Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "Heresies Ep.9: The Left's Battle with the White Working Class - Labour's New Class War (4k)" video.

@williamvorkosigan5151 If you have staff shortages in the NHS how can they make it worse? The UK has an ageing population and a birth rate of 1.6 it needs to be 2.1 to maintain the current numbers. You need 400,000 additional workers just to stand still pay the taxes and man the old people's homes. If you have an alternate solution which is viable to a fundamental economic problem which doesn't involve shrinking the economy and leaving care homes and the NHS with chronic staff shortages then people will listen. By the way I work in IT and am primarily a numbers guy also studied economics and English literature way way back and have a tendency to look at things as a an abstract maths problem the cultural war stuff doesn't push my buttons in the slightest I do find the conversations fascinating.
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@williamvorkosigan5151 You get freedom of movement or you don't its not a 5 year portocabin thing. By the way EU workers supplied +£84,000 in taxation over time to the treasury verses a UK home grown worker. If housing transport schools the NHS aren't functioning as you'd like that's the governments fault not the migrant workforce they actually add value to the economy
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The populist right bang on endlessly about a topic that is used as a tool to get you to vote against your own economic interests. None of them will block immigration because if they did the country would spiral down the toilet economically, the Tories will bang on about it yet in the background still keep handing out visas Unlike when we were in the EU people could just move seamlessly from 1 country to the next now you will get permanent migration from the Indian sub continent Philippines and Nigeria just go look at the latest home office data. Loath it as you may migration keeps economies growing growth means more taxes for the exchequer and in the Tories case more to siphon off to their rich friends.
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@legendaryjonblue And you think the Cons are going to bring in legislation that bans Fire and ReHire Zero hour Contracts etc.. Minimum wage sub contracting etc need looking at as well.
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@legendaryjonblue There's 1.3 million vacancies and no matter what the Cons say there not going to stop migration in or out. Why Economics Our birth rate is 1.6 it needs to be 2.1 300, 000 net doesn't even cover the death to birth ratio to keep the population stable Also 50,000 people migrate out of the UK every year The model the Cons are using is predicting a population growth of between 0.4 and 0.6% someone has to pay the taxes So they'll just play you along blame Johnny foreigner make loud noises then hand out visas like confetti behind your back My advice to you is worry about your pay packet not some imaginary enemy that there using to screw you over with
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@asnowman8094 wage suppression is a feature of government not migration for all Blaire's faults average wages went up by +25% in real terms. The increase is driven by efficiency and investment, things like public transport subsidising childcare after school and holiday clubs affordable public housing and taxing companies appropriately. You also make minimum wage a living wage you look now after 12 years of Tory bollox 80% of people on benefits are in work education and health are pared to the bone and company profits are sky high. If you want an example on how to level up a country look at East Germany the West plowed 2 trillion into it over 20+ years Blaming migrants is your standard fascist playbook don't look here look over there there the enemy, ramp up the rhetoric to demonise and dehumanise them breeding hate for a problem they created
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