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Originally Posted by martyh
That's a very jobsworth attitude you have there .Mustn't whatever we do upset those pesky Eurocrats 
Why ? what could possibly be so important to Brussels about deporting a few scummy criminals and not letting them back .We've always been allowed to do it the only reason we don't more often is Brussels makes it so bloody hard.
Why ,when we have left the EU those companies will not be able to employ foreign workers at lower wages and lower conditions ,instead they will have employ some of 2 million sitting on dole and pay a living wage |
My 'jobsworth' attitude is about not throwing two fingers up to the rest of the world by breaking treaties.
Your world may end at our borders and the closest you get to doing business outside the UK working with resident foreigners here or paying for a drink in a bar while on holiday, mine doesn't. My financial wellbeing, along with many others, is dependent on the UK and European economies alongside, to a lesser extent, the rest of the world.
The less antagonism during this process the better for all concerned and something as petty as that isn't worth the hassle. When we're done with Brexit we can go door to door with deportation squads to our hearts' content if we so choose, and going by the way the BlueKIP rhetoric is ratcheting up shouldn't be long before that's on the table.
As far as all those foreigners stealing jobs at lower wages and accepting poorer conditions goes doesn't look like it.
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Theresa May's attitude over the past days has already gone down like a pile of vomit with the EU. We've been repeatedly told that we'll get a great trade because Germany want to sell us their goods, meanwhile the EU has repeatedly informed that we aren't getting any special treatment without accepting the four freedoms.
Much as our three stooges and others like to blow sunshine up our hindmost we clearly very badly underestimate what the EU means to at least some other members. Just as we're happy to put immigration ahead of economy looks as though they're happy to put solidarity ahead of economy.
Not just the politicians either.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...rexit-trade-uk
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The head of Germany’s largest business group has said German firms will not push for a free trade deal between the EU and Britain after Brexit, despite the number of cars and quantities of other goods they sell in the UK.
In remarks likely to be seen as increasing the chance of a “hard Brexit” excluding Britain from the EU single market, Markus Kerber, head of the BDI, dismissed claims that German companies would not tolerate trade tariffs after Britain leaves, and said Germany’s relations with the rest of the bloc were more important.
“I have read a lot of articles in the British press saying Germany would be a relatively soft negotiator because 7.5% of German exports go to Britain,” Kerber told BBC Radio 4’s today programme. “Well, 7.5% is a big number – but 92.5% goes somewhere else.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics...-brexit-stance
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Angela Merkel has significantly stiffened her rhetoric on Brexit, telling an audience of German business leaders that any exception to the EU’s single market rules would represent “a systemic challenge for the entire European Union”.
The German chancellor’s remarks reflect an apparent toughening of positions in European capitals after Theresa May announced on Sunday that the UK would begin formal divorce talks by the end of March and indicated it was heading for a “hard Brexit”.
Merkel appealed to German firms to show a united front with EU governments in negotiations over Britain’s departure from the bloc, urging them to support the principle of “full access to the single market only in exchange for signing up to the four freedoms”.
If any one country was allowed an exception, she said, “you can imagine how all countries will put put conditions on free movement with other countries. And that would create an extremely difficult situation.”
The applause for Merkel’s comments put a further question mark over the argument of British pro-Brexit politicians that German businesses will inevitably pressure their government to preserve their trade links with the UK and resist tariffs.
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