What is wrong with controlled immigration? You can’t just up sticks and go and live in Canada, Australia or the USA.
You missed the whole point of what I was saying, Ug.
Removing FOM will not reduce immigration over all.
There are controls on EU immigration, we just haven't used them.
Removing FOM affects UK citizens' ability to live and work freely in EU member states. This was seen as a good thing when introduced. A great many of your fellow UK citizens are rather annoyed at having this right removed from them and the fact that they will have to 'jump through hoops' to do what they have been able to do quite freely for many years.
So, people from other EU member states come here to work or to study. If there are no jobs for them they, if we applied the rules, have to go home. If they didn't come here to work then people from non EU countries come in their place because the jobs still have to be done; no diminution in immigrant numbers.
So what is the point in stopping FOM? The only other rationale I've ever seen is that it's 'not fair' that EU citizens can come here visa free when the rest of the world can't...
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