| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Brits living in the EU outside the UK | |
| Posted by: | Adam Gray | |
| Date/Time: | 10/05/15 18:19:00 |
| Let's pluck a non-EU country out of the air...let's say, New Zealand. Is it the case that New Zealanders can settle here, and UK citizens can settle there, provided they meet a set of criteria the respective countries set? Yes. Is it likely that the UK will actively want to retain and, yes, maybe even recruit more of specific types of EU citizen as residents, workers and holiday makers? Yes. Will Spain want to lose the economic benefits of British migration there? No. But if they do, fair enough. We'll therefore end up with a model almost unrecognisable from somewhere like New Zealand. There won't be an automatic right to settle. But there were British migrants in Spain before there was an EEC and there will be British migrants in Spain long after we are free of the EU. I really don't see what the fuss is. The reason this sort of stuff is scaremongering is that those who want to keep Britain stifled and submerged beneath that catastrophic alien bureaucracy claim us eurosceptics want "no immigration or migration whatsoever". Who is seeking that? Not even the silliest UKIPer. We just want to exert the same controls on immigration, and accept controls on our own migration, as we can over New Zealanders, South Africans, Americans and Saudi Arabians. I really don't think that is either unreasonable or anything to fear. |