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It’s up because it didn’t work. The investment never happened so the harvest rotted in the fields and Christmas dinner was going to be cancelled so the government quietly reversed course.

It was utterly clueless to expect such big changes to happen overnight.

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Its not something that will resolve within 1 or 2 years.

This goes for Brexit in general. It will take decades for things to shake out and the world will be changing all the while.

If businesses had confidence in the government to not reverse course, they might have done something.

But now, any company that did hire domestic workers was left holding the bag and the government created a moral hazard setup on subsidizing being unresponsive to immigration policy changes.

That’s pretty moot. Business would never have confidence because it was pretty obviously a dumb plan.

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