FlyTheNest

https://mainlymacro.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/the-politicisation-of-immigration.html

The politicisation of immigration

Wren-Lewis

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/abuse-egg-attacks-vandalised-nigel-farage-brexit-european-union-eu-brussels-mep-moving-united-states-a8115171.html
Man upset about the very "aggression and unpleasantness" he promotes

http://press.labour.org.uk/post/168643362049/senior-tories-want-to-use-brexit-to-rip-up
Labour Press
Senior Tories want to use Brexit to rip up workers’ rights – Rebecca Long-Bailey

“” Which brings me to those poll numbers. Suffolk University and USA Today released a poll this week, which found that among people who trust Fox News the most, the president’s approval rating has been sinking. His favorability among Fox devotees in June was 90 percent. In October, it was 74 percent. This week? Fifty-eight percent. If that trend continues, he will be underwater with the Fox audience long before the 2018 midterms.

You can cry “fake polls,” as Trump often does. But was the same poll fake in June? Or are the same trends that led to Trump’s historically abysmal approval ratings now reaching even the Fox faithful? From Virginia to Oklahoma to Alabama, establishment and anti-establishment GOP candidates alike have lost in large part because Democrats, Independents and a significant number of Republicans disapprove of Trump more than they approve of him.

His pander-to-the-base approach still does wonders for Hannity & Co.’s ratings, but ratings aren’t votes. “”

http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2017/12/17/brexit-to-be-funded-by-the-exploitation-of-uk-workers/
Brexit to be funded by the exploitation of UK workers

I argued during the EU referendum campaign that few organisations had been as good for the rights of UK workers as the EU. Whether it be on holiday pay, equality rights, equal rights for part time employees and the right to reasonable working hours it by and large led the way, and the UK followed. It was, I argued, a reason for staying in as the likelihood was that those wanting Brexit wanted to remove some or all of those hard won rights.

The evidence that I (and others, of course) was right is beginning to emerge, As The Sunday Times (paywall) reports today of Cabinet meetings planned for this week which will finally discuss what the Cabinet wants of Brexit:

Gove and other ministers will use tomorrow’s meeting to call for Britain to abandon the EU working time directive, which restricts the working week to 48 hours.

So now we know that the £350 million it to be paid for by exploiting British workers who will no longer have the right to go home when they want, and who will be exposed to greater risk as a a result. You couldn't make it up.

The TUC has already launched a petition on the issue, here. I hope you might join me in signing it.

Not much praise on here for Dennis Brexit Skinner and his amusing heckles. Unlike another place.

Yes thanks for Wren-Lewis article.

I have my own personal diagnosis of the Brexit vote that I was thinking about after the Barnsley Question Time the other day.

For me, it's quite simple. There are huge swathes of the country away from London and some other cosmopolitan hotspots that have never recovered from the 2008 crash. If you live in Barnsley, life now is harder than pre-2008.

This would make you want to look for someone to blame. Largely of course the blame lies with Cameron and Osborne and all those who voted for them. But they were utterly expert in deflecting the blame. Towards "scroungers". Towards immigrants. And yes towards Brussels.

What continues to be missing is completely justified rage against the London establishment . London drove the 2008 crash, yet still prospers. I love the place, but it would be better if we acknowledged that the idea that it underpins the UK economy is massively flakey.

*Takes the bait...

Why whats he said/done now ?

I'll take any bait, what's the other place ?

SH just being an arsehole for being an arsehole's sake.

Sad to remember that LABOUR began the attack on 'scroungers' = the punitive and privatised WCA , and so much bloody PFI !

Blair encouraged unlimited immediate and even 'encouraged' immigration, which was a disaster . Worthy studies tell us that it encouraged economic growth without any negative effects ... but they missed out on the wider effects .

This one from Ebbw Vale is a must read, going back much further than 2008 --

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/ ... -ebbw-vale

Another from Wm Keegan combines brexit and thatcherisation --

""Which brings us to the real problem that has engulfed otherwise sensible Remain MPs: most of them have been so pusillanimous in the face of their “left behind” constituents that they have forgotten Edmund Burke’s dictum that their duty is to be representatives, not delegates – to apply their judgment, not act as conduits for prejudices they do not share.

My impression is that the despair, indeed anger, felt by “left behind” Brexit voters is the accumulated result of the Thatcher regime’s neglect of the north and manufacturing, compounded by the impact of globalisation: as analysts are pointing out a lot these days, the losers from globalisation have simply not been compensated from a pot whose proceeds should have been distributed more equitably.""


https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... oters-hope

Plenty to be going on with !

It's a different forum with members who used to post here, but seldom do these days

I coaxed you out to post.I am thinking of "running" I use the term loosely different/new overseas marathons and briefly considered alpine/mountainous,when I say briefly I mean less than a nanosecond,most likely City ones but looking at other places to visit as well.

Some at work do some of the crazy mountain runs.....leave them to it

Frog4 my second daughter is into triathlons, now roping in her husband and eldest son of approaching 11 yo.

One of her cousines attempted the IronMan , something like 180km of bike, 4 of swimming, and a half-marathon to finish off .

She gave up halfway through the running bit .

Not much praise on here for Dennis Brexit Skinner and his amusing heckles. Unlike another place.

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The UK employment rate is at its highest level in history. So we clearly aren't suffering from excessive employment regulation. I will NOT support ANY dilution of workers' employment rights. Nor should any Conservative.

Done a standard one (1500m,(pool)40k bike 10k run.).I am even slower at swimming,I caught up a bit time wise but not in position.

His was a 2km swim in open water, 160km bike and then a marathon (up a mountain in this case) - took him around 15 hours

Could you tell me exactly what you mean by this post? Was there some kind of celebration we should know about? Some important breaking news?

Or, are you just trolling between two different forums in an attempt to start an argument? You see, this is why people get annoyed at you and is the kind of behaviour that can get you uninvited from places.

I have to have a fag break at least every four hours,it is the law.

Refitman -- afraid I can't read PM's !

Night night.

Everybody at work smokes,there were some with the electronic thing that seems to have diminished.

Emailed you, to the email you signed up with.