28-01-2017, 20:45
(28-01-2017 14:25 )terence Wrote: [ -> ]freedom of movement is essential, it's the price you pay to be in the single market. smaller countries don't charge bigger countries tariffs, but you have to accept their citizens.
why would they let Britain into the single market without charging them 'freedom of movement'. it's nonsensical.
don't you think all the bigger countries would want to control their borders if the could. they obviously think (correctly imo) that freedom of movement is a price worth paying for membership and access to the worlds biggest free trading bloc..
With this we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one.
1, Freedom of movement only came in in 2004 (the EU functioned before with out it) and seems to have brought in a whole heap of problems. There is a reason there is an influx eastern Europeans seeking better paid work; there is no exedus from Gremany, France etc' and they certainly wouldn't pour into eastern EU countries.
2, People from all over the world live and work in the UK with the correct paper work, including huge amounts of Aussie and other none EU countries. I'm pretty sure a visa based solution could have been found, any immigrant the finds they have a settle life here, application could be made to stay permanately. You would have control of imigration and a controlled movement of people.
3, any areas that has employment crisis can recruit from abroad as they did with the NHS from the commonwealth, the UK owes them more than they do the rest of Europe.
4, granted it may seems to have been a good idea, i get were it's coming from, but I don't think anybody could have thought through what could be the problems; like Merkel opening her boarders; but the call it ESSENTIAL I do not accept, remove that and the UK would have still been in the EU.
People should accept that, with all the good will in the world, freedom of movement is not somehting that will work.
Hundred years and more ago, that amount of people entering a country to take what they can from that country would have been called an invasion, now they don't have to pick up as much as a stick.