harvey19 Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 (edited) If I remember correctly in the 1960s Southern Irish building workers could work tax free in England for 6 months. Edited September 15, 2023 by harvey19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuttsie Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 2 hours ago, m williamson said: Despite which immigration into this country has increased far more than it was when we were EU members. The difference being that immigrants are now mainly coming from outside the EU. https://www.politico.eu/article/three-years-after-britain-left-eu-net-migration-never-been-higher-brexit/#:~:text=LONDON — It's official%3A net migration,the highest number on record. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/migration-rise-uk-economy-brexit-b2302159.html The EU requirement was that any citizen of any member country could move to any other EU country and work there. The regulation also stated that that right was only for 90 days. After which time if the person couldn't prove that they could support themselves without state aid they had to leave. A number of EU member states including Denmark and The Netherlands enforced that requirement. Obviously in order to do so a certain amount of efficiency and competence is required. Our government did not enforce the requirement 🙄 instead they did what they always did back then, blame the EU. https://www.bmi.bund.de/EN/topics/migration/law-on-foreigners/freedom-of-movement/freedom-of-movement-node.html As a matter of interest were you aware of that cuttsie? No I was not but it did not work , many still here who have never worked a day . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axe Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 16 minutes ago, harvey19 said: If I remember correctly in the 1960s Southern Irish building workers could work tax free in England for 6 months. They were around 200 years earlier helping to build the canals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister M Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 (edited) 56 minutes ago, Axe said: The Cheeky Girls are two embarrassing Remain posters that spring to mind. The only people on this thread who are embarrassed are those who voted leave, but pretend to have voted remain. But you wouldn't know anything about that would you, Axe? Edited September 15, 2023 by Mister M 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geared Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 You mean Westy or Lockdoctor, or whatever they want to go by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m williamson Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 4 minutes ago, cuttsie said: No I was not but it did not work , many still here who have never worked a day . It didn't work because it wasn't implemented. The ability was provided by the EU directive to enable the authorities to control citizens from other EU countries by ensuring that they needed to provide proof of where they were staying and report in when required and then after three months provide proof that they were able to support themselves or they had to leave. Other EU countries applied those restrictions, we didn't. We can hardly blame the EU for that but that is exactly what our politicians did. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magilla Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 Ports and truckers clash over post-Brexit border costs: https://www.ft.com/content/e6013e65-e7ee-4b0d-bfa6-86f92a48d2eb Transport groups have “strongly opposed” a government proposal to charge an “exceptionally high” flat fee of up to £43 on animal and plant products entering the UK via Wales and the Kent coast, warning that it would further drive up food inflation. But port operators have called on the government to enforce the charge more widely, arguing that this would help them recoup investments in the multimillion pound border facilities they had to build in preparation for Brexit. More costs and wasted energy... zero gain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 31 minutes ago, Magilla said: Ports and truckers clash over post-Brexit border costs: https://www.ft.com/content/e6013e65-e7ee-4b0d-bfa6-86f92a48d2eb Transport groups have “strongly opposed” a government proposal to charge an “exceptionally high” flat fee of up to £43 on animal and plant products entering the UK via Wales and the Kent coast, warning that it would further drive up food inflation. But port operators have called on the government to enforce the charge more widely, arguing that this would help them recoup investments in the multimillion pound border facilities they had to build in preparation for Brexit. More costs and wasted energy... zero gain. This should be required reading for our contributors who insist that Brexit has been a success and that it has not caused costs to rise and that we are now trading normally again. I suppose they will find a way to skirt around the facts rather than be honest and accept that it has been a disaster for the UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geared Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 1 hour ago, Organgrinder said: This should be required reading for our contributors who insist that Brexit has been a success and that it has not caused costs to rise and that we are now trading normally again. You know full well those people don't do any kind of reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Bundy Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 (edited) 14 minutes ago, geared said: You know full well those people don't do any kind of reading. Mick Lynch would not like this accusation. Edited September 16, 2023 by Al Bundy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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