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  I went to a public meeting on the EEC in Wanstead during the early 1980s and one of the main speakers was Ken Livingstone in his role as leader of the now defunct GLC. He warned of the future where multinationals would move around factories and plant to where the labour was cheaper and eventually with free movement of cheap labour they wouldn't even have the expense of relocating.
  
  When free movement first came in wages and living standards were fairly even across the member states so people who did move around simply wanted to gain new experience and/or learn another language and it all evened itself out. Then when the doors were flung open to the poorer countries everything went wrong for people and right for the multinationals. Incidentally up on the stage the newly elected member for Islington North was giving Ken his full support.

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