Prof Catherine Rowett 💚 Ex-MEP @catherinerowett@respublicae.eu

@Mark_PPP Well freedom of movement allowed us to export lots of our retired people to Spain and France. But most of them had to sell up and come home. Without working age people and with a low birth rate we can't handle that. So rising immigration is necessary till we restore FOM.

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If you let foreign workers bring their families and settle, the money they earn stays in this country, circulating in the local economy, paying rent, buying food, clothes, household goods & toys. If you make them come alone they send the money home.
Makes no economic sense.

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Of course it won't "bring numbers down" nor do we need it to (that would leave us with even more unfilled vacancies and low productivity). But it will stop an appalling bit of xenophobic discrimination and reduce in work poverty.

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@JoVanEvery Quite 🙄

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Don't be deceived by the "biggest net immigration ever" nonsense on the news. When we were in the EU we borrowed workers all the time without visas. And sent ours abroad easily too.
Now it's harder for our workers to escape.
And everyone needs a visa. So more visas are needed. 🙄

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This is a good thing. There should never have been an option of paying recruits from abroad less than recruits from the UK. But we'll still need workers from abroad while so many people are out of work with ill health, and on the long NHS waiting lists. Health matters.
RT @matt_dathan: Labour has announced a new immigration policy to bring numbers down.

The policy will bar employers in sectors with labour shortages from recruiting foreign workers unless they pay…

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RT @PippaCrerar: EXCL: About a dozen previously undisclosed gatherings at both Chequers and Downing Street allegedly held during Covid have been referred to police by civil servants ⁦@breeallegretti⁩ hears https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/24/undisclosed-covid-era-johnson-events-occurred-at-both-chequers-and-downing-street?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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RT @PeterStefanovi2: At #PMQs today the Prime Minister actually boasted about his Government’s assault on British liberties - curbing our right to protest & robbing millions of workers their democratic right to strike - this should shock the country to its core - where is the outrage from UK media? https://t.co/4NzUaLnHTp

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RT @rudidylan5: Only in the crumbling, right-wing dystopian UK would Gary Lineker's mild liberal decency be in any way controversial. #C4News

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RT @jdportes: If Starmer is going to complain about the number of work visas issued, the honest thing to do would be to tell us which of these occupations he wants to cut numbers in:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-65694352?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=646df8fe4af97d5b4c593c4d%26Time%20for%20a%20bit%20of%20number%20crunching%262023-05-24T11%3A57%3A58.037Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:5c1b02a5-0bab-4f2c-968f-b8ec554bc680&pinned_post_asset_id=646df8fe4af97d5b4c593c4d&pinned_post_type=share via @BBCNews https://t.co/eK3ynRGOmX

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Wow!
RT @ACarpenDigital: @catherinerowett @CambridgeGreens @Lara4StNeots @natalieben Another East Anglian Tory council falls https://t.co/AUJB8p1h2K

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@SimonPartridge @northernmnkey @TimPitt11 @joycemcm @suzannezeedyk @robertverkaik1 It's actually not true that you'd need big tax hikes. That's the mistake that drives austerity economics, which leads to lower public spending, lower tax revenues, recession and falling productivity. But cutting immigration and student visas will also lead to recession.

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@paulwaugh It's right to address issues about postal voting. There was no problem at the polling booth but there are problems in homes. But this reform will do little to address them.

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RT @cjenscook: @ItsNiceUpNorth1 @TorstenBell This article of mine 14 yrs ago is topical & relevant on the charade of the dominant ideology https://labourlist.org/2009/06/great-expectations-2/?amp

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@cjenscook @ItsNiceUpNorth1 @TorstenBell The Bank of England has admitted that it can't understand the problem and that the modelling didn't predict that raising interest rates wouldn't work. But how long before it dawns on them that their model is based on stupid economic theories that we can all see through. 🤔

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RT @cjenscook: @ItsNiceUpNorth1 @TorstenBell In fact, insofar as interest is a cost in food supply chains it can only make inflation worse. The entire premise of monetarist policy for retail price inflation is fundamentally misconceived. While higher rates act against land price inflation they CAUSE retail price inflation

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RT @ItsNiceUpNorth1: @TorstenBell At what point does the BOE think that increasing the cost of mortgages and stopping people buying luxury items, isn't going to solve sky high food inflation?

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Food inflation at 19.1%. Let that sink in.
Then add the mortgage costs for anyone lucky enough to have just got a home for their family.
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RT @TorstenBell: Inflation falls from 10.1% to 8.7% but…
- bad news for Bank of England = core inflation rose from 6.2% to 6.8%.
- bad news for families = food price inflation is stubbornly high at 19.1% and moving centre stage in the cost of living crisis

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RT @PaulTempleman6: @PaulbernalUK I have never understood why mortgages don’t contribute to the inflation calculations since it is such a major part of many people’s cost of living.

Interest rates can’t be the only resort to control inflation.

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RT @PaulbernalUK: Why do the media let this kind of thing pass? We *all* know there’s an alternative plan: legal routes, processing centres on the continent, faster processing. https://t.co/YFTiDoaK95

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