Yes, which is why automation is making up that gap

It's cheaper than china

Literally

Bypassing the minimum wage issue

It is allowing manufacturing to move closer to the knowledge base

Workers costing more

Which is an advantage

In the long run I would say so

Not for the workers it ain't

What are people expected to live on?

Yeah

Here it is

Since manufacturing is coming here that wasn't here in the first place

So they hire operators

It's bad for china

Net loss for world

Net gain for us

Population power is deminishing

So yeah would be good in the long run, short term though it affects workers

I don't share your optimism - we are in managed descent and I don't see it arresting anytime soon

Seems like a double edge sword tbh. Would come at a heavy price to some

It's where my support for global free-markets ends. The government's first duty is to it's people, not global corporations

``At least 50 Conservative MPs would revolt against a general election manifesto that pledged to pursue a no-deal Brexit, according to two members of the government.

Scores of Tory MPs oppose the idea and some are considering running on a softer individual Brexit platform or even standing aside as a Conservative candidate.

One minister predicted that “at least 50 colleagues could not back no-deal, including several in the cabinet”. Another said: “So much depends on the language but for me there has to be at least a nod to getting a deal.”
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Well I mean if that was the manifesto

You'd expect them to deselect rebels first

and if it isn't their manifesto they can expect to get chewed up by farage

Well depends

If the manifesto is no deal

Or there is a nod to a deal with the intention of no deal

What the fuck is wrong with them?

They know a deal cannot be sought at this point

However it matters not

``“To marginalise the Brexit party, we will have to fight the election on the basis of ‘no more delays, get Brexit done immediately’,” the official said. “We will focus on winning the election on a manifesto of immediately revoking the entire EU legal order without further talks, and then we will leave.”
``

There can be no GE before exit day

The only time a GE will happen before exit is a delay

Seems Tories still have a whole bunch of wets they need to purge

I mean parl is prorogued

Then for 5 days after they will debate queen speech

No time for A GE anymore

oh yeah and if they do explicitly back no-deal, they can expect farage's support rather than hindrance

THere was never going to be a GE before Oct31st after the proroguing/surrender bill fiasco