Topic: UK Election on 8th June (and ensuing aftermath) - page 6. (Read 7133 times)

I'm voting for UKIP - we need a clean Brexit to get away from the KeiserReich. May is messing about with stupid negotiated trade deals. Politicians don't make trade deals, they just erect barriers, and raise taxes.

We don't want reduced immigration, we want negative immigration. Stop the toxic immigration, and encourage the beneficial immigration.

I'm voting for UKIP - we need a clean Brexit to get away from the KeiserReich. May is messing about with stupid negotiated trade deals. Politicians don't make trade deals, they just erect barriers, and raise taxes.

We don't want reduced immigration, we want negative immigration. Stop the toxic immigration, and encourage the beneficial immigration.

This is NORWAY..

Norwegians voted ‘no’ to the EU in a heated referendum in 1994 – and we are not regretting it.

According to the most recent poll, 72 per cent are opposed to Norwegian membership of the EU, with only 18.1 per cent supporting it and 9.9 per cent undecided.

Norway has experienced unprecedented economic growth since the ‘no’ vote in 1994.

Annual growth in GDP has been significantly higher in Norway than the EU average.

There has been a strong increase in foreign investments in Norway, more than doubling in the last 10 years alone.

For decades, Norway has enjoyed easy access to the EU market.

Since 1994 through the European Free Trade Agreement (EEA) that makes Norway part of the Single Market.

We believe Norway would be even better off by replacing the EEA agreement with a bilateral trade agreement with the EU.

The EEA agreement is still very much preferable to EU membership. The EEA agreement encompasses less than 10 percent of EU law making. (Source: EUR-lex and annual EFTA-reports)

The EU is both a single market and a political and economic union.

The EEA agreement includes Norway in the Single Market, but we are still independent from most of the European Union. In addition, and more importantly, Norway still has a sovereign right to refuse the incorporation of new EU legislation.

Norway’s monetary policy is decided BY Norway FOR Norway.

The Labour leader indicated that access to the single market, similar to that which Norway currently has, is the relationship Britain should seek after it exits the European Union

Jeremy Corbyn has indicated a Norway-style model would be the best option for Britain when it leaves the EU.

Following a speech at the headquarters of financial data company Bloomberg, Mr Corbyn said in an interview with Bloomberg TV: "We're looking very closely at the Norwegian model. Not using their model, it's learning the lessons from Norway."

Mr Corbyn said the Labour Party “will be pressing for full access to the European single market for goods and services” but with some conditions.

“We should not be falling back on a World Trade Organisation-only trade deal with Europe as that would potentially risk damage to the public finances and significant job losses,” he said.

Norway has full access to the free trade zone but must pay into the EU budget, accept its laws and accept the free movement of the bloc's citizens.

Theresa May has indicated that the referendum result means that controls will be placed on EU migration. The EU’s negotiators have said access to the single market without free movement of people is impossible.

As a Scandinavian who has spent more than a decade living in Britain, nothing has made me feel more foreign than observing the current Labour leadership election. From his style to his policies Mr Corbyn would, in Norway, be an unremarkably mainstream, run-of-the-mill social-democrat. His policy-platform places him squarely in the Norwegian Labour Party from which the last leader is such a widely respected establishment figure that upon resignation he became the current Secretary-General of NATO.

Yet, here in the United Kingdom a politician who makes similar policy-proposals, indeed those that form the very bedrock of the Nordic-model, is brandished as an extremist of the hard-left and a danger to society.

So who is right? Is the Norwegian Labour movement some dangerous extremist group that unknowingly has occupied the furthest leftist fringe of the political spectrum? If so, a casual glance at the UN’s Human Development Index would suggest that Norway certainly has not suffered as a result of successive Labour-dominated governments. Or is it, perhaps, that the British media’s portrayal of Corbyn, and by extent his policies are somewhat exaggerated and verging on the realm of character assassination rather than objective analysis and journalism?

Do you know which home secretary oversaw the highest levels of net migration in UK history?

It was Theresa May, who in 2010 promised the electorate that she would cut net migration to below 100,000, but instead allowed the biggest inwards migration surge in history, with net migration peaking at a huge 336,000 shortly before she was appointed as Prime Minister by her Tory chums.

You might be inclined to disbelieve me because you haven't heard much about this in the media, but there are reasons you haven't heard it. Last year, under pressure from Theresa May's allies in the Tory party the Daily Telegraph spiked an excoriating article about Theresa May's track record at the Home Office.

There are people who really don't want you to know how badly Theresa May handled the immigration situation when it was her remit, and they're the same kind of people who spread lies and misrepresentations about Labour's immigration policies too aren't they?

