djmobley

It was a decisive victory for Leave, and it was made very clear to everyone voting that it was a once-in-a-generation referendum, the outcome of which would be respected.

MPs would then have been voted out for overruling the will of the people.

There was a referendum. Remain lost. Last year we had another General Election, with the Conservatives campaigning on a platform to get Brexit done, and they won decisively.

EU nationals come to the UK, and they participate in both the labour and housing markets.

A small number act to stimulate supply in those markets (e.g. entrepreneurs setting up businesses, or construction workers building the pitiful number of new homes that get built each year), but the vast majority simply add to the demand-side, driving down wages and increasing rents and property prices.

This applies to both skilled and unskilled migrants. The former often come with savings and significant professional experience. Great for businesses, rubbish for our young people.

Because a free trade deal between the US and UK would be mutually beneficial.

Talks have been ongoing for some time now, and I would expect a deal to materialize in the coming years.

The UK housing crisis is a complex issue with several driving factors.

My point in this thread is that uncontrolled migration from the EU has not helped the matter.

It is a real, tangible example of how EU membership has harmed the prospects of young people in the UK.

If young people in the UK genuinely didn’t want to do “menial” jobs, employers would either increase the pay until they filled the roles, or invest in the more highly skilled labour necessary to render those roles redundant.

I should point out I’m talking about both skilled and unskilled labour here.

British university graduates don’t stand a chance when they’re undercut by French, Spanish or Italian professionals with a decade of professional experience willing to work for peanuts.

It’s good to know EU nationals don’t need housing, so the millions residing in the UK aren’t adding any pressure whatsoever to our existing housing crisis.

Of course, how could I forget the brownfield sites.

I’ll let all the young people know there isn’t a housing crisis after all, and seeing as the millions of EU nationals residing in the UK don’t need housing, young people needn’t worry.

Brexit (Britain’s exit from the European Union) happened on 31 January 2020.

There’s a long list of major economies that don’t have free trade deals with the EU, such as the United States, China, India and Australia.

By definition, the laws the EU have forced on the UK were opposed by the UK government, and would not have made their way into UK law had they not been forced by the EU.

You’re using PPP-adjusted figures which distort the picture. The latest wave of migration to the UK has been from Romania, not Poland.

I’m not talking about refugees, I’m talking about economic migrants, both skilled and unskilled.

In any event, please could you explain to me how adding approx. 3.5m EU nationals to the UK benefits young people?

Consider the challenges faced by young people in the UK today, including widespread unemployment and underemployment, and a chronic housing shortage where the supply of housing is virtually fixed.

I was responding to a claim that “[as] a member of the EU we have never once, ever been “forced” into anything.”

I have not made any claim about those laws causing me trouble, but the ability of the EU to force laws on the UK certainly troubled me.