1. The EU's regulatory burden
discourages employment. If the UK labour market
were like that in the Eurozone, with the same 'employment ratio', two
million jobs would be destroyed in our country.
2. EU membership means that the UK
cannot prevent immigration to this country from low-wage Eastern
Europe. In the decade to 2013 employment in our country of
UK-born people fell by about 100,000, whereas the employment of foreign-born
people rose by 1.8 million. Roughly half of the 1.8 million came from the rest
of the EU. Almost certainly, some British people have been 'displaced'
from their jobs by lower-cost workers from Eastern Europe.
3. Two million men lost their jobs in
this country in the first 20 years of EEC/EU membership. So the
assertion that 'leaving the EU would cost jobs' must be challenged, to say the
least. The facts instead suggest that 'joining the EU cost jobs'.
Incredibly, the LibDems continue to link the EU
with job creation. I am ticked off by some of my readers if I combine the two
words 'Claptrap' and 'Clegg'. Well, sorry, but the man does talk claptrap. At
his speech to the LibDem conference in York yesterday, the slogan on the podium
was 'In Europe, in work'. As I have just demonstrated, the facts of the matter
are entirely different. EU membership has been
1. bad for jobs, and
2. bad particularly for the jobs of the
long-term British, meaning people who have been born in Britain, have always
lived here and have never imagined taking up any citizenship other than British
citizenship.
In the LibDems internal memo on the UKIP threat,
advice was given to LibDem supporters to tell voters that 'voting UKIP could
lead to millions of lost jobs, if and when the UK left the EU'. That advice was
not just wrong in fact. It was also deceitful and malicious, and broke the
understood conventions of political debate in our country. We must let British
voters have the correct facts and figures, and tell them that the LibDems are
trying to feed them lies.
Professor Tim Congdon
CBE
Chairman, The Freedom
Association
Runner-up in the 2010 UKIP
leadership election
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