to depose Cameron from backbench Tories and another referendum on the schedule within a few years. Leave? Negotiations to Leave will dominate, Cameron will likely resign, other Tories/MPs might try to get an early election to try and overturn the result before it's final and stall the process of Leaving until they do.
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Originally Posted by Osem
You can easily be undercut if you happen to earn more than the minimum wage which is what 99.9% of qualified tradesmen would have been.
How close to the minimum wage are you and how would you feel if an influx of cheap labour from the former Soviet state Undercutdamien was to flood the UK and do you out of a job? That's a 'right' we could all do without IMHO. It's no accident that those in favour of free movement generally seem to be from professions which don't suffer. Odd that eh?...
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I think that's just the way of politics. People vote their own self-interest most of the time. I imagine not many people from Leave are in jobs which depend on free movement either. Likewise Thatcher doesn't have many fans from the mining communities but does amongst more white-collar workers.
I don't actually know how tradesman have been affected from EU migrations to tell you the truth. It should be easier to quantify but I couldn't find any statistics when I googled. I just threw that out as an example of a demographic which is more likely to be impacted by freedom of movement.
The problem with wages though is that we're not just competing with each other but also the rest of the world. Manufacturing for example declined in part because we can't compete as much with the likes of China/Asia. That might change if the Pound tanks but that would cause a loss of jobs elsewhere. If we Leave then many workers, such as Steel workers in Wales, will still be hurting from the impact of globalisation.
I don't know how we deal with that but Leave or Remain it will still be an issue.