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The freedom of movement thing frustrates me to no end: There's quite a
few EU countries that set reasonable limits on it (no benefits unless
you worked for half a year, or you need to show you have savings...)
and the UK could have done this too. But, no.This! Why aren't people talking about this?
Ignoring my own views (that immigration is usually a good thing), there is no reason why the UK can't put restrictions on both EU and non EU immigration without leaving the EU.
The UK could halve immigration if it wanted to. The problem is that the government doesn't want to piss off a certain group of people by admitting that they want high immigration to solve the pensions gap, ageing population and stimulate the economy.
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The freedom of movement thing frustrates me to no end: There's quite a few EU countries that set reasonable limits on it (no benefits unless you worked for half a year, or you need to show you have savings...) and the UK could have done this too. But, no.
Complaints about lack of refugee checks seem to be EU wide, it would need investment though in border checks, places for refugees to live, which in the end is tax payer money.
RE financial services, that's more interesting the UK is now in a weak position as France wanted to trading to be done in Euros and the UK veto'd it. If "we" leave...
But that won't influence ROI and their brand of "easy,easy...softly" regulatory enforcement. A lot of that is USA companies though, so if ROI risks leaving the EU it may not totally destroy it.
But the current PM of ROI isn't happy at all with brexit, so perhaps a lot of manoeuvring and negotiation will be done to tighten rules, and enforce them, but not so much it chases ROI into an irexit.