Last week it was announced that Labour would seek an “ambitious” youth mobility scheme with the EU. The policy will mean that hundreds of thousands of 18 to 30 year-olds from EU countries are eligible to work in the UK, and vice versa. In other words, exactly the same thing the UK had before it voted to leave the EU.
The Government’s new direction has largely been attributed to Rachel Reeves, who confirmed that Ministers were working on the deal in her speech at the Labour Party Conference. But in the background there has also been a great deal of lobbying for the policy, mostly by groups partly funded by US billionaire George Soros.
One of the most vocal of these is Best for Britain, which received just under £4 million from Soros (via his Open Society Foundations) between 2017 and 2023. The organisation, whose Director has been Lord Kim Darroch since November 2021, first recommended the creation of a youth mobility scheme in 2021. Its website is packed with resources on the subject, including a poll from last year that found “that almost two thirds of Brits (59%) think the Government should negotiate a youth mobility scheme with the EU”, while only 15% are against the idea.
Another loud proponent of the EU-UK mobility scheme is Mike Galsworthy, Chair of European Movement UK and Founder of Scientists4EU, two organisations that have also had significant funding from Soros:
Galsworthy is very well-connected in the Europhile scene, clearly
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Last week it was announced that Labour would seek an “ambitious” youth mobility scheme with the EU. The policy will mean that hundreds of thousands of 18 to 30 year-olds from EU countries are eligible to work in the UK, and vice versa. In other words, exactly the same thing the UK had before it voted to leave the EU.
According to the BBC (first source I found which actually had any details):
Such a scheme could mean those aged 18-30 could stay for two or three years, but the details are to be negotiated.
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The UK already has similar schemes with 11 countries including Australia, New Zealand and Japan, with people able to stay for up to three years depending on where they apply from.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c179z10vy28o
That’s something very much different from EU freedom of movement which grants every EU citizen the right to live and work in any EU country provided he’s able to support himself without recourse to public funds for at least five years, after which he’d gain a permanent right of residence in the country he chose to move to.
Europeans hilariously like to look down on the American political system for the way it is bought and paid for by lobbyists, oblivious and profoundly ignorant to the way European democracies are jist as influenced by money.
The difference is simply that in America it’s much more out in the open. And it’s unabashedly self interested
in Europe the lobby groups pose as NGOs and pretend to be doing it all for the good of society.
In Germany, large parts of the state apparatus pose as NGOs which pretend to be private but which are actually tax-funded. Their tasks are mostly establishment propaganda and organizing demonstrative shows of public support for it.
And in 5 years time..
More WEF automatons in the making.
So as well as creating the largest youth unemployment problem in the UK, the WEF puppeticians in Government want to import the EU’s youth unemployment problem as well.
They really are morons.
No they really hate Britain and the British, they call Farage a racist but it is they who are the racists
Well, not quite. They are also offering to exprt them.
I have to say on this matter Im probably of a very different view than many if not most on here.
Personally I can see no good reason why we shouldn’t have total unrestricted freedom of movement between the UK and every other developed western nation. As long as its among countries of similar wealth and culture, there is really no downside.
I sort of agree though it slightly depends what you mean by “developed” and “similar wealth and culture”. Before the expansion of the EU, French and German people for example could come and live and work in the UK, but not that many did and nobody noticed or cared. After the expansion, millions came from the poorer countries that had been included, and people did notice – though as a racist ethnonationlist I would still favour those countries over completely alien cultures. Another problem with your proposal is that “developed western nations” now include tens of millions or more of poor people from alien cultures.
Youth Mobility Scheme ?
This is simply unfettered immigration by the back door with the vast majority of those (ab)using this “scheme” being nothing more than Turd Worlders who can’t believe their luck.
The plan is to create a visa-bound, time-limited (2 – 3 years) scheme for EU citizens between 18 and 30, similar to agreements the UK already has with a number of other countries (11 according to the BBC).
That wasn’t strictly after the expansion (a goal of British policy at that time) but after Blair had, as opposed to other old EU members, chosen not to limit freedom of movement for citiziens of the new EU members for a certain period of time to let them catch up with the “EU standards of living” first.
Yes, and the lying tosser told us only a handful would come when it was well over a million.
The reality is that Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, the Baltics, are all very different places now o what they were when they joined the EU. So now I doubt you would get the huge numbers from back then.
Czech GDP per capita for example is pretty much on par with the UKs.
That is also a good point, though I think my point about poor immigrants from otherwise rich nations still stands. I don’t think, for example, we would want millions of poor people from the US coming to the UK.
There is really no evidence that that happens, is there?
We didn’t get lots of poor Germans or French coming to Britain when we were in the EU.
What we got were the middle class educated eastern Europeans who, at the time, had far lower middle class incomes in their countries.
It seems to me that poor people are locked into state benefits where they are and don’t move. Even in the US.
The poor people that cone to Britain are from poor countries that have no benefits for the poor.
Fair point – for most it would really depend on whether coming was attractive financially and for the “poor” that would depend on the relative offerings of the benefits systems, or minimum wage levels, or perhaps how easy it might be to work off the books.