"Tim Watts" wrote in message
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On 24/06/14 23:43, Adrian wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:22:36 +0100, Tim Watts wrote:

perhaps it should be limited to people with British nationality -
which brings us back to the whole EU debate quite squarely.

Well, quite. And should that limitation be to _locals_? Would a
Londoner get preference for a job in Belfast over somebody from Dublin?

Belfast is in the UK. Dublin is not.

So that's a "Yes"? Somebody from across a much wider sea than that
between France and the UK SHOULD get preference to somebody who lives a
mile away? Because that's where somebody drew a line on a map, nearly a
century ago?

Yes. It's a national border. Simple. That is the entire point of a
national border.

That's all there is to it in my book...

Edinburgh is in the UK. It may not be soon. Should all Scots in London
have their working privileges revoked, if the referendum goes that way?
After all, they'll be no different to an Irishman or a Frenchman or a
Pole. They'll be _foreign_.

Dunno - that's one for the possible national government of Scotland and
the UK to sort out.

In reality I expect the Scots will be treated as defacto EU members even
though that process could take years to formalise.


Well, apart from the forty years the UK's been partaking "testing" it.
Roughly a working lifetime.


We have not had open borders (in any practical sense) for that long and
certainly not with countries that have highly disparate economies.

Bull**** with Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy particularly.

So the relevant date would be 2004 ish when the first EU enlargemnt took
effect.

Pity about Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy

You don't get a lot of temporary mobile german or french workers here
because those countries have economic parity with the UK.

But there have always been plenty from Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy

And hordes of poms going the other way too.