Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "What does ‘remodelling’ the UK economy look like? - BBC Newsnight" video.

  1. The overall economy is short of about 2 million, about 1.5 working people left the UK economy including a load of Brits whose jobs were transitioning over to the EU because of Brexit. The UK has an aging population as was demonstrated by the stats on hgv drivers having an average age of 55, I used to work in IT am retired but my company closed its UK office couple of years back a large chunk like me just took redundancy and retired early a few went to work in Holland the job market over here is crazy I'm forever getting asked to do projects I was a technical architect working on networking and security. I thought there would be more young people in IT but these 30k vacancies and rising
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  2. Remodelling the economy means free market fundamentalism ran riot, so all the labour laws are going to go as are pollution regulations food standards and then the sell offs anything that they can get away with selling that will including the NHS. Then comes the globalisation big companies flooding the market with cheap imports driving down wages in the UK till the bankruptcies start because you can't compete with cheap far east subsidiesed goods all the while entrepreneurs are unable to trade with a market 20 miles away leading to a brain drain. Both the US and EU markets aren't going to let the UK be a conduit and staging point for cheap far east goods and neither are going to stand for the City being a laundering clearing house for the super rich
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