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Agreed, I'm still not sure why he is so pro-Brexit, it definitely seems to go beyond simply trying to appeal to those in the party/country who voted leave.
However his sentiment in that speach is spot-on: immigration has been good for the UK and using it to deflect away from complicated issues such as housing and employment rights is just a cheap race to the bottom that poisons proper debate.
BlakeG-
Corbyn's not pro-'Brexit'. He has re-iterated, even after Labour took the position is has (which is shifting) that he is personally in favour of 'remain and reform'. However, there has been a referendum decision (whatever stuff about illegal influencing of that is currently coming out) and they have said they have to respect that.
I still think they've successfully seized the high ground that way, as by getting bogged down in all that utter nonsense they would never have been able to build the policy platform that saw them do reasonably well in the last general election. May, bizarrely, wanted to make that election about '"Brexit" or not "Brexit", and they didn't take the bait. The Lib Dems imagined they might make electoral gains by pledging to 'reverse "Brexit"', and that didn't work for them.
Political issues go on the boil and then they go off the boil if you let them. If you keep up a major controversy, they will not go off the boil.
It's far from an ideal situation, but as I've said before, they've been negotiating a minefield.
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Yes so if he now walks the walks... but I'm not holding my breath as you can imagine :)
Immigration is immigrants is people that need the same things, good schools and pensions. We can help if we are allowed to...
Oliver Schick
JWestland
Not really, he does not support freedom of movement after Brexit.
So far I cannot find any data to support dirty furrin's like me have to be regulated with complex (and therefore costly) visa system to ensure life is fair for everyone in the UK.
He talks the talk, partially walks the walk but he's not willing to accept FoM despite all the data showing that EU nationals put more money in the pot and despite EU laws allowing some restrictions...
...and let's just say UK people were welcome when the UK economy was poor 20-30 years ago. I met quite a few people here that told me "oh yeah i used to work in a Dutch factory! and came back to NI".
I am disappoint. I am also a worker. And yes, I wonder more and more if all these visa systems everywhere really achieve what they set out to set, unless it's just about a feeling of control, if so, then yes.
I understand he's not going to go "yeah, let's open the door to everyone!!!" after decades of anti immigration sentiment, but it would be nice if he would base decisions on data/old skool internationalism. Even so he's going against the tide, because the debate in the UK has gone pretty rotten.