[Gay State Conservative]

They can't and don't.

I thought that basically any EU "citizen" had the right,under current regulations,to live and work in Britain.

A few years ago we went to Britain and Ireland and all we encountered in restaurants (for example) were Poles!

[Winniesboy]

You’re right, they do. But that right isn’t ‘determined by foreign bureaucrats’. It was determined by the British government when it signed the Maastricht Treaty in 1992.

[JZelle]

Are you sure you weren’t in a strip bar?

[Cronos]

I thought that basically any EU "citizen" had the right,under current regulations,to live and work in Britain.

A few years ago we went to Britain and Ireland and all we encountered in restaurants (for example) were Poles!

Yes - and Poles are EU citizens. the immigrants from Asia etc. are residents - temporary or permanent (to get a permanent residency you have to live and work for at least 5 to 10 years continuously and citizenship takes longer) - the "refugees" (really migrants) got temporary residency in Germany but cannot travel to the UK (not part of Schengen) nor reside, nor work without separately applying to the UK