EU Referendum: Webchat with Amber Rudd MP, Monday 20 June at 8.30am

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Hello

We’re pleased to announce a webchat with Amber Rudd MP on Monday 20 June at 8.30am. Amber is campaigning for the UK to remain in the EU.

Amber is the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. She has been the Conservative MP for Hastings and Rye since 2010. She says her focus for the constituency has been on ‘job creation, business investment, reducing unemployment and keeping the cost of living as low as possible’.

She also helped to organise Parliament’s cross-party inquiry into unplanned pregnancy, to which Mumsnet members contributed evidence, and which recommended better access to contraception and more sex and relationships education in schools.

Before Parliament, Amber worked in finance, then moved into specialising in recruitment and writing for financial publications.

The EU referendum will be held on 23 June.

Please do join the chat on Monday, or if you can’t make it, please leave a question here in advance. And do bear in mind the webchat guidelines - one question each only (follow-ups allowed if there’s time) and please do be polite.

Thanks
MNHQ

Lottielo the Romanian family getting the council house has convinced many people I know to vote Leave. There were in fact 5 children, and they were allocated a 4-bedroom house.

The parents only spoke a few words of English and had no skills or qualifications. Yet they knew exactly which forms to fill in and which offices to visit in order to get the housing they wanted. They are one of many, many thousands of families using this same method to better their lives and give their children the benefit of a UK education - and I don't blame them in the slightest, I'd do the same in their position.

Last I heard the father was still jobless, but I'm sure he'll soon find a NMW job somewhere, which will open the doors to the in-work benefits which will give him & his family a lifestyle they could only dream of in Romania.

This is all very lovely in the glorious EU-Topia. Everyone sharing, everyone welcoming newcomers. Except that the UK doesn't have any spare cash, any housing capacity, school place capacity, any public service capacity at all in fact. And we have getting on for 2 million unemployed already. Not to mention the future demand on the NHS, the detrimental effect on the schools with new non-English-speaking children, the local families still stuck in overcrowded housing who would have otherwise got that 4-bed house, etc.

(Oh and thanks Amber!)

Amber we keep getting told immigration is good for us, can you explain Labour MP Frank Fields piece on "Vote for the poor, Vote leave?"

"Find compassion for the poor already here, who at the bottom of the heap have scarce resources?"

In my experience, it is the Eastern Europeans who are the most knowledgeable about the benefits available and the most demanding when it comes to their rights, although the vast majority are, of course, contributing greatly and not claiming anything.

I too understand the desire for a better life and would probably do the same if I could. But most countries would never welcome us in the way that we welcome everyone else. The Poles have outright refused to take their quota of 5000 Syrian refugees. Could you imagine if Brits started rocking up overseas with 5 kids in tow demanding a house?! I'm married to an EU migrant and he said the authorities would just laugh at us.

My DH would vote leave if he could because as a migrant he has only seen his wages go down and his work decrease because of competition from new arrival.s