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Old 30-05-2024, 11:57 AM #17
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Farage: This is a bold, innovative policy

Nigel Farage hailed a “bold, innovative policy”, adding: “I can hear the multinationals wailing already because you’re quite right, we have become addicted to cheap foreign labour.”

Mr Farage said legal migration was the “really big elephant in the room” amid an understandable focus on the Channel crisis.

“I really do believe this should be the immigration voters. You ask voters, what are their priorities? The subject of immigration has gone from fifth a few months ago to second or third depending on which pollster you look at.

“So what are the big priorities of the electorate? Well, cost of living clearly is one of them. What greater cost of living is there for the average family, for ordinary folk, in this country than the cost of either renting a property or the cost of buying a property? It is the biggest capital outlay that people face.

“We need to build one new property every two minutes just to accommodate current levels of net migration.”
I don't think it's untrue that the UK economy has become WOEFULLY (and shamefully) dependent on cheap labour from people coming into the UK to work, often at effectively way below minimum wage ("technically" making full time minimum wage, but in reality working a 60h to 80h week thus earning 50-75% of minimum wage per hour worked).

However the solution to this is in tackling the "gig economy" - not "stopping the boats". The solutions are much more complex but they're boiled down to daft, unreaslistic, unworkable simplicities like physically stopping people.

Stop the ability for people to effectively be working in the UK as indentured servants on £5 an hour. Stop the huge multinational companies that are making this a thing.

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