Garry Nelson's teacher
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Maybe they will start paying decent wages now then to recruit
I don't think it quite works this way. For one thing it is pretty likely that Brexit will cause an economic downturn. This will increase unemployment and all things being equal this depresses wages. Secondly, the £ will probably fall - this will ratchet up (import) input costs and put pressure on wages. To vote for Brexit on the basis of a consequent general rise in wages would not have been a good reason to do so. Of course many of us think that there were lots of other reasons not to do so too.
Finally there wasn't a lot of evidence beyond the anecdotal that high levels of immigration depressed wages, although in some areas of the country there might have been local labour market.consequences.