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Old 21-07-2022, 12:43   #4274
jfman
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Re: Britain outside the EU

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY View Post
Brexit was designed to create a temporary shortage of unskilled labour in order to push up wages. This shows that the policy is working.
If that’s genuinely the intent why aren’t we leaving the market to it and instead urging “wage restraint”?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...-b2021380.html

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY View Post
Why increase funding when it needs pruning?

If the size of the public sector is reduced substantially, those remaining can have a pay rise based on increased productivity, just like the railway workers could, and some of that money could be returned to the taxpayer.
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