London will be overrun by 29 million Romanians and Bulgarians

[Beanz]

Miles you would not recognise a fact if it jumped up and sunk its teeth into your bony arse.

[Gandalf]

Miles you would not recognise a fact if it jumped up and sunk its teeth into your bony arse.

Snide comments aside, I don't see what facts I am supposed to be missing. Would you care to enlighten us all because quite frankly, I don't see nor understand the case for allowing unfair labour markets to exist. Liberalism at all costs is not desirable. It is extremism and in the case of a nation state, can cause immense harm.

The levels of unrest and anger have been fermenting for years and people are told, that it is wrong to question why half the checkout counter people are no longer English, you are supposed to just accept that this is progress. Nobody begrudges different people working as everybody needs to work, but I think people are angry about how it was done in a very shady way and now that the extent of the change is so apparent, the poor in particular are wondering why on earth they themselves are struggling to make a living. They have been sold down the river, and they are right to think that way. Why are there jobs advertised in Romania which they don't even bother to advertise in the UK? Is that not questionable? It's a corporatist agenda to get labour as cheaply as possible. It's labour as an unquestioning, do as you are told, cheap, factor of production.

We are growing again, they tell you! It's disturbing to say the least. At what cost? Ordinary people haven't seen wages go up in half a decade, disparities in wealth are at massive levels, but hey house prices are going up and more low paying jobs! We are growing, keep on repeating it, and it must be true. Thus bills go up, transport goes up, savings rates almost nil in real terms, rents go up, but wages stagnate. Nothing to see here, we are growing! Utter madness.