Brexit, for once some facts.

You are speculating. Brexit has not happened yet.
There is no way at the moment to say that the economic situation is going to change drastically after we are out.
The only proposed red lines that we know of are: controlled EU immigration and no participation in the ECJ.
I'm not speculating about anything. You said:

"I can't see what I have got out of the EU myself."

which is simply terrifying that you're so ignorant of what's going on around you.

Especially when you then in your very next post say:

The situation is similar in France and Germany. I go there quite often.
The driver of my container this week comes from Romania. He said he earns 4 times more working here, delivering containers, than in his country. He works two weeks, goes home a week to see his family then comes back. I would say 4 out of 5 container lorry drivers that I meet are from outside the UK.
Can you not see how this entire statement is how YOU benefit from being in the EU.

Those lorry driver are here because we need them, you can go to France / Germany easily ... because of the EU.
 

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Those lorry driver are here because we need them, you can go to France / Germany easily ... because of the EU.
I could go to UK and Germany well before the UK joined. Only had to show my passport or my carte nationale d'identité. Nothing changed after the UK joined.
About the drivers: how can you compete with people, just as capable, who want to earn 4 times what they would, doing the same job in their home countries?
If you think you do, then you don't understand the plight of some of us.
 

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But to put hopes into EU as saviours of socialism is equally unrealistic.
I do think a change in labour policies would be a step in right direction.
A change in Labour policies?

What would be the point of changing from socialism which is the fundamental of the Labour movement. Blair did that, turning it into an alternative Tory party leaving the electorate with a lack of real choice.
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A change in Labour policies?

What would be the point of changing from socialism which is the fundamental of the Labour movement. Blair did that, turning it into an alternative Tory party leaving the electorate with a lack of real choice.
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They would not havee to alter all way to Blair.
Any parties first priority must be to get elected, without power all the ideal policies are worthless. The fact Corbyn gains so little support simply shows his policies/ statements are not what country want. All labour governments have had to compromise on some issue or another. Corbyn is in capable of doing so, his more politically astute mp's don't support him but his grass root idealists do. That will never be enough to see hiim elected. He must give way on some thing ( I think his Nuclear and defence opinions should be less of a priority for him at moment)
He should decide and prioritise, compromise on others ( even if its against his morals) to be able to achieve something on the important social issues. As it is Tories dontt have to moderate even their manifesto. They could even say they are intent on exploiting work force and still get in. Its a one party democracy at moment and will stay as such until Labour learns to moderate .( and sack Diane Abbot)
 
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I could go to UK and Germany well before the UK joined. Only had to show my passport or my carte nationale d'identité. Nothing changed after the UK joined.
About the drivers: how can you compete with people, just as capable, who want to earn 4 times what they would, doing the same job in their home countries?
If you think you do, then you don't understand the plight of some of us.
I know lorry drivers!! I ride with a good few of them, they earn good money and they are from the UK. The reason companies have to get foreign work is because not enough UK nationals will do it. You really think they'd rather pay a Romanian than a local? Its because the locals won't do it. So you are benefiting, because the only way the locals would consider it is if the wages went up and up and up. Then guess what, you'd be paying for it. No improvement in service, or product, it would just cost more.
 
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Blair did that, turning it into an alternative Tory party leaving the electorate with a lack of real choice.
on the contrary!
You can't win elections if you don't have the middle classes voting for you.
Blair gave to the middle classes a choice that Michael Foot then Neil Kinnock never did.
 

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The fact Corbyn gains so little support simply shows his policies/ statements are not what country want.
This is simply not true, the people most certainly want the things that Jeremy Corbyn promotes such as more money for the NHS, smaller class sizes and doing away with university charges.

The only reason they are not voting for them is that they've been brainwashed into thinking Jeremy Corbyn is useless by the Tories and their media.

They've done that successfully to many left wing leaders and their MPs, but on the one occasion when they failed and the Labour leader got in together with his ridiculed MPs, he proved to be the best prime minister for the people that this country has ever had and his MPs became some of the highest achieving ministers ever.

I'm speaking of Clement Attlee, Nye Bevan, Ernest Bevin et al of course, the founders of our widely admired welfare state and NHS.
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on the contrary!
You can't win elections if you don't have the middle classes voting for you.
Blair gave to the middle classes a choice that Michael Foot then Neil Kinnock never did.
No, he gave a choice of the same, and large numbers complained of exactly that.

And most of the so called middle classes are nothing of the sort, they are working class with pretensions. They will eventually realise that when the Tories leave them further and further behind in the wealth stakes,
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And most of the so called middle classes are nothing of the sort, they are working class with pretensions.
let's change the word middle classes to middle income classes to avoid confusion.
It is clear that Blair won over a large number of middle income voters from the tories.
Something that Foot and Kinnock never did.
 

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This is simply not true, the people most certainly want the things that Jeremy Corbyn promotes such as more money for the NHS, smaller class sizes and doing away with university charges.

The only reason they are not voting for them is that they've been brainwashed into thinking Jeremy Corbyn is useless by the Tories and their media.

