tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29618513.post116540438893307482..comments2023-09-13T09:59:36.013+01:00Comments on snowflake5: Poles flock to join UK Trade Unionssnowflake5http://www.blogger.com/profile/14700425293614182769noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29618513.post-1165614682111354732006-12-08T21:51:00.000+00:002006-12-08T21:51:00.000+00:00As Mark says when the Poles are unionised, raise t...As Mark says when the Poles are unionised, raise their demands they will become less attractive to tightfisted employers. This is a shortcut for skilling our own British workforce and investing in decent apprenticeships and training. When the Poles go, we'll be left with an ailing British labour force. <BR/><BR/>I'm all for unionising migrant workers, but let us not pretend that what's Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29618513.post-1165576018063859962006-12-08T11:06:00.000+00:002006-12-08T11:06:00.000+00:00Danivon, the first four years Brown had inherited ...Danivon, the first four years Brown had inherited a reasonably sound economy (already four years into an upturn by your own admission), stuck to Tory tax and spending plans (which Ken Clarke later admitted he would not have taken seriously) and made good inroads into paying off National Debt. Brown was enthusiastically re-elected in 2001 by e.g. yours truly.<BR/><BR/>The next four years he was Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29618513.post-1165572147658428972006-12-08T10:02:00.000+00:002006-12-08T10:02:00.000+00:00Yeah, good luck tends to last 10 years in politics...Yeah, good luck tends to last 10 years in politics doesn't it?<BR/><BR/>People were clearly so happy about the state of the economy in 1997 that they decided to reward the sitting government? No? Wonder why? Perhaps it was something to do with the years 1989 - 1993, when things were far from rosy, and it took longer just to recover.<BR/><BR/>Of course, the cheap Polish labour only arrived in the Danivonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04285259845700556283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29618513.post-1165508909764457832006-12-07T16:28:00.000+00:002006-12-07T16:28:00.000+00:00Cheap labour from Eastern Europe is one of the key...Cheap labour from Eastern Europe is one of the key things underpinning Brown's "economic miracle" (the others are the sound finances he inherited, cheap goods from China and good luck generally) of low consumer price inflation and rampant house/land price inflation.<BR/><BR/>If the report is true, the first wave of cheap labour won't be cheap much longer (and why should it be? a fair's work for aAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com