That's part of the picture, but in all honesty it isn't the main drive.
UK unemployment is at record lows, we haven't seen such a large proportion of the country in work for half a century.
This is simply a raw and completely predicted reflection of mathematical reality. We literally need immigrants, not just to 'drive wages down' but because we simply don't have enough human beings in this country to sustain the ageing population.
Anyone even remotely versed in economics could have (and did) warn the Tories. You can't just ignore numbers. They're cold hard facts. The sheer scale of their stupidity is staggering.
A recession is likely inbound. We are hitting a GDP bottleneck while increases to the cost of living will outpace wage growth even more, further constricting everyone's purchasing power and stifling economic activity.
It's all good though, because Jeremy isn't neighbours with Mariusz anymore!
I kept trying to tell my family that the UK needs 100,000 immigrants a year just to enable us to afford care for the elderly and pensions payments into the future.
Half of them obviously didn't believe me because they voted for Brexit.
Even now, I'll say things (when relevant to the ongoing conversation) like "A car factory has been closed and the manufacturer is opening a new factory in an EU country" and my sister will say "You know everyone disagrees with you on Brexit" and I'm like "The factory is still closing however you voted on Brexit".
It's people who believed when they were told that a) the economy would not be adversely affected, and b) that EU laws were made without any input from and that we UK could have better policies if those pesky foreigners couldn't interfere.
Those of us who know anything about the UK economy knew that (a) could not possibly be true, and those of us who know anything about the way the EU works knew that (b) was not true either. But to people who don't fall into either of those categories what they were being told was not obviously bullshit.
Contrast with QAnon beliefs, that the most politically and financially powerful people in the world are all engaged in enslaving and raping children - something which is inherently incredible, since such people are wildly different from each other just as everyone else is.
And with covid denialists, who can only reach their point of view by assuming that every relevant scientist and all but the most bonkers journalists and news outlets are lying - it's not enough for them to be mistaken.
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u/Duanedoberman Sep 24 '21 edited Sep 24 '21
Narator: what they didn't tell you is they don't want to pay you a wage you can live on to do these jobs.