"Steve I'm for skilled immigration, I don't want to live in a white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant country with warm beer. But I believe that governments have used immigration to fill the jobs they can't get people to do without increasing salaries. Wages are kept low, so taxes have to be kept low, so we can't do things better spend more money on childcare, on education, on technology."
"Eva I don't have that much knowledge of Brexit, because I was 16 and not living here when it happened. He explained it to me in a new light. He told me about posted workers people could come here and only be paid the wage of the country they came from. Steve Macron spent two years getting the EU to do away with the scheme; it was reformed in 2018. Before that, posted workers coming in were undercutting British wo"
Steve is a retired underwriter who once specialised in kidnap and ransom insurance and votes Conservative. Eva is a 25-year-old psychology graduate from New Zealand who has worked as a cruise ship singer and voted Labour and Green at home. Steve prefers reduced overall immigration but supports skilled immigration, arguing that employers use immigration to avoid raising wages, which limits taxes and spending on public services. Eva expresses less familiarity with Brexit but notes an explanation about posted workers being paid their home-country wages. Macron negotiated reforms to the posted workers scheme in 2018.
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