AdrianKent
Aug 9, 2017 · 1 min read

Sorry for the late reply -just getting to grips with medium.

We don’t lack the labour to bring in our harvests — we lack the investment in either wages or machinery to do it — and remaining in the EU was only going to prolong this chronic problem (which has seen the proportion of GDP going to wages drop from 60% to less than 50 since we joined the EEC). There simply is no incentive to invest in productivity, training or machinery across the board if whoever wants to can simply be undercut by those who don’t.

Good luck with your ‘right’ to work elsewhere in the EU — its baked in neoliberalism and austerity means you can rule out doing so in Greece, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Portugal and many of the other states as the jobs simply do not exist. 30, 40 & 50% youth unemployment rates are the order of the day there. We have a chance to set a new course and a better example — let’s not throw it away on the off-chance that one day we might want to work in marketting in Helsinki.

    AdrianKent

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    A concerned reader who occasionally reads the original sources rather than the press releases. PhD in Applied Psychology & expert in data-mining FWIW.

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