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My view has always been that if the UK had put on a show of applying these rules (even if the result was a costly fuck-up) then the Brexit vote would probably have gone the other way.
I suspect there's still a chance that we'll end up with an EU-lite where the "immigration controls" that have been won from the EU are actually these rules.
aggi
I suppose this is of little relevance now but a friend (a history professor) pointed something out to me yesterday.
I knew that the UK doesn't currently exercise the controls available to it to limit EU immigration (means testing, health insurance, etc etc) but what I didnt realise was that it could be implemented regionally.
I.e under current EU legislation, the UK could have made it so the areas of the UK under the perception of immigration pressure could have legally had immigration levels slashed, all without leaving the EU.
Puzzling.