But this is still all misleading. If you read the House of Commons Library note, it highlights that much EU ‘legislation’ is what it calls ‘soft law’, that is, areas where the EU has collectively agreed broad principles, objectives, timescales and issues, but left everything else to the Member States.
And you have misunderstood Transpositions. Transposed Directives can only in fact be enacted through domestic legislation. In the UK, they tend to be statutory instruments, and the House of Lords in particular is pretty good at spotting them and scrutinising them. And I’m surprised that you claim the Commons Library doesn’t count them - it goes into considerable detail on them in the note I linked to. Did you read it?
A huge concern for many people I know is immigration. Not Syrians, but immigration from the EU. We are one of the most densely populated countries in the world and you can feel it. The cities are crowded, the roads packed, the hospitals full. UK minimum wage is going up to £9 per hour over the next 4 years which will put it over 7 times higher than the poorest countries. It’s not going to stop any time soon and there’s nothing we can do about it, other than vote ‘out’.
Very instructive. So, the actual Syrian refugees are largely women & children, like you’d expect. It’s just that the majority of the recent wave of “refugees” aren’t Syrian.
This is why the UK government is taking Syrian refugees from the camps on the Syrian boarder that have had their refugee status checked. Some are saying that we should take more but the U.K. has to take in migrants from the EU. When we have regained control of our borders the hope will be to give priority to genuine refugee’s
New technology is reducing the need for workers, as more jobs become automated there is already warnings that unless the population is reduced we will have to except long term unemployment as a way of life. we are only talking 50 years so children born today (your children or your grand children) will have to contemplate not having full employment. With a smaller workforce the government will have to except less revenue or raise taxes to cover welfare payments. With a shortage of jobs and a surplice of workers you can expect wages will be lower as people will have to compete for work.
Europe already has ~10% unemployment (compared to 5% in the US) and it’s well known that young people often have a lot of trouble finding jobs. Economic trends suggest this will continue to get worse, not better. With the rise of internet shopping, even bottom-rung WalMart-type jobs will be less available in the future.
Another thing to consider: the long-term unemployed will almost inevitably become an “underclass” consigned to a lifetime of poverty. The government will (hopefully) make sure they don’t starve, but they won’t have enough money for anything more than basic survival. That will lead to a host of societal problems, like increased crime, and increases in alcohol & drug abuse (Because you have no job and no prospects for getting a job. So what are you going to do today?)
This is why we must leave the EU as it is the only way that we can gain control of our borders. I do not want to see a ridged cap on numbers allowed into the UK I would rather see a limit linked to job vacancies giving genuine refugee’s priority with visa’s issued before they start to travel.
Many of you have a problem with the DM, the meeting took place in America so it should be easy to check the facts
Will a robot take YOUR job? Humanity facing ‘its greatest challenge ever’ as machines are set to make HALF the world unemployed in just 30 years
Top scientist Moshe Vardi warned robots will take 50% jobs by 2050
The Houston professor’s bleak warning came at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) this week
Last year Stephen Hawking made a similarly bleak prediction
They both warned it marks humanity’s worst existential crisis of all time
By Mia De Graaf For Dailymail.com and Press Association