@long_friday@NewtonEmerson NI spending will take same amount of pounds/euros, unless you want spending cuts. We'll collect same amount of tax as now, unless you want higher tax. If you want higher spending, or lower tax, the budget deficit goes up, and money needed from Dublin is higher. Which?
@ollieboote@residentadviser The thing about NET migration is it's partly emigration is high, and those are UK and EU citizens. IMMigration is still 800k and they're non-EU. If Reformers are cultural, then stopping small boats isn't enough. Low net migration isn't either. Have to stop the IMMigration.
@residentadviser Obv example of the prob is, PMC wanna veto Brexit, but mass immig'n is too unpopular with working ppl to do so. Had to accept Brexit to get back in, Jezza probably lost more votes than gained with '2nd ref' promise. Maybe allowing 800k non-EU is PMC trying to have it both ways.
@residentadviser That's the prob, the professional-managerial class have controlled Labour since Blair (if not since always), but w/o enough working ppl they don't enough votes to win a GE, handing it to the Tories (or Reform). It would be like a RW party trying to win w ONLY business owners.
@bigpete1974@NewtonEmerson I really don't see why that imposes such a burden. I dunno if we have surprise hospital inspections in NI like England but I wouldn't want to allow ind action to prevent one. If anything ppl on ind action are more free of daily work to cooperate with inspection
@long_friday@NewtonEmerson There are regions in all countries which spend more than they pay in tax, you are ignorant or pretending if you think otherwise. the same situation would continue if we became part of ROI. Unless you want our tax to go up or spend to go down then, for some reason.
@bigpete1974@NewtonEmerson Why doesn't the rest of the UK take that attitude then? Or the country to our south? Do they just hate industrial action? I don't think that adds up. Inspections should be allowed, (action short of a) strikebreaking should not.
@bigpete1974@NewtonEmerson Likewise, allowing inspections of schools to be obstructed shouldn't begin immediately?! Is that not a much easier, less complicated bill to draft and pass?!?
@bigpete1974@NewtonEmerson Don't opponents of the Good Jobs Bill also say: is there not a mountain of other things wrong with this God forsaken place they could address first?
@jhtigers17@Cpass12David They're right, in a way: it is, after all, net. Immigration is still 800k. That's gonna be unpopular, no matter how low *net* migration is, which is also a matter of how many ppl are emigrating. We shouldn't have such high immigration, or such high emigration! Now restrict this:
@Hepworthclare Clare, I'm a 20-year Labour and union member. We must stop this (and immigration is still 800k, net migration fell because emigration is also so high!):