The outflow of money for workers in this country to their families overseas is notoriously difficult to assess. What is certainly the case is that the vastly greater proportion of it is sent to countries not in the EU. So using that as a reason for our leaving the EU is nonsensical, dishonest - and inhuman. Absolutely piddling set beside the tens of billions of tax evasion by massive corporations and a large number of obscenely-wealthy individuals who employ armies of accountants. At least those minimum-wage migrants are doing something useful. If you want to call yourself a socialist you need to stop demonising hardworking people who struggle on piss-poor, exploitative wages and find a better target.
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