Portuguese colleague, obvs concerned about Maybots Rhetoric just checked, even with 10 years residence her & her husband will have to find 2.5grand each to apply for settled status.

Really? Where did she check? The side of a bus?

Says here it’s sixty-five quid:

https://www.gov.uk/eea-registration-certificate/permanent-residence

I still cant see any evidence that Brexit is going to be a problem

😯

That is like claiming May is doing a great job and you cannot see any reason to criticise her or claiming the PLP loved Corbyn pre election.

Its fine to support your side but not the point of delusion

still cant see any evidence that Brexit is going to be a problem

Because it’s going so fing swimmingly well to date!

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Just back from Ireland for a long weekend. They were all very concerned when I told them the Eurozone was about to collapse, that Ireland would be full of hundreds of thousands of Turkish migrants any day now and that they’d soon be voting in a far right government. I get the feeling they thought I was bullshitting them after a while.

Anything beyond a main road could do with a bit of work, but I was surprised – it wasn’t anywhere near as “backward” or as “primitive” as jamba makes out.

You have to wonder why they were so reluctant to ratify the EU constitution the,selves, don’t you?

Never a bad idea to ask twice in case there are second thoughts.

The EU does / did sod all that was any good for UK – single currency – no, Shenghen – no, democratic – no, accountable – no, a positive economic force – no, cost effective – no. lets just accept the democratic vote and get on with it

oh dear, where to begin

single currency, well not so great for greeks, but we arent in it, been great for the city of london though and much easier for holidays

schengen, again we arent in it! but not surprising considering how ignorant you are…
For any two countries in the Schengen area, total trade between them increases by approximately 0.1% per year. The same amount of increase in trade is gained again for every 1% annual increase in immigration between the countries. On average, at each border the removal of controls is equivalent to the removal of a 0.7% tariff, and the cost savings on a trade route increase with the number of internal borders crossed.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/twec.12158/full
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/ATAG/2016/579074/EPRS_ATA(2016)579074_EN.pdf

also benefits other countries including us
http://voxeu.org/article/trade-costs-border-controls-schengen-area

Acountable, democratic- why not ask the MEP you voted for?
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/map.html

heres the doozer

I still cant see any evidence that Brexit is going to be a problem

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/after-brexit-1000-new-laws-will-be-passed-with-no-parliamentary-scrutiny-a7656981.html

Huge volume of Brexit laws threatens to overwhelm UK government

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/brexit-to-cost-britain-more-than-5-of-gdp-by-2030-say-city-economists-a7541616.html

and it will cost us billions
http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/brexit02.pdf
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brexit-civil-servant-wage-bill-9758665

also you may have noticed but ever since the leave vote the country has been bitterly divided and politically unstable

anyway, moving on

Really? Where did she check? The side of a bus?

Says here it’s sixty-five quid:

not sure was on a .gov website, ill get the details off her tomorrow

Probably mixing up price of application for ILM with the one for citizenship. It’s the second they’ll need if they want to be treated as fellow humans by this ridiculous country, and carries the far higher price. The queue is huge though, and about to get ridiculous. Welcome to the beuocracy. Also note that May is only offering the former not the latter to rEU citizens already here… not sure why (he lies).

I mean why wouldn’t you want to maintain your rights…

What are the extra costs about to be imposed on these workers? How much per year are they about to have their wages cut by?

I still cant see any evidence that Brexit is going to be a problem

You’re kidding, right?

No, no, he really can’t see it. Belief can make you blind.
Blind faith in Brexit if you will.

Just back from Ireland for a long weekend

Eire or Ulster?

Eire or Ulster?

Well, they’re both Ireland and neither is a political entity. 😀

Only messing…I was taking my boy back for his first trip to where his dad grew up and to spend a few days with my mum in Limerick.

It’s fair to say that most of the old friends and relatives I met wanted to talk about Brexit mostly. They are shitting the consequences, both politically at the border and economically.

Eire or Ulster?

Three counties of Ulster are in Eire / RoI

Been working in Norfolk area last week and had an i interesting chat with a few locals. The issue of seasonal work was raised as a soloution to the impending lack of EU labour to pick fruit and veg, my taxi driver pointed out that sesonal workers will come here pay little tax, not spend money locally just save and go home so the local area becomes more like a summer transit camp with eve lessmoney flowing into the local economy – he also poinred out that the locals wont pick fruit even at £10+ an hour

Suggests that fruit and veg industry will collapse post Brexit and we’ll end up importing it. Probably from wherever the seasonal migrants came from in the first place.

Weirdly, those that seem to be at ease with our food production tailing off due to lack of workers are also those proposing WTO tariffs on food imports.

It hurts my head.

“They need us more than we need them”.

igm – Member
Suggests that fruit and veg industry will collapse post Brexit and we’ll end up importing it. Probably from wherever the seasonal migrants came from in the first place.

Seems to be that the UK is actually going to become very altruistic in it’s nature post brexit, what with all the EU institutions decamping, the fruit business heading off elsewhere, etc.

Is brexit really a cunning worldwide wealth redistrubition plan?

Are the brexiteers secret international socialists? 😆

Suggests that fruit and veg industry will collapse post Brexit and we’ll end up importing it.

whereas a government looking at future of the country would be investing in food production, giving grants etc,. to reduce our need to import food.

