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Poll Suggests Brexiters Now Want Free Movement?
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Based on polling of more than 9,000 people across the UK and the EU’s five most populous countries – Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Poland – in the weeks after Trump’s election win in November, the ECFR study found the strongest enthusiasm for renewed ties were in Britain.
Perhaps the most striking finding was that 54% of Britons who voted leave, including 59% of voters in “red wall seats”, said in exchange for single market access they would now accept full free movement for EU and UK citizens to travel, live and work across borders.
This could be because the surge in net migration to the UK after 2016 meant that Brexit was no longer seen by its supporters as the answer on immigration, the report suggested.//
i know a couple of brexit voters to whom this would apply but i am very skeptical indeed about the percentages in this report.
what do you think?
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An European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) thinktank commisioned it Khandro, guess thats not biased🙄
//Based on polling of more than 9,000 people across the UK and the EU’s five most populous countries – Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Poland//
Sly wording trying to associuate the 9000 with the UK when if read carefully it is across 6 coutries. So not much of a poll was it?
We've near enough got freedom of movement. In 2023 1.2 million people arrived to settle here. That's quite enough and more than enough to completely overwhelm the communities where these numbers settle.
In the next 20 years, if immigration remains unchecked, 92% of the country's population growth will be as a result of it.
Meanwhile, the government is planning to virtually withdraw the right of local authorities to control housebuilding in order to build 300,000 new homes a year. If that figure is achieved (which is very unlikley) it will not scratch the surface of the accommodation problem. That leaves aside the extra burden such numbers will have on essential services.
I don't know who these people are who see access to the shrinking single market as so much more important than a descent into chaos, but whoever they are they should seek medical help immediately.
Quite how the opinion of people in other countries is at all relevant is a bit of a mystery.
Anybody suggesting
Untitled; I am a British citizen with a British passport, I live in Germany and have exhibitions in France. I live an hour's drive from (European but non EU) Switzerland, where I visit often without any hindrance.
Where's the problem ?
The main reason why the EU want Britain back is they miss the 8 billion quid p.a. which they lost, & we got little for, when we sensibly left their bureaucratic, undemocratic & increasingly woke road-show.
" I live an hour's drive from (European but non EU) Switzerland, where I visit often without any hindrance."
Unforunately not a very good endorsement, Khandro.
Switzerland is part of he Single Market, is a Schengen member and "enjoys" freedom of movement between itself and the EU.
The only major EU instiution in which it does not participate is the Customs Union and the EU have been pressurising it to consolidate that into an all embracing treaty, which up to now Switzerland has resisted.
But the EU has begun to bully Switzerland by threatening o rescind some of he bilateral agreements it has with he EU, so it probably won't be long.
You can't be "half in" the EU. Generally they won't hear of it (I'm pleased to say).
NJ //Unfortunately not a very good endorsement, Khandro.
Switzerland is part of he Single Market, is a Schengen member and "enjoys" freedom of movement between itself and the EU.//
Not quite so free as you imply; to enter Switzerland by car you have to either purchase beforehand, or buy at the border, their 'vignette' to display on your widscreen or you can now have a Digitale Vignette Schweiz. Either way a clear record of your details are taken.
//"...to enter Switzerland by car you have to either purchase beforehand, or buy at the border, their 'vignette'"
That's a toll payment for using their motorways, Khandro.//
Tell me about it. We got lost trying to return a hired car to Geneva Airport. Strayed into Switzerland for about a mile and had to buy a year's worth of vignette.
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