The guardian?
Majority of Brexit voters ‘would accept free movement’ to access single market
Europe-wide polling finds UK and EU leaders now out of step with public opinion and pursue ‘ambitious reset’www.theguardian.com
Not me or the dozen or so I know that voted leave agree with that.
Exactly
Yeah I think it comes back to they're "Thatcher's children", born in the 80s where there was a mass switch from working class to middle class as traditional mining, steel and vehicle industries were shut down and the UK's service industries really took off in terms of finance, legal, accountancy and audit....my wife and I both had families that were working class. Her dad was a refrigeration engineer and her mum was a cleaner, a lot of her friends are similar but my wife works in finance for a global corporate law firm, her best friend (whose dad died of industrial disease after working all his life in a factory) is a project manager for a private water company, her other friends are very similar...Blair accelerated that process by pushing up numbers of kids going to university to the point now where 2/3 of kids end up graduating with degrees which has created a labour shortage for lower qualified jobs currently being filled by migrants while there's more and more people leaving uni and ending up doing call centre work or even just living with their parents unemployed as there are too many graduates for graduate level jobs and they won't train as a bricklayer or electrician for example as " i didn't spend 4 years and get myself in £30k worth of debt to be a sparky" ....seems like "education education education" might not have been always a good thing?
I'll tell you where growth doesn't come from: hammering businesses and foreign investors...
Giving public sector workers massive raises and putting up taxes is not how you increase growth. I'm starring to have an uneasy feeling about voting for them.
2.5 million migrants.
Unless Farage gets in, 5 years time and starts mass deportations and let's the finance guys do their thing.
I didn't vote at the last election, knowing Labour would get in but thinking that they'd basically just keep things ticking along how Sunak and Hunt left things but minus all the infighting and dodgy mate dealing that had dogged the tories. I was wrong. Wish I'd held my nose and voted for the tories to keep this lot out. We will be on our knees after 5 years of this. And all the dodgy stuff with mates and donations and taking the constant pi** just carried on. At this rate, don't see how i have a choice not to vote Reform. Literally the only party that even talks about doing anything that addresses the fundamental structural issues we face ...
Below working class there is also 'Non-working class' , a whole group of people, some 2nd or 3rd generation non-working, that don't work and have no intention to.
For me, it is Proportionate Representation I want.
potentially boosting the UK economy by £2 billion a year in the long run....
Been working on it for years, Liz Truss was a surprisingly competent foreign secretary and under her the DIT laid the majority of the ground work for this moment, signing FTA's with Japan, Australia and New Zealand, which were targeted stepping stones to accession into CPTPP, which was effectively approved by CPTPP members beginning of 2022 and we signed the treaty last year with an implementation period ending today....potentially boosting the UK economy by £2 billion a year in the long run....
£2 billion boost to growth as UK joins major trade group
The UK has today officially joined CPTPP as a fully-fledged member, potentially boosting the UK economy by £2 billion a year in the long run.www.gov.uk
Seems a good idea to me.
The good thing about doing deals with those further away though is that often these countries and economies are very different and therefore *non competitive* and we are far more likely to be in a situation where we are providing mutually beneficial services. Australia and NZ produce and
