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![stanfordNYC Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::722590431234691073.png) Bernard Stanford ✡︎ [@stanfordNYC](/creator/twitter/stanfordNYC) on x 4808 followers
Created: 2025-07-15 16:25:11 UTC

Considering long term social support costs and the opportunity cost of having XXXXXXX skilled labor immigrants through a competitive process instead, this move could easily have a NPV cost of tens of billions of pounds, or a good single digit percentage of the UK annual budget.


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