Very secret. How many of you suspect Jamba and ninfan? Though Chewkw may blow their cover any minute.

Still, after over a year of discussions and preparations, we’re all clear what the politicians intend to replace CAP with now, aren’t we? I don’t think the manifestos could have been clearer on this matter, do you? Or perhaps the reality is that bugger all has been set out as to what UK farmers, shops, and customers should be preparing for. Forwards full speed into the darkness…

Still no plan.

It’s almost like they intend to change their minds at the last minute.

Do any of the current administration have previous for changing their minds?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/29/ireland-says-dozen-london-based-banks-to-relocate-to-dublin-over-brexit?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Brexit looking good, no more nasty bankers to worry about.

Actually so far Brexit has not been a problem. For certain the Remainers have been moaning like crazy and it’s clickbait heaven for the news outlets but the FX move works both ways some gains some losses. Aside from that the economy has barely skipped a beat and UK Treasury / IMF etc have admitted their Armageddon Projections where bollix.

The rest of the world manages just fine with WTO tariffs

@kimbers fair cop on the total, misread your post. Is it not a legitimate question to ask that those that expect to come here permanently do so as they are bring skills and are taking well paid jobs ? My issue is we have far too many people with low skills and / or people who are willing to undercut UK wages for given skills. If you are here and can’t afford £5k VISA application fee are you really adding what we need to the UK economy and can we not get our own people trained to do that work ? When you apply for a work VISA in most countries you have to demonstrate you are adding value skills wise and paying sufficient taxes.

jambalaya – Member 
Actually so far Brexit has not been a problem.

So far, brexit hasn’t happened yet.

(still causing problems though, i just had a research funding application fall through)

If you are here and can’t afford £5k VISA application fee are you really adding what we need to the UK economy

Of course! Do you not consider that having these peksy immigrants do menial jobs might free up our citizens to do other jobs? They all add to our economy. Even the fruit pickers. Without them the farmers cannot sell fruit.

and can we not get our own people trained to do that work ?

We could if your bloody party would put its hands in its (our) pockets and invest in skills and development! Leaving it to the markets has resulted in the situation we have.

IF we are going to be a successful country after Brexit we need a HELL of a lot more investment to replace what get from the rest of the EU.

Actually so far Brexit has not been a problem

Unless you think 20% price hikes are cool, no, no problem at all………..
Oh, and the city shelling jobs
And the rest of the world thinking we are stupid

No problem at all.

There was an interview with some American ‘expert’ on some shit about Trumpton on R4 the other morning who casually referred to the ‘Brexit fiasco’…..

Go us!

My issue is we have far too many people with low skills and / or people who are willing to undercut UK wages for given skills.

Again this kind of attitude is storing up problems. Think it through.
In an economy that is short of labour (our is, check the figures) but you can only bring in skilled workers, there is less incentive to train the native workers – certainly if they don’t excel at school why do in work training when you can bring in skilled staff but not low grade staff?
It’s not instantaneous, but over a period the lower skilled natives will see skilled immigrants as an impediment to their progression fuelling a lot of tension.

What you actually need is to bring in a general mix of skill sets roughly in line with the native population in terms of skill and reward, but complimentary to it (i.e. the skilled ones you bring in should have unusual skills in the native population).

But you certainly shouldn’t just bring in just skilled immigrants or you start to mix class war with xenophobia and racism. Now there’s a cocktail I don’t want to drink.

The rest of the world manages just fine with WTO tariffs

The RoW doesn’t have a heavily integrated economy, where puling up the draw bridge will cause massive disruption to supply chains, a economy with VERY few major businesses that are actually owned by the country. Has not spent the last 12 months proving it is racist and happy to kill MPs.

jambalaya – Member – Block User – Quote
Actually so far Brexit has not been a problem.

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http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=GBP&to=EUR&view=2Y

so far Brexit has not been a problem.

inflation , growth , reduced investment and the exchange rates are facts that would disagre ewiht your unbridled [ and unfounded] illusory optomism

Weren’t we the fastest going european economy pre-J23, possibly even pre-A50?

Not anymore.

I don’t know why you all continue to engage with Jamba, Brexit is going fine for him and his type.

For the rest of us, the damage Brexit will do, are irrelevant to him.

its a fair point as you have to be wilfully trying, and very hard, to ignore the facts to think we have not started to have problems as a reasult of our decision

Its a view not at all supported by the facts which explains about 95% of his views

Its probably a futile waste of time to use facts against him as his political views appears immune to them

If you are here and can’t afford £5k VISA application fee are you really adding what we need to the UK economy and can we not get our own people trained to do that work ?

Yes an expert in the molecular biology of melanoma, is absolutely not the kind of person we’d want contributing to this country, if only we could have more obscenely well paid finance types 🙄

JY – the terms you need all have religious connotations. Blind faith, belief above all, zealot, fanatic, sacrifice, doctrine.
Facts… meh.

Nice to see that Corbyn has gone back to being a Tory enabler.

FFS.

If you are here and can’t afford £5k VISA application fee

Or don’t want to pay it.

Living here used to be free, now it’s not. Perhaps some people will decide the price isn’t worth it. Free market economics and all that.

Talking to my Euro friends, the current price is more than the market can bear. I wonder how long before we’ll be paying people to come here?