I know, I get why people voted for it. The EU rules on it though could have been implemented differently though so they were stricter and we chose not to. I genuinely don't think most people actually knew that.

'The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy' (attributed to Wilde)

The EU shares the same problem all organizations share....they want more power. We see it all the time, they start off with a remit and soon enough we hear that to achieve it we need X and Y and that results in never ending expansion until someone pulls the plug.

I've always considered strong decentralisation within a strongly limited collective body as sensible. Indeed, many people would agree with that but the devil is always in the detail and what that actually looks like in reality.

Edited by Stirlingsays (28 Jan 2021 11.55am)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Sorry I beg to differ. The only flexibility that the UK government did not implement on immigration was that after 3 months if a EU citizen had not found a job they could be deported. Oh and Blair chose not to to use quotas at the start.

I think others on here can can probably explain better the problems and costs of deporting anyone so I guess the government decided it wasn't worth the effort.

It is better to stop people coming in the first place than to remove them afterwards.

The only flexibility we had was within the EU rules now we can make up our own rules.

Edited by Badger11 (28 Jan 2021 12.55pm)

One more point

There is no post-EU world.

But there is a post-UK one.

That is why Johnson and his side-kick Starmer are now falling over themselves to ingratiate the Scots, this time it's real.

They must, to preserve the power of the Westminster elite, the 'establishment' (themselves).

Anyone could see that the Scots and NI would be far better off free, look at covid and brexit, actually so would we with regional assemblies.

As for 'levelling-up' the committee set up for this had 28 out of 30 members based south of Watford.

Exactly what quotas are these you refer to?

Please be specific in your answer. Genuinely want to know.

"It feels much better than it ever did, much more sensitive." John Wayne Bobbit

The more of the missing 100 000 nhs staff we can employ, the more work will get done, the more medicine and ppe needed, the more delivery drivers needed, the more costa coff drunk by said staff- simples!