We don't need cheap imported labour! Neither did the UK! You want cheap goods, lowest costing production?

Then you need the following.

Cooperatives producing all your goods and services in direct marketing that cuts out the profit demanding paper-shuffling middleman. And in that single government imposed imperative, literally halve the cost of doing business or living!

And as that becomes the new normal, oblige every one dollar to circulate around and around in our economy, doing the economic work of seven or more!

And immeasurably assisted by energy-dependent automation and high tech innovation! Plus real tax reform rolled out as a universal applicable flat tax o 15%

The final piece of the economic jigsaw is unconventional nuclear energy and power prices below 3 cent PKWH. And not pie in the sky but with tried, tested and proven old technology! Withheld because of alleged sovereign risk to several foreign players

Can be fuelled with four times more abundant much cheaper thorium, or tasked as nuclear waste burners that then given commonsense decisions, provide virtually free electrical energy and an economy going gang-busters!

We've always had (brain -dead) experts who knew it couldn't be done!

And now hold sway in our parliaments, as decision-makers and worst of all, as elitist, tribal elders, who've never faced a popular vote in their lifetimes!?

I mean, come on, 18-year-old political advisors!? 23-year-olds reportedly deciding against FOI's and so on!

So who's in charge? who's running the country and is the advice they receive and implement? The best and most expert, informed, mature advice? And then we bemoan outcomes!

Well, you put them there Dumbo and enabled their diabolically dumb decisions and any and all outcomes that flow from there!

Maybe if you understand things like an individual's preferred energy policy, labour policy, migration policy, border security,y social security policy etc. Before you placed them on the ballot paper and then turfed them when they failed to support same?

Maybe there'd be far fewer none core promises, idiotic ideological imperatives or taboo topics?
Alan B.