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Originally Posted by Chloé Palmas
Wouldn't that be an irony if the UK stayed in the SM / CU and everything else was thrown away but Eastern European immigrants still had free movement rights in the UK etc?
I do differ with you slightly, I have even had dreadful experiences with some myself but on the whole I do see their contribution to the UK as a net gain. Some bad apples, sure. Though I would never cast such a wide net / dispersion over all of them.
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I've only really had good experiences with them and I've worked with hundreds if not thousands of them over the years, I do dispute their contribution though especially in terms of tax over the last 5 years though as
a lot of them don't earn enough to pay tax!
You could say that them doing
the jobs we don't want is contributing though as it opens up a new tier of jobs for British workers but does that repair the damage they did to the British workforce 20 odd years ago when they were living 5 to a house and undercutting us left right and centre, back then I was shouting leave from the roof tops to anyone that'd listen but in my experience they're not like that anymore, which is why I voted remain, that and no one had a convincing enough reason that leaving would be worth all the effort, they don't want to work 300 hours a month anymore or share houses with half a dozen others.
The perception I mentioned is that they're the reason you can't get a doctors appointment, which when you think about it is nonsense, young, fit people don't need to visit doctors regularly, the reason you have to phone the doctor in the morning for your appointment now is because of the huge number of appointments that are missed and the other one is housing but again that's not entirely their fault as they're not in charge of housing policy or infrastructure, they're imo being blamed for things that should be laid at governments door oh and the other thing is how hard working they are compared to us, I've never met one yet whose work is consistently up to my standard or one who does the hours I do either