Howard-
Workers of the world, unite and all that.
Freedom of movement also allows UK pensioners to easily marry EU citizens, live in EU countries, have access to rights that UK immigration will not grant them, be able to retire easily in the EU AND get low cost healthcare...
...and it turns out that if it is put like that, with the comment that people with no cash/nobody they can live with to pay the bills/and don't have a job can already be evicted, the UK is actually OK with FOM.
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The idea that freedom of movement suppresses wages is a fallacy; I think the left should be defending it (although no one seems to be doing a very good job of this at the moment!)
Here's an article that makes the economic case for open borders if you're interested: https://theconversation.com/the-us-100-trillion-case-for-open-borders-72595
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JWestland
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This for me is the biggest problem with Labour's Brexit policy. Firstly, as you say it has—justifiably—been denounced as 'cakeism'; secondly, and more importantly from a moral perspective, the left should be defending freedom of movement.