Monday, 14 September 2015

Conservative commitments - 32, 26 failures


Insisting new EU member states' citizens do not have free movement rights "until their economies have converged much more closely with existing member states"  
I had a vague hope of getting to some important issues, but it seems that we’re stuck on EU migrants. If the previous policies are expected to be effective, we don’t need this: we’ll already have ensured that migrants don’t cost any money. If the previous policies aren’t expected to be effective, why have them? This is a waste of space and time that is only here to try to appeal to voters who believe migration to be a big issue. Again, it would be responsible to attack the big issues and inform people why, not to flail around wherever an opinion poll says might catch a few votes. But since this one is a bit different, let’s just note that immigrants contribute to Britain’s successful business. Without skilled EU graduates British business would not be competitive. The Conservatives have a dilemma. Do they want successful business or no immigrants?

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