Free Movement of EU Citizens To Britain Will End in 2019 (standard.co.uk)

Free movement of EU citizens to Britain will end when the country leaves the EU in March 2019, Theresa May's spokesman said Monday, moving to contain a Cabinet row over immigration after Brexit. From a report: Downing Street (headquarters of the government of the United Kingdom) said on Monday it was "wrong" to suggest free movement would "continue as it is now" once Britain leaves the EU. It comes following days of confusion and rumours of infighting between Cabinet colleagues over the crucial issue of immigration after Brexit.

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Mosques are Muslim temples.

[Anonymous Coward]

How did the parent comment get modded to 5, Informative?! Mosques are Muslim temples.

Actually quite tragic

[gweihir]

The British joined the EU with special conditions because their economy was in really bad shape. And now they want to leave to improve their economic position? This is really tragic. They seem to have decided that fucking themselves with a wire-brush is a really good idea. And now their moron-in-chief also wants a "hard" exit in addition? Well, we will miss you in the 1st world, that's for sure. And I am well aware that about half of you are _not_ terminally stupid. Makes it even more tragic.

Re:Actually quite tragic

[MightyMartian]

Theresa May has little real political capital anymore, and likely just as little power. There seem to be two competing groups in cabinet; with the Chancellor leading a Soft Brexit bloc and Boris Johnson and Michael Gove being among the chief Brexiteers. My wager is that in the end, with the PM really a dead woman walking, that Hammond's bloc will gain the upper hand, though Johnson, Gove and the 1922 Committee backbenchers will make his life grief. What does seem to be happening, which may have some interesting long-term ramifications for British politics, is that Brexit has divided Parliament into two groups, that don't really align well to the major parties; a Remain group of MPs, with a good many Tories, and probably most Labour MPs, along with the Liberal Democrats and SNP, and a Brexit group which probably represents a fair portion of the Conservative MPs, as well as some Labour MPs, most particularly Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn. From everything I'm reading, both the Tories and Labour are in a state of low-grade civil war right now, with some underlying threats that the Remain MPs, which make up the majority of the MPs in Westminster, could work together to scuttle a Hard Brexit.

And while that's all going on, British and EU negotiators have to try to hammer out a deal that Parliament and all the other EU members can agree on. This is why some are beginning to speculate if Brexit will actually happen.

Re:Actually quite tragic

[AmiMoJo]

Apparently he angrily voted leave because the EU banned something they never actually banned.

That pretty much sums up Brexit. There was a woman on the TV the other day saying she made a last minute decision to vote leave because of EU rules on straight bananas, one of the oldest and most widely debunked Euro myths.

Most people know less than nothing about the EU. By that I mean that they aren't just ignorant, everything they think they know is a lie.

Re: Muslims already won

[MightyMartian]

Either scenario, or a combination of the two, would require unbelievably high birth rates and levels of emigration that only happen in countries with civil wars or mass famines.

In other words, no, Britain is not going to be majority Muslim in 10 years. To believe so requires such an intense degree of stupidity that it's difficult to imagine how one would have the cognitive function sufficient to operate a keyboard... or a flush toilet.

EU is anti-democratic

[HBI]

That was the intent, and the intent was achieved. It's a government of the elites constraining the sovereignty of the plebs. As a result, it is doomed to failure. The peoples constituting it will reject the loss of sovereignty eventually, based upon its lack of a dominating military force. The willy-nilly accession of nations which really weren't comparable to the original EEC members also did them no favors.

It seemed unstoppable as long as the economic forces constrained politics. Then 2008 happened, and that false prosperity was shown to be a lie.

Something akin to true federalism would have been a wiser choice, but no one involved in its creation wanted that kind of weak government. It's too late now to change course. You'd need another WWII type event to set the stage, which is unlikely to happen again in a useful way for pan-Europe enthusiasts.

Re:Irish passport

[Teun]

Maybe to you, but me as an EU citizen I prefer having a European border agency controlled by the EU parliament instead of all kinds of small (Like Albanian, Montenegrin and Macedonian) local governments setting their individual policies.
A bit like the Mexican-US border, what would work better, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California each policing by themselves or the Federal border force?