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by pas 724 days ago
do some cost of living adjustment with that 50 pounds. and don't forget that they are not allowed to work.

thousands of English families are out of jobs because the UK left the EU, also because the underfunded NHS folks are not getting the care they need and thus many people end up with severe disabilities that would have been manageable. (or they are taking care of someone because there's no help from the system.)
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DarkmSparks 724 days ago
20% of the UK workforce, nearly 9 million employees, were not born in the UK.

leaving the EU has nothing to do with any of the UKs major problems, which are massive national debt, government corruption, complete lack of ethics or values left in any of its institutions, the systematic dismantling of the NHS and a legal system more interested in saving face and protecting wealthy criminal interests than actually practicing justice.

Then wonder why everyone dislikes immigrants getting the lions share of social benefits and having 0% trust in any of the institutions.

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pas 723 days ago
people disliking "immigrants getting too much benefits" - while important for politics - doesn't make it true.

cost of brexit is about 2-3% of GDP roughly the same as spending on immigrants. (most of whom pay taxes.)

also worth mentioning is that the aging UK population would be in an even worse state without those workers.

leaving the EU is a perfect symptom of the other problems you listed.

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/impact-brexit- uk-economy-reviewing-evidence

https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/th...

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