I actually don't disagree with that! I would rather that we create our own Doctors and Nurses from our own population. But unfortunately there's not enough interest and there's a black hole in skilled labour in this country.
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I actually don't disagree with that! I would rather that we create our own Doctors and Nurses from our own population. But unfortunately there's not enough interest and there's a black hole in skilled labour in this country.
Because the sooner gasoline powered cars are banned the better.
There will always be differences between the rich and poor, because you know, the poor have less money. The poor are much less likely to own a car let alone the several that rich families own, taking oil and gas producers for environmental damage won't change that.
Poor people don't drink expensive champagne as much, do you propose to force champagne to all cost £3 a bottle so the poor can afford it?
Ok so the cap limit is back, fine i have no problem with that, but like i already said the combination of the skilled labour we need would very unlikely exceed 50k per year, every year. That quarter of the a million every term. Your perspective of numbers needs to be managed, this was labours mistake
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My "agenda", which is?
If you have a system where the outcome of its design means Black/Asian people have less access than White people, then in any other context the likes of the Guardian would be all over it calling it racist.
It's called "Indirect Racism" and something heavily enforced here, so why isn't indirect racism a problem with the way the EU works?
Let's say I own a nightclub and I had a policy whereby anyone with a British accent can come in for free and not show ID but everyone else has to show ID at all times and pay a £10 entry fee. How long before I would rightly be in court for racial discrimination? That is analogous with the EU, pretending otherwise is asinine.
Since Rob rarely seems to get past the first headline of any story, that wouldn't surprise many people
We should all try to remember this before thinking "but I deserve a flight somewhere nice for my hols".
Also for the people saying fossil fuels are underpriced, this chart agrees:
Fossil fuels are way more expensive than you think.
I like D.P.'s idea but in practice it's a disaster for dual citizens like me. Rather than being pleased to have dual USA/UK citizenship it's becoming very likely I will have to give one up to avoid being double taxed.
Mister Taxman: Why Some Americans Working Abroad Are Ditching Their Citizenships
The idealized solution to things like wealth tax and corporation tax in general is a globalized tray agreement. Something the greens are very much in favor of but they have to be more realistic in the short term.
The US taxation agreement though doesn't mean much if you were to return to the UK for example, you would pay more income tax in the auK than you would in the US so the double taxation agreements mean you won't pay any US tax but have the hassle of filing both UK and US taxes each year.
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Anecdotes don't make data. I've been to a nuclear power station which wasn't doing anything, does that mean all nuclear power stations are useless?
Wind generation cost less than nuclear, oil ,coal and gas production.
Exactly, and if one country had a wealth tax and the other didn't then you would pay the wealth tax.
It may well be indirect racism, but it's not direct racism which you try to imply by specifically stating White Europeans.
And what about the air conditioning engineers, sheet metal workers, etc. The is a massive shortage of skilled workers in this country and 50k simply will not cut it, we had to get one of our AC engineers from Saudi Arabia (great bloke BTW) because everybody these days wants to go to uni for a party, fail media studies and then work at McDonalds, nobody wants to train for a skill.
We have just taken on an apprentice sheet metal worker who I kid you not is the first person to apply in over 20 years!
So did putting a solar panel on my roof, neither are as good a nuclear.
Anyone who is back or white and is born in country in the world but is country an EU citizen has unrestricted right to migrate throughout Europe. There is zero discrimination.
If you control immigration with factors such as education you will also indirectly discriminate. An American is much more likely to have a degree than an Angolan, so your so called discrimination free controlled immigration is more discriminatory.
Your analogy is complete false. A better analogy would be a nightclub owner let's residents in for free but to rusting must pay £10, bouncers check driving licenses and everyone with a UK license get in free wherever they are originally from, people with foreign driving licenses have to pay.
This practice is extremely common and perfectly legal., colloquially known as a tourist tax. You will see it in museums and things.
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It is not even indirect racism because whatever some lens origins if they are resident within the EU then they get the same rights to free unrestricted migration.
The castle in my village does this (not a pub/club, an actual castle).
Enoch Powell wasn't actually a racist he worried that as his constituents were if we allowed more "strangers" in the racists would attack them and cause nationally embarrassing bloodshed like happened in ancient Rome where the blood ran into the Tiber.
Defo a paedo though.
Defo a paedo though.
Tourist taxes are usually applied to everyone, but yes I know what you mean, eg in Cambridge all the residents are allowed into Colleges for free on production of proof of address, I suppose you could call it a tax but its a Non-Resident's fee. Semantics though.
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From spoiling my Vote i am going to UKIP just to upset the apple cart purely on them announcing cutting foreign aid and putting it back in the UK.
Might be pennies, but at least its going to help here and not some backwater and then put in whatever tin pot dictators swiss bank account.
Might be pennies, but at least its going to help here and not some backwater and then put in whatever tin pot dictators swiss bank account.
Longest working hours in europe,
Less Holdays then europe
Zero hr contracts
Less employment law
No unions
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Not sure if you read the link I posted by a British Judge ruled that a school's ban on "gang hairstyles" was indirectly racist because it disproportionately (whilst unintentionally) discriminated against black people.
Now you could make the same argument, that black people don't have to have cornrows so there is zero discrimination but the reality is one group are more affected.
Less of European populations are made up of Black and Asian people than Africa and Asia is, therefore whilst a black person in the EU does have the same rights as a white person born in the EU, the policy states that mainly white countries have more immigration rights than mainly black or Asian countries.
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