Posted on 07/03/2016 4:31:44 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Voters will have to wait before migration can begin to be cut despite Britain deciding to leave the European Union, Theresa May has warned.
The Home Secretary, who is the front-runner in the Conservative leadership election, promises to reform the EU’s rules on “free movement” of people, which currently allow an unlimited number of migrants to move to the UK to live and work.
However, she stops short of promising to abolish free movement altogether, warning that it will “take time” before the numbers of immigrants come down.
The issue of cutting migration is one of the critical battlegrounds in the negotiation between the UK and the EU’s remaining 27 member states during talks to negotiate Brexit in the months and years ahead.
It was a critical subject in the referendum campaign, with figures showing net migration is now running at 333,000 a year.
Vote Leave campaigners promised that “taking back control” over the borders would allow the government to impose strict limits on the numbers of migrants coming into the UK.
Michael Gove, who led Vote Leave and is Mrs May’s leadership rival, promises today to introduce an Australian points-based system for immigration. Other leadership candidates, including Liam Fox and Andrea Leadsom, both of whom campaigned to leave the EU, also promise to abolish free movement.
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She would be a foot dragger as PM and not someone who would wholeheartedly embrace the will of the voters.
The “powers that be” will drag any any exit process out and subvert the vote. The only time that things will change is when politicians start being found hanging from lamp posts.
Cox, a supporter of Britain's European Union membership who had also campaigned for Britain to do more to help refugees, was killed in her northern English electoral district by a man heard shouting "Britain first".
She “gets it” but she is not going to treat it as anything more than a little tweak from the stupid masses.
Peter Hitchens comes out in today’s “Mail on Sunday” column calling Theresa May a ‘left-wing liberal’ and ‘politically correct’.
She’s a CINO big time.....
The elites who control most of the media, most of the elected officials and virtually all of the judiciary in the UK will not allow the Leave vote to be implemented.
How can anyone who voted to stay be trusted to leave?
FWIW, I read another NYTimes article claiming poor Welsh regions and other poor regions receive more than they paid to the EU. Because it is the NYT I am skeptical of this claim.
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