Date: 2016-10-13 03:25 pm (UTC)
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I'm not entirely sure I follow your point about Pakistan, since the UK has had immigration curbs on all our Commonwealth allies (formerly countries that were part of the empire, of course) for the last thirty or forty years at least. Citizens of Commonwealth countries have no rights of free immigration into the UK. Numbers are relatively low, and almost all entrants are here due to familial or matrimonial ties.

The Single Market allows for free movement of citizens - for work or domicile - between members of the EU only. The exceptions are those (very few) countries that are part of the European Economic Area, where for the right of trade with the EU without the massive tariffs imposed by other trade agreements, they have to accept freedom of movement as well as other EU legislation, even though they have no right to vote on EU measures.

The point is, you have to be a full or partial member of the EU club to have the right of free movement. Old empire links - ours, France, Germany, even Belgium - don't apply.

Sadly, the likelihood here in the UK is that we'll end up with the worst of all possible worlds, claiming our Little Englander Trump-like isolationsism is worth a tanking £ and an economy sinking out of sight, so long as we can stop those bloody Europeans coming in here stealing the jobs of true blue Englishmen. From which you may gather I did not vote for Brexit and I view the future with some despair.
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