"Free movement for students and skilled workers". Will someone keep berni and

[Billy Goat Sverige]

Spot on M. Although it amuses me the way that the EU is always labelled as the whipping boy for immigration.
Estimated non-EU net migration, meanwhile, is 205,000 a year—the highest level recorded since 2011. It has been almost consistently higher than EU migration for decades.

But the majority of non-eu immigrants are either workers or students, no? Start complaining when you get 160,000 refugees arriving in one year, ready to suck on your welfare teats.

[IUFG]

But the majority of non-eu immigrants are either workers or students, no? Start complaining when you get 160,000 refugees arriving in one year, ready to suck on your welfare teats.

Now, why do, say, Romanians come to the UK for work when their domestic rate of unemployment is 4.6%
The UK has unemployment levels of 4.5% and that is typically described as 'almost full employment' (I think you need a certaim amount of unemployment for economics to work properly).

Whereas, EU states with the highest levels of unemployment (Italy, Greece, Spain) you hardly see any immigrants coming to the UK.

So, in short, a lot of EU nationals come to this country for work which they could easily find at home.

Do the UK pay more? ie is our National Living Wage more than a Polish or Latvian worker would get? If so, how does a fúcking common market actually work?

Is it free healthcare in the UK that draws them?

Is it the UK's benefit system?

Who knows?

The only thing I know is . . . it ain't the fúcking weather.

[Pat Vegas]

Now, why do, say, Romanians come to the UK for work when their domestic rate of unemployment is 4.6%
The UK has unemployment levels of 4.5% and that is typically described as 'almost full employment' (I think you need a certaim amount of unemployment for economics to work properly).

Whereas, EU states with the highest levels of unemployment (Italy, Greece, Spain) you hardly see any immigrants coming to the UK.

So, in short, a lot of EU nationals come to this country for work which they could easily find at home.

Do the UK pay more? ie is our National Living Wage more than a Polish or Latvian worker would get? If so, how does a fúcking common market actually work?

Is it free healthcare in the UK that draws them?

Is it the UK's benefit system?

Who knows?

The only thing I know is . . . it ain't the fúcking weather.

there is a massive amount of Italians in the UK.
London is flooded with them. Walk around Muswell hill they are all italians.

[IUFG]

there is a massive amount of Italians in the UK.
London is flooded with them. Walk around Muswell hill they are all italians.

Well, London isn't very representative of the UK as a whole, is it?

[Pat Vegas]

Well, London isn't very representative of the UK as a whole, is it?

I only know about London and essex.

[Sir C]

Now, why do, say, Romanians come to the UK for work when their domestic rate of unemployment is 4.6%
The UK has unemployment levels of 4.5% and that is typically described as 'almost full employment' (I think you need a certaim amount of unemployment for economics to work properly).

Whereas, EU states with the highest levels of unemployment (Italy, Greece, Spain) you hardly see any immigrants coming to the UK.

So, in short, a lot of EU nationals come to this country for work which they could easily find at home.

Do the UK pay more? ie is our National Living Wage more than a Polish or Latvian worker would get? If so, how does a fúcking common market actually work?

Is it free healthcare in the UK that draws them?

Is it the UK's benefit system?

Who knows?

The only thing I know is . . . it ain't the fúcking weather.

It's just salary differentials, innit. Vlad from Bucharest can come and work as a hod carrier for a year, live ina room with 18 other Romanians, and fúck off home with enough money to build himself a house. Mind you, I believe many of them realise what squalid shítholes places like Romania are and decide to stay here, where they may be skint but they won't die of the fúcking Black Death.

[IUFG]

It's just salary differentials, innit.

Whilst I understand that is probably the main reason, surely the cost of living is higher in the UK?

If it isn't a) a common market can't really work and b) a common currency (the Euro, for example) has no fúcking chance if its value varies from country to country.

[Sir C]

Whilst I understand that is probably the main reason, surely the cost of living is higher in the UK?

If it isn't a) a common market can't really work and b) a common currency (the Euro, for example) has no fúcking chance if its value varies from country to country.

The cost of living is higher for us because we're used to the little luxuries in life, like heating and hot water and proper food.

And obviously the common market and the euro don't work. Have you been asleep for the past 20 years?

[IUFG]

Have you been asleep for the past 20 years?

only for about a third of it.

[Luis Anaconda]

The cost of living is higher for us because we're used to the little luxuries in life, like heating and hot water and proper food.

And obviously the common market and the euro don't work. Have you been asleep for the past 20 years?

Yeah, life here is terrible. Wish I was back in the UK spendinh **** loads of worthless money on beer and food