That is the talk, not the implementation. The talk is to only allow in people with skills we need. Well guess what: the people here now are exactly the ones with the skills we need. They are all employed, there is no massive native pool of unemployment, they were all needed to do something. And that is why they have not gone home again, because there are unfilled jobs here for them to do.The concept is to have immigration based on skills. In general terms those with skills we need (eg nurses) can come in; those with skills we don't (eg coffee bar workers) cannot.
I am not aware of any restrictions currently on skilled workers from anywhere to fill recognised skill shortages, whether that skill is medicine, banking, or picking vegetables.Skilled workers from the EU would still come, and in addition skilled workers from outside the EU. The skilled workers from outside the EU are restricted at present because we cannot cope with the total number of immigrants.
No, not fewer in number. That is the lie. Unless leaving the Eu causes a crash in the UK economy and job losses, in which case of course these people would be out of work just like natives. In fact, your prediction of job losses if we exit seems to confirm the economists predictions of a shrinking economy.In effect we would be substituting unskilled workers from the EU with skilled workers from outside the EU (though fewer in number).
And you believe the public would find this an acceptable alternative to take Syrians who do not speak english and have funny ideas instead of white catholic poles who learnt english before coming because.....?Additionally the UK would be able to take more refugees, skilled and unskilled. Maybe unskilled Syrians could work in coffee bars in place of unskilled Poles.
But this is what we chose to do. It has been the policy of the EU for a very long time. We nationally encouraged it because we wanted to take those european countries away from soviet control. This was an example of the UK exerting its world power via membership of the EU. Yet now you want to walk away from that decision.A virtual fence needs to be around an area with reasonably similar income levels. The UK can certainly cope with disparities within the UK and seek to reduce these. We cannot cope with disparities as acute as with Eastern European nations.
I agree with you there is an element of encouraging development of the poorer members within the EU, and there always has been. We benefitted from this too. Whats more, it worked. Irish went home to ireland instead of infesting the UK looking for work. English went home to England instead of infesting Germany.
Thats nonsense. There is no significant cost to the NHS from EU visitors. And anyway, leavers plan is simply to replace EU visitors with non Eu visitors.A UK within the EU means an end to the NHS and an end to any sort of effort towards a level playing field for schooling.
I do not see what this has to do with the EU. In Britain exactly the same has happened to the poor under the current conservative government. What proposals are being made to exit the westminster government which is oppressing them?The poor will be downtrodden as in Greece -