Theresa May's immigration policy is arbitrary and stupid

Politicians plucking arbitrary numbers out of thin air and making that number their golden objective is as old as the hills. Tony Blair and Gordon Brown did it with their ridiculous 3% borrowing golden rule (you know the rule that drove the expansion of rip-off PFI economic alchemy schemes and was quickly jettisoned to lob £billions at the insolvent "too big to fail" banks).

Theresa May's 100,000 target wasn't just an arbitrary and ridiculous objective that drove lamentable policies, she ended up overseeing the biggest migration surge in UK history.

Two of the dreadful policies Theresa May introduced to try to repress immigration ended up driving away economically beneficial migrants like university students and tens of thousands of non-EU citizens who are married to UK citizens,

Driving away university students in order to juke the immigration statistics has seriously harmed UK universities because foreign students are a massive net benefit to the UK economy. International students contribute £25 billion to the UK economy and support some 200,000 jobs.

Using discriminatory rules to force tens of thousands of British families into exile because one of the adults is a non-EU citizen is also ridiculous. Only an intense bigot would try to argue that migrants who are married to a British citizen are the kind of people the government should be clamping down on. If they're married to a Brit they're highly likely to speak English, assimilate well into British culture, work and pay tax in the UK, and stay here instead of taking their earnings out of the country to return to their country of origin like a lot of migrant workers do.

Despite cruelly wrecking the lives of tens of thousands of families and damaging UK universities with her dreadfully ill-considered immigration policies Theresa May still missed her arbitrary 100,000 target by miles, becoming the Home Secretary who let in more migrants than any other Home Secretary in history!

She set a stupid arbitrary target, introduced terrible policies to try to achieve it, and spectacularly failed by her own measure of success.

If we leave with no deal we go to tariffs ..NOW THIS IS HOW STUPID YOU ARE..
We pay 10% but so do they when they send stuff to the UK..
WHAT YOUR JUST GOING TO LET THE EU CHARGE US ..BUT WE DON'T CHARGE THEM??

In the same year, UK exports to the EU were valued at £223.3 billion, while UK imports from the EU stood at £291.1 billion.

We import 70 billion pounds more each year from the EU..
Now 10% of 70 billion means we gain 7 billion more each year if we both charge 10% on tariffs ..

Norway are out ..They charge the EU well more when they import from the EU..

The free movement of labour between the UK and other EU member states is a valuable asset to the construction industry – with a significant number of skilled and non-skilled roles filled by non-UK nationals.

The construction industry accounts for around three million jobs in the UK (10 per cent of total employment), and a significant number of these professionals are from other EU member states.

"If the UK were to leave the EU, skilled construction workers who would previously have considered coming to the country for work may find it easier to find work in France, Germany or Spain,” explains Manchester.

Freedom of movement is seen by many to be at the very cornerstone of the UK construction industry’s success, accommodating the combination of a varied selection of skills in this multi-discipline environment.

Mark Webb, chairman of the property and construction group at Smith & Williamson explains: “When considering that the key components of the sector are also cornerstones of the EU, access to labour and flexible working, it is less shocking.

"The survey highlights the concern within the industry that should a Brexit happen there is a very high likelihood of access to labour declining as margins are squeezed.”

Glasgow Roofing Service's director Jamie Wood also fears that if immigration laws change it would leave Britain worryingly short of tradesmen in the construction and housebuilding sectors.

“Why would workers struggle across to Britain with strict emigration laws?” he asks.

Paul Payne, managing director of construction and rail recruitment specialist One Way, expects support from specialist professionals across the EU to become more difficult, potentially slowing down project timelines and stalling completion dates.

“Our construction workforce could miss out on gathering new insight and skills from their EU counterparts. In a field where new developments and green initiatives impact the way we work, the ability to gain experience from across the continent is hugely beneficial in staying ahead of the curve,” he says.

Wood also expects the cost of labour to rise and for small contractors and business owners “this is a worrying notion,” he says.

The current cost of construction has increased by average eight per cent on labour cost in the last six months and is set to keep on rising, explains Monika Slowikowska, founder of Golden Houses Developments.

“By leaving the EU, we predict that this could increase by an extra 15 to 20 per cent,” she says.

Only 15% of construction executives favoured a UK exit from the EU but the industry must now come to terms with the reality of the UK’s departure from the European Union.

So what are the possible implications?
The construction industry relies heavily on a skilled and non-skilled migrant workforce. It is feared that outside of the EU (which guarantees the right to free movement) the existing skills shortage could worsen. If immigration is limited, particularly for skilled workers, the UK could witness higher project costs where labour demand outstrips supply.
This could have a knock-on effect on housebuilders abilities to meet the government’s housing targets, with potential cost increases for the housing market and construction companies. This further decline in housebuilding could deepen the housing crisis.