UK hospitality industry hit by crisis as thousands of young Italians are forced out by latest round of rules and cost-of-living crisis

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But the 27-year-old, like thousands of other Italians working in the UK hospitality industry, now feels she has no option but to leave and return to Europe.

Really sums up the big fuckup and why huh UK?

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Post-Brexit UK is an actual crime scene and it seems like everyone stopped asking, qui bono? Not the UK, and not Europe.

Same perp who wants his American candidate to dismantle NATO, if you ask me. Means, motive, pattern of criminality are all there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_Brexit_referendum#%3A~%3Atext%3DRussian_interference_in_the_2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership%2Cof_leaving_the_European_Union

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Brexit was a massive, massive win for them. Not as massive as the Trump presidency, but that’s more reflection of Trump.

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I highly recommend a book by historian Timothy Snyder called Road to Unfreedom. It explains how we got here, what Russia wants to achieve and why.

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The crux of it as far as I’ve gleaned is that their geopolitical theory revolves around being the bigger dog in every deal, so they want to be able to throw their weight around by dismantling blocs of smaller nations and creating a system of bilateral agreements. Is that about what Snyder says is going on?

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It was a referendum. People are were asked “do you want to leave the EU” and the majority of people said “yes”. The British people have no one to blame but themselves.

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Most everybody in the UK didn’t want to leave Europe until a bunch of politicians with an agenda planted the idea in their mind and argued for it with lies after lies.

The people was lied to and Brexit was manufactured. You can’t put all the blame on the people: part of it is to be dished out to the education system that failed to give enough of them critical thinking abilities and teach them history so it doesn’t repeat itself.

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Who proposed it? Did the people just wake up one day and say yeah we’re out?

Or did Farage and Boris cook something up?

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Either it is not within your power to encompass world events in relation to one another, or your argument requires that we fail to do so; in either case, be silent.

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The best and most accurate commentary ever on Brexit can be found here:

James Acaster’s teabag anaolgy

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I’m not Italian, but I am moving back to the EU in the next few months.

Life isn’t perfect anywhere, but (at least for my wife and I) we decided that it’s much better for us elsewhere.

Biggest things are the cost of living and the unwillingness for anyone in politics to talk constructively about solutions.

We basically realised that we could be paid similarly but have our CoL cut in half, while living somewhere we find nicer than London. It shouldn’t have to be this way, but the current situation is outrageous.

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Also to add, many EU nations are going out of their way to attract MORE foreign workers because there’s a shortage everywhere in the developed world.

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There is not. There is a desire to under pay.

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Yeah, Australia is specifically targeting UK nursing staff as well.

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And they freaking underpay those foreign workers because they feel like they can get away with it

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Oh no !

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Surely you mean to say “Shaddap you face!”

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