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UK net migration falls to its lowest in three years; EU citizens leaving following Brexit
Net migration has fallen to the lowest level for three years after a surge in the number of EU nationals leaving the UK since last June's Brexit vote. Net migration - the difference between those entering and leaving the UK - fell 81,000 to 246,000 in the year to March 2017. Read full article
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Aug 25th, 2017 - 10:21 am - Link - Report abuse -4Has anyone heard any good news about Brexit yet...?
Is this bad news ? We still have a few Romanian accordion players locally.
Aug 25th, 2017 - 12:25 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Many Poles are returning home as their economy picks up.
We are still getting about 250,000 per annum in an overcrowded little island.
Where are the houses, schools and hospitals to cope with this.
If Ireland is anything to go by these figures are nonsense in as much as we get an influx from E Europe in April/May, they work the season then bugger of home in Oct/Nov.
Aug 25th, 2017 - 02:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They all have NSI numbers (the equivalent of UK NHI numbers) so how the government can keep track of 'settled migration' is beyond comprehension and I suspect the same in the UK.
Trying to wrack my brain here... What happened the last the Slavs where singled out in various European legislation, hmmm??
Aug 25th, 2017 - 06:02 pm - Link - Report abuse -2It will be good news when the number of people on this island is actually falling releasing housing and taking pressure off public services. Too crowded except for sink areas and backwaters.
Aug 25th, 2017 - 09:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In a speech in Poland yesterday, French President Macron said that there will have to be curbs on internal EU mass migrations into countries such as France and Germany
Aug 26th, 2017 - 10:06 am - Link - Report abuse +2This was causing unemployment in these countries by lowering the wages of local workers, and causing dissent. Eventually it could lead to the break up of the EU if it was not tackled !
What a revelation. If they had listened to and taken note of what the UK had been saying for years, then the chances are that we would NOT have voted to leave the EU.
TTT
What happened the last the Slavs where singled out in various European legislation, hmmm??
I don't know, tell me.
The British education system, bolding paving the way forward... back to 1933.
Aug 26th, 2017 - 05:30 pm - Link - Report abuse -1TTT
Aug 26th, 2017 - 06:38 pm - Link - Report abuse +2I don't have clue as to what you are referring in the context of the article above.
A couple of points ...“bolding paving” ....not English.
Also, you used where when you meant were in your first post.
There is NOT a British education system. England and Scotland have their own separate systems with different examinations and qualifications.
Clyde, I thought it obvious that Europe could not sustain such numbers coming from Africa, I hasten to add that in the main it is the poor with no skills that are flooding Europe.Did Macron suggest a solution or not, possibly the latter. I love these people voicing their concerns and yet have nothing going forward.
Aug 27th, 2017 - 06:50 am - Link - Report abuse +1GC
Aug 27th, 2017 - 09:15 am - Link - Report abuse +1I just heard it on the BBC Radio 4 and so far I have not seen it in print.
His concern was EU citizens moving from low wage economies to high wage economies and the volume of internal migrants moving in from Poland, Romania and Bulgaria and basically East Europe. The numbers were too high to cope with and straining the infrastructure, in addition to undercutting the wages of the host countries workers.....something that has been seen here.
However Macron is decidedly for more EU integration, which appears to be at odds with controlling internal EU freedom of movement.
Is less immigration a bad thing? Probably not but it depends on who is coming and who is going. What's not good is people thinking the UK is not an attractive place to live anymore.
Aug 27th, 2017 - 09:51 am - Link - Report abuse -1I looked up what Macron said and apparently there is a specific law he wants to change. Currently firms can move workers to another EU country but continue employing them under their home country's laws, eg lower minimum wage, less rights, not paying taxes in the country where they are working. He wants to prevent any worker being employed in this manner for more than a year.
Also in the article I read was this quote from a French professor:
“The European project has a free-market orientation, in favor of privatization, cutting back the state, public employees and public spending: these are policies that most French people disagree with.”
I find it ironic that different people have such very opposite views of the EU, and this is why it makes me laugh when Brexiters accuse Remainers of supporting the EU because it's socialist.
The question is why is this piece appearing in Mercopenguin, a British government propaganda organ supposedly devoted to America, South America and the “South Atlantic”?
Aug 27th, 2017 - 02:58 pm - Link - Report abuse -2Jog on Sassy, if you don't like it, why keep reading it and commenting on it.Anyway why not report it to Mercpress if you are so against it.
Aug 29th, 2017 - 07:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0The question is why is this piece appearing in Mercopenguin, a British government propaganda organ supposedly devoted to America, South America and the “South Atlantic”?
Sep 02nd, 2017 - 05:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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