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  I thought the most telling part of that was:
  
  "It is against this background that New Labour opened up Britain's borders in the late 1990s. It was a major betrayal of the very people the party purported to represent.
  
  In addition to the global competition from countries such as China, in addition to competition closer to home from the economies of eastern Europe, New Labour allowed direct competition to enter the UK labour market on a scale unprecedented in our history.
  
  Not surprisingly, the distribution of wage rates has evolved in very similar ways to those of West Germany. It is the relatively unskilled in the bottom half of the distribution who have lost out. The liberal elite do not suffer.
  
  Indeed, they benefit because many of the services they consume are provided at lower prices than would have been the case without mass immigration. It is sometimes argued that immigrants do jobs that native British workers are unwilling to take.
  
  Very well then, without mass immigration, employers would be obliged to raise the real wage rate to induce these people to take the jobs."
  
  Have they really learnt that lesson ?
  
  Have a referendum in 2017 and then get out of Europe and create a new criteria for immigration.
  
  
  
  
  Roger

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