According to Politics Home:
Theresa May is to announce an end to freedom of movement in to the UK at the same as triggering the Article 50 process, according to a report.Freedom of movement rules could face a "cut-off" from next month.
The intervention would mean those who travel to Britain after the process to leave the EU has been kick-started would not be granted automatic right to remain once the UK finally quits the bloc.
A government source told the Telegraph that failure to act on limiting new arrivals could spark “half of Romania and Bulgaria coming here”.
There's one problem with this. We will still be members of the EU when Article 50 is triggered and have no right whatsoever to do this.
Does the rule of law count for nothing these days?
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I am incensed by the news this morning of the deportation of Irene Clennell, her treatment by the immigration authorities was barbaric and if representative of the state of Britain today was cruel and uncivilized. I am relying on other member countries of the EU to recognize us as the barbarians we have become and act accordingly. As for patriotism, forget it
I too was incensed and said so on Twitter
Isn’t this rather slightly bad journalism. Freedom of movement will still be available until we actually leave the EU, but this is the key point:
“those who travel to Britain after the process to leave the EU has been kick-started would not be granted automatic right to remain once the UK finally quits the bloc.”
Yet again though it sets the tone for our negotiations.
I have a feeling May is secretly aware A50 won’t be triggered, for whatever reason, and is taking the opportunity to indulge in some political grandstanding in the interim. Talk’s one thing, action’s another. How does she think she’d do this, anyway? Why would she think it’s up to her? Are we expecting an enabling law in the very near future? More likely this is simple theatre, empty posturing.
Coming at this from a different angle: http://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/brexit-churns-unease-for-britains-speciality-cheese/
I notice that the cretinous farmer that voted for Brexit (& also exports to the EU) also employs Bulgarian and Romanian people – who may well be booted out in May-hem’s bright new Ingerland.
On a related note – if Ingerland leaves there would be little to stop anybody in the EU making Single Gloucester cheese – sticking a Union Jack on it (or whatever flag Ingerland has once Scotland breaks away) & selling it as English cheese – I can think of 77 regional UK products that could be copied. Nice thing is – the Brits have done all the hard work marketing them & with Mrs May-hem making the Europeans that make the products unwelcome I can see a reverse diaspora. Musk sausages (from France).