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Thread #164605   Message #3963921
Posted By: Steve Shaw
29-Nov-18 - 03:28 PM
Thread Name: Brexit #2
Subject: RE: Brexit #2
According to the ONS net migration from the EU has plummeted and has now actually turned negative. At the same time net migration from non-EU countries has reached its highest level since 2004. So now the government is going to relax restrictions on non-EU doctors wanting to come here. So we piss off EU citizens to such an extent that we're being forced to increase the raid on non-EU doctors (that we didn't train).

As I said, this "controlling-our-borders" malarkey doesn't work for people leaving or for valuable skills choosing to come here. All it does is stop whichever EU citizens we select from coming here, and it makes EU citizens, either here or on the continent, see this country as an unwelcoming and undesirable place to be. It doesn't even stop non-EU citizens coming here, something that we presumably could control but don't. You really couldn't make this stuff up. One of the main reasons, if not THE main reason, for people voting leave turns out to be the con of the century.