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[gamezone07]

Article in The Times today(paywall) was about UK citizens being offered and buying whole abandoned villages in Spain as the young migrate to cities, for next to nothing,

 

 

carpet baggers?

[angos]

Freedom of movement is only good for the minority of people who are either a) rich or b) have skills that are highly sought. For the rest of us, it's just a race to the bottom.

 

You forgot C, people from the poorest EU countries.

[Happ Hazzard]

The EU want us to be nothing more than the "Okies" in Grapes of Wrath, itinerant workers traipsing the continent for pittance wages. It's time we fought back and regained control of our country. And every other EU country should do the same.

[andygardener]

The EU want us to be nothing more than the "Okies" in Grapes of Wrath, itinerant workers traipsing the continent for pittance wages. It's time we fought back and regained control of our country. And every other EU country should do the same.

 

Amen to that.

[Cyclone]

The EU want us to be nothing more than the "Okies" in Grapes of Wrath, itinerant workers traipsing the continent for pittance wages. It's time we fought back and regained control of our country. And every other EU country should do the same.

 

You talk about the EU as if we aren't part of it.

 

Who exactly is it you believe wants to achieve that goal?

 

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Freedom of movement is only good for the minority of people who are either a) rich or b) have skills that are highly sought. For the rest of us, it's just a race to the bottom.

 

So go and develop some useful skills instead of complaining.

 

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Both involved countries being governed by a shadowly cabal located thousands of miles away. Both are evil entities IMO.

 

Do you like to pretend that you're batman sometimes and that you fight crime?

 

Seriously, a shadowly(sic) cabal. Unlike our own collection of MPs in Westminster whom I'm sure the whole world loves.

[LeMaquis]

Freedom of movement is only good for the minority of people who are either a) rich or b) have skills that are highly sought. For the rest of us, it's just a race to the bottom.

 

Actually a lot of the people who have come here from the A8 and A2 states have come here and done unskilled work that British people born and still living here refuse to do. A lot of British people go and do unskilled work on the continent.

 

However it's nice that you've acknowledged your participation in the race to the bottom. I've long suspected that from your posts.

[Peer Gynt]

Actually a lot of the people who have come here from the A8 and A2 states have come here and done unskilled work that British people born and still living here refuse to do..

 

You mean like the Morecambe Cockle pickers from China.

 

Tell me would you work for what they were being paid and in those conditions?

 

Did the price of cockles fall in relation to the wages being paid?

 

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Families living in severe poverty in the UK often have to choose between heating and eating as they struggle to live on less than £15,000 a year for a household of a couple and two children.

 

The coalition government says it’s committed to ending child poverty by 2020. To meet the goals set out in the Child Poverty Act 2010, the government needs to lift approximately 100,000 children out of poverty each year for the next 10 years.

 

And some people on here would rather send money to buy luxury villas and fleets of cars for despots and their off spring in Africa.

 

How sick is that?