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Originally Posted by Osem
Well they change the argument to suit themselves and the day of the week. I fail to see how any migrant who's earning a low income and receiving IN WORK BENEFITS (e.g. working tax credit, child tax credit, child benefit) can be much of a net contributor to UK PLC, especially since many of them will also be sending money back home.
As for the 'bonfire of workers rights' argument, well it's frankly puerile. Until 5 minutes ago Corbyn was a sincere believer that the EU wasn't good for the man in the street and that Labour is the party of the working man. Presumably he now feels that with him as its leader Labour is so unelectable that he'd rather us be run by unelected suits in Brussels. It's laughable.
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Originally Posted by j52c View Post
What I sometimes fail to understand is that most polticians say that all the majority of the immigrants pay all their taxes and put a lot back into the economy. Let us face it, a big majority of all immigrants will be on low wages and will claim tax credits and other benefits to make their wages up and will still not pay any income tax due to the increase in personal allowances. Then, most of these will be claiming child benefit for their children back home, plus they will be send the biggest part of their earnings back home to the families there. How is that benefitting our economy. The only person benefittiing is their employer.
This is a cracking argument j52c, wish I'd thought of it. They change their stories more than I change my socks. I'll be sure to use that argument in the next 16 days.
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Originally Posted by Damien
A rare bit of good news both sides can agree on: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...endum-deadline
Remain or Leave it's best that it is decided by a large turnout and it's encouraging to many young people signing themselves up to the electoral register considered the poor turnout in elections for that age group. |
Yes I can go along with that, however, does a large turnout not mean remain have a better chance of winning?