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1. Gordon Brown, The EU model of freedom of labour needs to be reformed. Companies should only be allowed to recruit Non-British labour if there is sufficient evidence of a skills shortage in the British economy. Otherwise, it should be illegal to recruit foreign labour on the grounds that they will work for lower wages and for longer hours forfeiting worker rights. Companies should really invest money in national skills academies and state funded apprenticeships to reduce the skills shortage, instead of importing labour to fill the skills gaps, if we are to have a sustainable economy and population size. Currently the EU has created a race for the bottom, partly due to the extent to which freedom of labour is allowed, as well as the lack of egalitarianism between EU countries. It shouldn't be the working class of Britain that suffer as a result of freedom of labour, it should be the super rich suffer. A mechanism to redistribute the suffering from the poor to the rich is necessary.
   Asked by Sadbog74 on Feb 02 2009 12:24:17 PM and supported by 30 members
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