clint van damme
Well-Known Member
We are employing more people than ever before. There are 3,5 million EU citizens living and working here and 1 point something unemployed. Send home legal migrants and the economy collapses. Just on the maths. If you revert to 70s Britain , as Corbyn is suggesting, the government ends up directly or indirectly, supporting inefficiency and medium term the economy will collapse.
If you increase and control the minimum wage, you increase domestic demand and put pressure on firms to increase efficiency to get the best out of the workforce.
At least it would be worth a try. We know how 70s Britain ended, why go back down that road? We need a younger leader of the opposition and to get away from Corbyn‘s hankering after his youth.
We also need to stay in the CU and SM. Relying on millionaires and dodgy politicians promising sailing into a glorious sunset outside of the relative safety of a domestic market of 500 million people is a risky venture.
I agree with much of what you say but I just think it's a bit rich that Corbyn is being criticised for sticking to what he put in the manifesto.
If people wanted the result of the referendum ignored they should have voted lib dem.
As you know I voted remain but the result was what it was. I have said the only way I would support a second referendum is if the leave campaign were found guilty of electoral fraud. Now even though they have been I'm not sure if the current charges are serious enough to demand another vote.