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This is an inherently nationalist proposition, as it prioritises 'our working classes' over anyone who would come here to work. Why should I have any more affinity with an 'English' person than a 'Polish' person or an 'Romanian' person? What is the moral argument to prevent people coming here outside of nationalism?
The real issue is effective enforcement of workers rights and the minimum / living wage.
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Where do you draw the line? Your neighbours in your street or town, your cousins, your siblings, your children, your wife? Who should you care for over and above you?
I'm not taking this your a racist bullshit for wanting the best for British people. There's nothing wrong with a healthy amount of nationalism.
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@Señor_Bear didn't exclude the working classes of the migrant's states did he?
I know many Hungarians (here in the uk) who were vocal about Tesco's expansion into their home country. The free market gave the British company a green light to first decimate local independent retailing there, then the wages.
Nationalism though, is basically never helpful IMHO.
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If you allow free movement of people between countries that have vastly different standards of pay and welfare then the people of the poorer countries will migrate to the richer countries and depress the salaries in that country until such time as there is parity across Europe.
This will be suffered hardest by the low-skilled, low-paid of the richer countries - our working class.
The ultimate effect is a rise in inequality as a result of EU migration which is unable to do anything to fix it because it's a technocracy and is resolutely committed to the 4 freedoms, one of which is hugely detremental.