Comments by "gerhard7" (@gerhard7323) on "Brexit is a "slow puncture" on the UK economy | Economics | The New Statesman" video.

  1. I know and meet lots of East Europeans, including Poles, through my business and they're all pretty wonderful people to a man or woman. What I would say though is that they are all utterly convinced that that when the time comes they will be able to say no to the EU and its policies including free movement when it eventually inevitably starts to impact their own societies and economies as it has the UK's. Time will tell on that. From personal experience, the other aspect I'm acutely aware of is that a good many of them came to this country with the express intention of making enough money to go back to their own countries, build their own homes and businesses, and live comparatively better lives than their own countrymen who did not leave. Also, those who came to the UK who had children here were extremely keen to have bilingual children - their second language being highly prized English obviously - which would provide them with a huge advantage when they eventually returned home.
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  2.  @KeithWilliamMacHendry  I can only agree with a lot of what you say and clearly your personal experience is different from my own when it comes to my interactions with East European immigrants. That does not make me right and you wrong, it simply makes our experiences different. In my business my experiences have been overwhelmingly positive, but that in no way means that I agree with the policy of FoM and I am acutely aware of the lasting damage it has done to this country. I do not in any way though blame individuals for trying to improve their lot, but I DO blame the political elites who effectively forced this insane social experiment on this country and those self-serving habitual virtue signallers that STILL seek to defend it.
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  3. So Duncan Weldon talks of these problems apparently uniquely afflicting the UK going back 10 or 15 years or more. Years most of which the UK was in the EU. The UK only left the EU at the end of 2020 and that act has made everything change from already previously bad to now markedly worse? Is that correct?
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  4. The GBP has indeed lost ground against the Euro since the single currency's inception at the beginning of this century. What most people fail to mention, including those like the gentlemen above, is that most of that loss, around 15%, occurred between 2000 and 2015 when the UK was still very much in the EU.
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  5. @@Stiff-Upper-Lip Er, no. Bless you. Trying to play the old false dichotomy card, eh? The rest of the world doesn't have free movement and those countries have their own immigration policies. Take some time to look it up if you need to. They do that for a reason. Funnily enough the EU itself has an external border and doesn't allow free movement from outside that border either. Perhaps you imagine it should from your comment? Take a look at recent events in Melilla if you want to see what amounts to a manifestation of EU immigration policy or check out how many billions the EU pays Turkey's Erdogan year on year to house and stop millions coming to Europe from the Middle East. Once you know what you're talking about then, maybe, we can have a sensible discussion about the subject?
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  6. Is this method man Daniel Day Lewis's latest role?
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  7. So Duncan Weldon talks of these problems apparently uniquely afflicting the UK going back 10 or 15 years or more. Years most of which the UK was in the EU. The UK only left the EU at the end of 2020 and that act has made everything change from already previously bad to now markedly worse? Is that correct?
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