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Ultimately we, the MLE, are likely to be fine - we're above the line as it were, it'll be the poorer sections of society who get fucked just that little bit harder than they are today by the economies reaction to Brexit. We can all choose to leave - and move to wherever our Financial Services industry ends up, Frankfurt maybe, or Paris. Not an option if you are on a zero hours contract in Nando's.
Couldn't put it better myself. So I won't. Anyway, the weather's lovely here in Switzerland, and as a fully-paid-up member of the MLE I'm looking into ways of staying here. Rats, ship, you know the rest.
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Are you suggesting that you have been adversely affected by the stresses of immigration?
I, and I'd suggest most people "on here" have experienced (and continue to experience) the opposite- by which I mean working with forrins, associating (the thought!) with forrins socially and entering into commercial relationships with them for goods and or services. We've benefitted from our interactions with immigrants. I'm a second generation immigrant, so I've directly benefitted from the ability for people to move to the UK.
Is that because the entire population of LFGSS are members of the metropolitan liberal elite? Possibly. It's also possible that pretty much everything that people have associated with immigration is, in fact, government policy - such as forrins pushing the minimum wage down.
A wage which is defined by legislation - the freedom of the market is to choose by how much they exceed that minimum, not dip under it (unless you are sell trainers, when you're allowed to be as exploitative as you possibly can, then get knighted).
I agree that insulting Brexiteers for being bigots isn't going to change anything - shouting at drivers who give you a close pass doesn't do much either, ultimately, but it's cathartic if nothing else.
Donating money to the campaigns being run by people like Jolyon Maugham who IS doing something - something I'd recommend anyone who cares about where the country is potentially going to do.
Ultimately we, the MLE, are likely to be fine - we're above the line as it were, it'll be the poorer sections of society who get fucked just that little bit harder than they are today by the economies reaction to Brexit. We can all choose to leave - and move to wherever our Financial Services industry ends up, Frankfurt maybe, or Paris. Not an option if you are on a zero hours contract in Nando's.