They've done that successfully to many left wing leaders and their MPs, but on the one occasion when they failed and the Labour leader got in together with his ridiculed MPs, he proved to be the best prime minister for the people that this country has ever had and his MPs became some of the highest achieving ministers ever.

I'm speaking of Clement Attlee, Nye Bevan, Ernest Bevin et al of course, the founders of our widely admired welfare state and NHS.
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I don't see it that way at all Flecc in regards to Corbyns popularity . His position is self inflicted, from his regard of Diane Abbot ( in both senses) to his stance on Trident,Nuclear power and defence. Even his insistence on being filmed leaving his (ex) council house. Its fine been a man of the people and down to earth but voters still want what they perceive as a successful man..voting for Corbyn is like voting for that idealist living on council estate down the road. All your heros( which I agree with) were perceived as successful and had right policies. Unfortunately Corbyn has neither. Short clever Milliband should come back from states and win this election for Labour.
Are you saying even labour MP,s have been taken in by right wing press, because he doesn't even have their support.??
 
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All your heros( which I agree with) were perceived as successful and had right policies.
The Corbyn policies I quoted were exactly the same socialist policies. For all you know Attlee may well have been as anti-nuclear as Corbyn and was very likely to have been, but being at the end of a war he didn't have to face that issue

Short clever Milliband should come back from states and win this election for Labour.
I agree David Miliband is their best hope.
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The reason companies have to get foreign work is because not enough UK nationals will do it.
You explain so much better than I! Let me repeat your line:

'The reason companies have to get foreign work is because not enough UK nationals will do it'

After brexit, if there are not enough local lorry drivers taking up the jobs then the solution is to increase their wages.
If I were a local lorry driver, would I be financially interested in voting for brexit?
Replace the word lorry drivers with builders, plumbers, electricians, teachers, nurses, doctors, whatever profession you like, the majority will fit the argument.
 

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I could go to UK and Germany well before the UK joined. Only had to show my passport or my carte nationale d'identité. Nothing changed after the UK joined.
About the drivers: how can you compete with people, just as capable, who want to earn 4 times what they would, doing the same job in their home countries?
If you think you do, then you don't understand the plight of some of us.
... Woosh, please try and remain factual. You could go from France to Germany because both were in the EEC, you could go from France to UK, as a visitor using a passport. You had no rights when in the UK. The only sovereign country where it's citizen's had some rights to the UK was Ireland, and that was for historical reasons.
You acquired rights while in the UK, mostly as a result of successive EEC EU treaties. That you have acquired naturalised British citizenship was facilitated by your EU citizen status. That you would be welcomed back to Normandy,, should you choose, would be because of your EU citizenship.
That my daughter , sister and brothers can live and work in UK is due to a combination of EU citizenship and Irish nationality, but that my other sister can live in Germany is a sole result of EU membership.
 
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You explain so much better than I! Let me repeat your line:

'The reason companies have to get foreign work is because not enough UK nationals will do it'

After brexit, if there are not enough local lorry drivers taking up the jobs then the solution is to increase their wages.
If I were a local lorry driver, would I be financially interested in voting for brexit?
Replace the word lorry drivers with builders, plumbers, electricians, teachers, nurses, doctors, whatever profession you like, the majority will fit the argument.
... In respect of lorry drivers local or international will there be such a demand in the UK for them post Brexit?. If wealth decreases, there will be less economic activity, less imports less, long distance transport. And whatever long distance lorries there are will be stuck in multi mile tailbacks at custom clearance posts at Dover , Newry , Zeebrugge etc.or perhaps Glasgow? This last bit is just opinion.
 
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. If wealth decreases, there will be less economic activity, less imports less, long distance transport.
you are talking about 2% decrease.
As I said before, I am qualified to work in both UK and France, brexit does not affect me much.
 

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you are talking about 2% decrease.
As I said before, I am qualified to work in both UK and France, brexit does not affect me much.
As as been said a number of times Brexit has not yet happened. So I am not going to speculate, what if it is 10% or 20% not 2% of a reduction. ? As I write this I am listening to a speech by Mr Barnier, to our irish parliament, and he is well informed about our local requirements. He has more detail than any of bland assertions from Westminster
 
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As as been said a number of times Brexit has not yet happened. So I am not going to speculate, what if it is 10% or 20% not 2% of a reduction. ? As I write this I am listening to a speech by Mr Barnier, to our irish parliament, and he is well informed about our local requirements. He has more detail than any of bland assertions from Westminster
And what if as Peter Hargreaves suggests we have a 10% increase ??? But that is too optimistic no doubt..
 

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And what if as Peter Hargreaves suggests we have a 10% increase ??? But that is too optimistic no doubt..
.. that could happen.. I suspect that it will not. The UK could develop a new technology which the world wants and is willing to pay for .. like arm processors , they could become global giants in financial management, but by cutting themselves away from the worlds largest market, and making their courts the arbitrator in trade disputes is no longer a runner.

We all can play the speculation game.
 
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