| > NHS and schooling are among the top problems in the UK right now. Add social care for the elderly and agriculture but free trade / free movement just papered over the actual issue. You can temporarily use a form of economic imperialism to bring in people to run key services in your country for lower wages, but if won't solve the real issue and won't last forever, because it only 'works' between countries with relative unequal economies. It also does not compensate the donar country for the large issues it creates there. Key workers are not being paid anywhere near enough to compensate for their importance to the country and to the economy, we are not valuing them no matter where they come from, and we are not training and recruiting enough people locally.
Until this changes, then people are not going to come here to work in the NHS, child care etc. Free movement or not. This issue was coming sooner or later, in some sectors Brexit has highlighted it. If you want more people to come work here, then support the strikes. EDIT. in addition, good quality child care should be provided free by the state, it is a massive benefit to the economy and to society. That's another core issue that was never addressed while we were inside the EU, nor is it (yet) being addressed outside it. |
On the one hand you say that because we paid relatively more than poorer countries, this attracted a lot of people to work here. This is apparently "economic imperialism".
Then you say that if we want more people to come and work here, we should pay even better than we were?