Costa has joined with road haulage firms in boosting wages of staff, thanks to the end of freedom of movement cutting off their supply of unlimited cheap foreign labour. Yet more proof of a Brexit dividend…
The coffee shop chain has announced that all of its 14,500 workers will see an increase of 5% from October, ranging from a 45p per hour boost for the lowest paid and 65p an hour for the most experienced baristas. More beans for everyone to count…
Politicos will remember the head of the remain campaign, Stuart Rose, raising the ire of fellow Remainers at the start of the Brexit campaign in 2016, after admitting an end to freedom of movement would increase wages for the lowest paid in society:
Turns out the Remain campaign did at least call one thing correctly…
Stuart Rose, the former chair of Britain Stronger in Europe, has admitted that he regrets ever joining the Remain campaign, and that the supposed economic risks of Brexit were deliberately exaggerated by the Treasury. You don’t say.
Speaking to ITV News today, Rose said:
“…People saying that we’ve really got to hit people on the financials. The argument has got to be about finances and ‘it’s the economy, stupid,’ going back to the Bill Clinton days or whatever it was. And I think that was a big mistake […] It was quite clear that immigration was a big issue. It was quite clear that getting your kids into school was a big issue. It was quite clear that getting a house and into housing was a big issue. It was quite clear that access to the NHS was a big issue. And I don’t think people really took it seriously about ‘Oh, well. You are going to be worse off’”.
Rose added that the campaign decision-making was “chaotic“, with everyone having “slightly different agendas“ and no clear lines of responsibility. The whole thing was, in Rose’s own words, “a bit cack-handed in retrospect”…
The Chairman of the official Britain Stronger in Europe (BSE) campaign, Stuart Rose, has come out as the latest supporter of Boris’s new Brexit deal. A rose among the thorns…
Speaking to the Today Programme, Rose – who led the designated campaign to Remain in the EU during the referendum – said
“I think we’ve just got to move on, we’ve got to reflect on the pros and cons, we’ve put aside our differences, we’ve got to lean in and we’ve got to think of the bigger picture and purpose. So I support it…”
Listen to the audio here:
The crucial endorsement comes after a day of MPs switching their previous votes, including former Labour MPs and hardline ‘Spartans’. It all relies upon Labour MPs honouring their constituents’ votes and their own 2017 promises…
When Alastair Campbell attacked Nigel Farage for attending an “elitist party” at the Ritz on Wednesday night it was tempting fate. Guido wondered aloud, where was Bad Al that night?
@campbellclaret And where were you having dinner last night? 📷
— Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) November 24, 2016
Turns out that Campbell was dining at the Michelin starred River Cafe restaurant in Hammersmith, attending an elitist establishment party of his own with fellow Remain campaign losers Peter Mandelson and Sir John Sawyers, the former boss of MI6, BSE chairman and tycoon Sir Stuart Rose as well as billionaire Remain donor Sir Charles Dunstone.
The River Cafe menu offers slow-roasted veal shin for £37, wood-roasted grouse for £40 and wines at over £2,000 a bottle. The very next day Campbell had the gall to call out Farage for attending an “elitist party” – hypocrisy at its most delicious…
Expect Stuart Rose‘s stunning admission to the Europhile MP Wes Streeting that wages would rise after Brexit to feature in video attack ads over and over again:
Wes Streeting: “If free movement were to end following Brexit, is it not reasonable to suppose that we could see increase in wages of low skilled workers in the UK?”
Stuart Rose: “If you are short of labour the price will go up, so yes. That’s not necessarily a good thing.”
There’s a new attack line for the Leave campaign every time Rose opens his mouth…
Remain campaigners Stuart Rose and Will Straw were hauled in front of the Treasury Select Committee today. The Britain Stronger In chairman received quite the lashing from committee chair Andrew Tyrie, who accused Rose of “intellectual dishonesty” and a “scandalous misuse of data”, in reference to BSE’s discredited claim that EU membership is worth £3,000 to every household in this country. Guido expects more of the Remain camp’s misrepresentations will be exposed over the next few months…
