Comment Re:Considering our office in Newcastle... (Score 1) 535
Well, he is kinda making the Leavers point. His office in the UK has 60 people in it, and not a one is a local person. The entire office is foreign-born. It doesn't get more "they took our jobs" than that.
The counter-argument would be: how many of the unemployed UK citizens could take the positions?
At the peek of unemployment in Germany 15 years ago, they did a research and found that while there were 1.5M unemployed, there ware also around 2.5M open positions. Almost no one out of the unemployed could take the positions because they lacked qualification and/or education. That research was more or less the final nail in the coffin of Germany's pervasive and very popular anti-immigration policies of the past.
The irony is, back then, the Germany was the main opponents of the free worker movement in EU - while the UK was actually an ardent proponent who talked Germany into it.