My first Brexit thread

What is the problem with food prices rising if they are only low because staff are being exploited due to such low wages? This is how the economy is rebalanced. Moving money from the rich through higher prices to the poor through increased wages.
Poor people have to eat too.

Here's the thing. Everyone has to eat. Therefore we are all poorer. That's my point.
 
Using aspects of my personal life, on two separate threads IS personally attacking someone. Especially when you choose to ignore the countless post where I expanded on my opening post for clarity
You give people the ammunition, if you don't want to have the píss taken out if you, don't post the information. You've only yourself to blame, perhaps a little humility might help you from time to time
 
Poor people have to eat too.

Here's the thing. Everyone has to eat. Therefore we are all poorer. That's my point.

And poor people can afford a bit more because their wages will have risen.

The difficult to pick items, the ones that aren't done by machine, are already too expensive for poor people unfortunately. Diets for the lowest income are poor because they are already priced out of fresh fruit and veg. Increasing the prices will have little effect on those that already can't afford them.
 
You give people the ammunition, if you don't want to have the píss taken out if you, don't post the information. You've only yourself to blame, perhaps a little humility might help you from time to time

Actually I just speak as I find. It doesn't bother me how you react. I can cope with petty people wanting to knock me down. The fact that you choose to, rather than actually address what I'm saying reflects worse on you than it does on me.

Simple question then: since we've pretty much agreed we'll be poorer after brexit. Are you happy with that?
 
We haven't necessarily agreed that, but since you ask...I can afford what I need, if I cant then I have to go without. I'm not entitled to anything
 
Food? I would say that's a basic human right. Maybe you can live off moss scraped from you roof?
 
I think I can afford food, if it costs a little more, so be it, but I can afford to buy what I need

Your inflammatory exaggeration is that I cant afford any food. It sounds like you're over-paying if the prices of your food means you cant afford it
 
No my suggestion was that the cost of food would go up. Making us poorer directly thanks to brexit. You've now confirmed this.

Thank you. It took a while but we got there.
 
Sounds like you're on the bread line. You could maybe retrain for a career with better financial prospects?
 
Ah personal comments again. I'm fine thanks for asking. Also thanks for confirming my original point that Brexit is going to make us all poorer. It took a lot but I'm glad you finally got there
 
If you're fine what are you whinging about? Is it concern that your cleaner cant afford food because you begrudge paying a little more?

You do understand market forces, right?

I'm not making personal remarks that infringe upon your privacy, I'm responding to what you post, that's how it works

You're always the victim aren't you, it's always someone else's fault
 
Theres certainly a lot in the remain camp who will miss exploiting cheap eastern European labour as this thread amply demonstrates.
 
Theres certainly a lot in the remain camp who will miss exploiting cheap eastern European labour as this thread amply demonstrates.

The OP doesn’t say his cleaner is asking for more wages by my reading, he is saying the agency he uses are putting up their prices citing Brexit as a reason.

because of brexit a number of Europeans, who were a significant number of the workforce, have chosen not to stay. Partly this is the toxic environment brexiters have created. Partly it is because of the drop in the pound. For the Europeans who are usually here in the short term to send part of their wages back to their families, the drop in the pound is making it also less economically viable. The wages increase requested is not making them better off it is merely keeping pace. The same is true with inflation, which has been creeping in.

it’s also not just the difficulty retaining cleaners for the reasons stated, it becomes harder to attract replacements. If recruiting is harder then recruitment costs go up.

Then we have the situation where the same amount of cleaning is required, but because of lack of numbers, either the job is harder because the individuals are covering for a shortage of numbers, so they are entitled to ask for more, or else in a labour shortage the customer that pays more gets the service, but those who can’t will end up doing without.
 
I don't feel worse off , I can still go on holiday , cannot comment in a cleaner as I don't have one, it's still raining , BBC is still operating , maybe the virus is due to Brexit ?
 
You don't YET.

See what I'm saying about how likely it is, and forwhy
SmallTown why cant you accept what people say, you asked the question & as same as before answered truthfully, you had to have the final say
Dont prices increase year, on year, yet people don't always get a pay rise, for many years people will be financially worse off year on year, not just the past 2 years
 
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