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The power of vested Interests on the EU

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    The power of vested Interests on the EU

    it is little surprise when the CBI lend their pretty well unqualified support to Britain remaining in the EU and it is also little surprise that IT contractors with their fat low tax earnings also unquestioningly support Britain keeping with the status quo.

    Calls for Jean-Claude Juncker to quit over tax avoidance deals | Daily Mail Online

    The CBI itself a recipient of £800,000 in funds from the EU represents all the great and good of the corporate world. Most of these companies prosper by virtue of the complexity of the red tape that keeps smaller companies out of their markets.

    These corporates are also along with government departments the biggest employer of IT contractors.

    It is no wonder IT contractors are so pro to keeping the UK within the EU. "Sod everyone else" I hear you say! For the rest of us an exit would help us all.
    Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

    #2
    For good business reasons.

    http://https://www.pertemps.co.uk/en/about-us/news/Vast-majority-of-companies-want-the-UK-to-remain-a-member-of-the-EU

    If you want less investment, less business and lower standard of living then indeed leaving the EU would be a good thing.
    I'm alright Jack

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      #3
      Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post
      For good business reasons.

      http://https://www.pertemps.co.uk/en/about-us/news/Vast-majority-of-companies-want-the-UK-to-remain-a-member-of-the-EU

      If you want less investment, less business and lower standard of living then indeed leaving the EU would be a good thing.
      I presume these are the large corporations that enjoy their protected status by virtue of EU red tape

      http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/826a26b8-9...#axzz3IkrxxDjQ

      The only small "businesses" (if you can call them that) who want to remain in the EU are IT contractors
      Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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        #4
        Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
        I presume these are the large corporations that enjoy their protected status by virtue of EU red tape

        http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/826a26b8-9...#axzz3IkrxxDjQ

        The only small "businesses" (if you can call them that) who want to remain in the EU are IT contractors
        If you have a grocers shop in Accrington and 20000 Eastern Europeans are sent home and the local factory shuts down part of it's operation.

        a) This is great for the grocer because he can reduce the opening hours because no-one is coming into his shop
        b) This is bad for the grocer because he's lost 20000 customers.
        I'm alright Jack

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          #5
          Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post
          If you have a grocers shop in Accrington and 20000 Eastern Europeans are sent home and the local factory shuts down part of it's operation.

          a) This is great for the grocer because he can reduce the opening hours because no-one is coming into his shop
          b) This is bad for the grocer because he's lost 20000 customers.
          And if you are an Aldi with heavily discounted food products thanks to the aggregated buying power of their enormous operation then you can cater for all the unemployed spending their benefits and then relocate the profits back to Germany
          Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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