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Old 09-06-2022, 17:27   #4106
jfman
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Re: Britain outside the EU

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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
Except you didn’t point that out - you drew a false equivalence between two related but distinct policy objectives, in a perfunctory, Twitter-friendly, two sentence post that, if it didn’t expose your own ignorance, sought to exploit that of others.

Discussion of how likely the present government is to achieve its high-wage aim is legitimate but besides the point you were trying to make. Whatever that was.
I’m not sure it can legitimately be described as a false equivalence. As you describe they are absolutely related policy objectives. Neither policy exists in a vacuum.

If the Government position is that the vast majority of workers should accept real terms pay reductions to reduce inflation longer term then that’s the exact opposite of creating a high skill, high wage economy. It’s a race to the bottom. Which you well know.

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