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EUROZONE STILL OUT OF WORK

YOU'RE TWICE AS LIKELY TO BE UNEMPLOYED IN EUROZONE Latest EU official stats show you're twice as likely to be out of work in the Eurozone. Eurozone unemployment: 10.3%. In UK it's 5.0%. New 04 April data below.

• Mr Osborne's Treasury Report claiming we'll be £4,300 per household worse off by 2030 has now been widely ridiculed, including by the BBC.
• In the last 3 years the UK has created more jobs than the rest of the EU put together.
• Over 2 million EU migrants now have UK jobs

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1. Tata Steel has reportedly been losing £1m per day for 5 years, thanks to energy costs driven up by EU green energy directives and Chinese dumping of excess capacity in Europe.

2. EU rules prevent public support or US style anti-dumping Tariffs to help steel companies in difficulty. US steel tariffs against China are 236% vs a 9% limit imposed by the EU.

3. Minister Anna Soubry admits the EU limits the Government's options: "We have to be very careful because we have these state aid rules".

4. Latest official data shows EU responsible for 72% of UK's steel imports.

5. Today former Minister John Redwood MP states: "The way EU energy, regulatory and procurement policies are enforced in the UK versus the continent allow much more steel to be produced in the rest of the EU than here.".

6. In 2015 Italy's plant produced as much as Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Romania, and Luxembourg put together. Will the EU allow the UK's steel industry to be saved?

1. You are twice as likely to be out of a job in the Eurozone than in the UK, says latest job figures from official EU statistics authority.

2. Young Greeks (under 25) are 7 times more likely to be jobless than in Germany. The rate in Greece is now 48.9%.

3. In the last 3 years the UK has created more jobs than the rest of the EU put together. It seems logical that the UK is better than the EU for jobs and will do better still when we’re not being held back.

4. Over 2 million EU migrants now have UK jobs and this is increasing every year. Because of EU ‘free movement’ rules, EU migrants have the automatic right to come and work in the UK. British jobs are increasingly likely to be taken by an EU migrant.

5. In four years’ time the UK will have an extra 1.9 million EU immigrants with NI numbers enabling them to work here legally, according to Government data and assuming current trends.

6. It’s common sense that stopping or slowing the growth in uncontrolled EU migration will mean more jobs for UK workers and will mean that employers can’t continue to keep wages artificially low.

1. Most people accept that the majority of EU migrants entering the UK come to work, and many contribute much to our country. But how much are EU migrants costing the UK taxpayer purely in benefits payments?

2. The answer is simple : £3.4 billion in the year 2013/2014. This is the latest official figure from the Dept of Work and Pensions.

3. This figure does not include Disability Living Allowance, Carer’s Allowance, Child Benefit or Tax Credits, so the full and accurate figure will be higher than £3.4 billion.

4. EU migrants need an NI number to claim benefits. In the last 12 years, the number of EU migrants with NI numbers has grown by more than 40% per year, so we can expect much higher bills every year if we stay in. The only way to stop this is to stop ‘free movement’ – and to do that we have to leave the EU.

1. The UK was legislating for employee protection and anti-discrimination rights long before we joined the EEC/EU.

2. There are literally hundreds of examples, including:-
Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1958, Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971, Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970, Clean Air Act, Factories Act 1961, Trade Union Act 1964, Agricultural Wages Act 1948, Industry Act 1972, Equal Pay Act 1970, Sex Discrimination Act 1975, Race Relations Acts 1965 and 1968.

All of these were initiated by the UK government.

3. Even after joining the EEC/EU, the UK continued to make its own legislation on these protections and rights until Tony Blair removed the UK's veto on the EU's 'Social Chapter' in 1997. Since then our employment rights law has been decided in Brussels by people you can't elect.

1. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has shown that collective bargaining rights in many EU countries have suffered over last 8 years since 2008.

2. "The sharpest decline in collective bargaining occurred in the group of European countries that suffered severe economic difficulties during the crisis. The programs accompanying the loan packages of the IMF, European Central Bank and European Union often required changes in wage setting." (ILO)

3. The 'bargaining coverage' rate for this group of 10 countries fell by an average 21 per cent.

4. The UK is currently doing well - a growth rate double that of the Eurozone - but imagine if we fall on harder times? Will the UK then be forced by the EU to accept worse labour conditions?

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