The one and a quarter million people Denis MacShane refers to

"1.4 million Brits live in other EU countries and 435.000 retired - all with same right as local nationals" says Denis MacShane MP.

This is a rather bogus argument to defend unrestricted migration into the United Kingdom.

The one and a quarter million people Denis MacShane refers to have left.

One wishes them well.

Good luck to them in fact.

But they have left.

Unskilled and semi-skilled workers in the United Kingdom are seeing a catastrophic drop in their wages due to undercutting by migrants who are willing to work for next to nothing.

What possible compensation can it be for such workers that one and a quarter million wealthy pensioners and corporate executives are doing very well for themselves elsewhere in the EU?

These people have left, and any obligation we had towards them left at the same time.