I don't have a particularly educated opinion. My natural instinct is towards openness, thus the 'yes', but I admit to not having thought through the possible consequences. Is there a decent reason why we aren't currently members, or is it just because successive British Governments are obsessed with keeping out 'foreigners' and think the Daily Hate Mail readers would scream the place down if they joined?
It's because we all know that there's a wall of foreigners sitting in Calais, waiting for our guard to slip, who would pour across and steal our jobs, set fire to our women, and drink all of our beer if we didn't check their passports first. Everyone knows that you can't trust the people on the edges of Europe to actually check their borders, and the filthy foreigners wouldn't want to _stay_ there, so they make a beeline for the only place in Europe that a decent human being would want to be.
Belarus isn't joining any free movement area any time soon. Lukashenko is about as evil a leader as you'll find in Europe, and might even make a world top ten.
(OTOH Ukraine I can definitely see making it in 20 years. I don't trust Yanukovych an inch, but Tymoshenko has his number.)
Given the number of idiots already in our country I don’t think we should be worrying too much about the free movement of additional idiots from abroad.
In fact I wonder if the entrepreneurial spirits who are in a refugee camp in Calais clamouring to get in to our country to give jobs to our women and rent our beer aren’t exactly the sort of person our country needs.
Perhaps the reverse of a joke I once heard on Australian TV.
“The emigration of New Zealanders to Australia has lowered the average IQ of both countries.
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I don't have a particularly educated opinion. My natural instinct is towards openness, thus the 'yes', but I admit to not having thought through the possible consequences. Is there a decent reason why we aren't currently members, or is it just because successive British Governments are obsessed with keeping out 'foreigners' and think the Daily Hate Mail readers would scream the place down if they joined?
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Or something.
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Going all the way to places like Budapest and Copenhagen with Shengen is just super.
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I suspect that within 20 years you'll be able to go as far as the borders of Russia. Just need to get Belarus and Ukraine on board!
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Belarus isn't joining any free movement area any time soon. Lukashenko is about as evil a leader as you'll find in Europe, and might even make a world top ten.
(OTOH Ukraine I can definitely see making it in 20 years. I don't trust Yanukovych an inch, but Tymoshenko has his number.)
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(And less than 20 years since there was a USSR!)
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Dang! You beat me to it! :D
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In fact I wonder if the entrepreneurial spirits who are in a refugee camp in Calais clamouring to get in to our country to give jobs to our women and rent our beer aren’t exactly the sort of person our country needs.
Perhaps the reverse of a joke I once heard on Australian TV.
“The emigration of New Zealanders to Australia has lowered the average IQ of both countries.