Article by Alan Travis in today's Guardian about a National Institute of Economic and Social Research report on possible Bulgarian and Romanian migration.
http://www.niesr.ac.uk/publications/potential-impacts-uk-future-migration-bulgaria-and-romania#.UV8vvzd-gwp
The report was commissioned by the Foreign Office - a government department which has an idiosyncratic attitude towards democracy and the obligation of civil servants to implement the democratic will of the people ("we are the mandarins of the civil service, there is no need to bother with democratic consent we will make wise decisions on your behalf based on what we think you ought to have").
Anyway, the report says that the Bulgarians and Romanians are not going to come here (probably).
Which presumably means it doesn't matter what barriers we put up against them.
They are not coming here right?
Therefore we can go full steam ahead with comprehensive and effective barriers to migrants from Bulgaria and Romania. The NIESR report says the migrants are not coming here, so it doesn't matter how draconian we make the barriers (and personally, I want to see a completely closed door) no-one is going to be affected as none of the migrants are coming here. Problem solved and everybody happy!
2 comments:
If you don't like Romanians and Bulgarians having equal working rights with Britons, get out of the EU. However, as long it UK is in the EU, the country MUST comply with EU Law and allow all EU citizens, including Romanians and Bulgarians to work in UK.
All this hate campaign against the citizens of these two countries in UK is reminiscent of the Nazi racist campaigns. Funny how the country that have defeated Hitler uses the same rhetoric against those considered "undesirables"
Absolutely Anonymous, the only sane solution is to leave the EU which is a horribly abusive and undemocratic organisation that serves only the people who run it (and cannot even do that successfully).
However you do not seem to realise that EU "law" (sic) allows a country to impose restrictions on movement in exceptional circumstances - the kind of migrations we have seen with previous accession countries and the current social and economic conditions in Bulgaria and Romania suggests that this episode is also going to be an exceptional incident and therefore the British government should act to protect the United Kingdom.
You say this is "reminiscent of the Nazi racist campaigns" but I doubt you are old enough to be able to reminisce the 1930s (it would make you at least 85) so I suspect you are just making this up - perhaps you have been watching too much television?
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