Starmer's vision quest

[CXRAndy]

Do we actually have to go through the whole 'cutting off of our nose' bit again, like Brexit, before we accept that immigration is not only essential but actually has a large economic benefit?

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Only to gdp.

 

[CXRAndy]

Governed by morons


View: https://x.com/i/status/2018958216864862503

 

[PurplePenguin]

Do we actually have to go through the whole 'cutting off of our nose' bit again, like Brexit, before we accept that immigration is not only essential but actually has a large economic benefit?

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Bigger population, bigger GDP. The focus should be GDP per capita.

 

[Bromptonaut]

If 6 million are better off on benefits* there's something very wrong with the relationship between earnings and living costs.

*Spoiler; they're not.

 

[Bromptonaut]

It was undoubtedly a political appointment probably based on Mandelson knowing how to handle Trump with the Epstein connection a known. But the depth of the sleaze would not have been known at the time.

That. Exactly.

Mandy was known to be able to work with Trump and his EU Commissioner role as a trade negotiator meant he was well equipped for trying to tie up a UK/US deal.

Asked if there was anything in his past that might bite his or the PMs bum he lied or at the very least was economical with the truth.

He was known to be a risk but assessed as a risk worth taking.

Epstein related disclosures in the States revealed the relationship was both longer and deeper than he'd admitted.