Corbyn Shows His True Colours



Jeremy  Cornbyn showed his true 'Eurosceptic' colours on Brexit in a keynote speech to the Scottish Labour Party conference at the weekend.

The Labour leader told delegates:

"We cannot be held back inside or outside the EU from taking the steps we need to develop and invest in cutting edge industries and local business to stop the tide of privatisation and outsourcing.

"Or from preventing employers being able to import cheap agency labour, to undercut existing pay and conditions in the name of free market orthodoxy."


Now this is nonsense, of course, because parts of the Scottish and UK economies are heavily dependent on labour from the European Union and further afield - the NHS, the hospitality sector and much of the residential care sector are just three that spring to mind.

On the same day as Corbyn blamed migrant workers for driving down wages The Guardian carried a report about an major LSE study which concludes that EU migrants have not had a negative impact of UK wages.


EU migrants have no negative effect on UK wages, says LSE



The rapid increase in migration from other EU countries has not had an adverse impact on the wages and job prospects of UK-born workers, according to researchby the London School of Economics.

The study found areas of Britain that have seen the biggest rises in workers from the rest of Europe have not suffered sharper falls in pay or seen a bigger reduction in job opportunities than other parts of the country.

The LSE study, part of a series in the buildup to the EU vote on 23 June, also said that goods and services consumed by migrants raised the level of demand in the British economy and created opportunities for UK-born workers.

Edinburgh MP Ian Murray went on to deliver the following rebuke to the Labour leader:

"And I was incredibly disappointed to see yesterday that the only person smiling after that passage in Jeremy’s speech would have been Nigel Farage.”

 

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