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Originally Posted by Ramrod
I'm suggesting that we do away with the EU rules malarkey. We set the rules. They can have their cherished free movement but we get to decide what benefits (if any) people coming here get. That means that someone who can work as a doctor or in IT and earn a decent wage to support themselves is welcome but someone who wants tocome here without many skills, only earning enough to get top up benefits and qualify for council housing would no longer qualify for hand outs and housing.
We don't discriminate over who comes here, we simply make it uneconomic for low skilled people to bother.
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Except that doesn't meet their definition of free movement and per the above every indication so far is that they will not deviate from this. You can't agree something with someone then change the definition of it to suit your own needs.
If we want restrictions we will likely in turn see restrictions in access to the Single Market. Chances are those restrictions would be on services, and the simplest way is financial services.
We have the biggest Euro foreign exchange. We won't even be in the European Union but want to remain the biggest trader of their currency.
It's really not a great stretch to see the scenario I mentioned earlier where France tie us in knots and we watch 12%, possibly more, of our tax base disappear to save £600m a year in tax credits.
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Originally Posted by ianch99
Dont' worry. If we just keep calm, the EU will see reason and give us the trade deal we want without free movement  We're Great Britain after all, they'll see the error of their ways .. |
Rule Brittania! Brittania waives the rules.