Police could seize illegal workers' wages under Tory plans

[jimmy olsen]

Cool.

Really? Would you support similar legislation in the United States?

[derspiess]

Cool.

ReallyWould you support similar legislation in the United States?

Maybe if it had a catchy name.

[celedhring]

Man so no special sort of arrangement for citizens of Commonwealth countries? Huh. Where is the love for the colonials?

As part of joining the EC they had to get rid of any colonial preferences.

Are you sure? We do keep the preferences for ours.

[Iormlund]

Man so no special sort of arrangement for citizens of Commonwealth countries? Huh. Where is the love for the colonials?

As part of joining the EC they had to get rid of any colonial preferences.

Are you sure? We do keep the preferences for ours.

Yep. Former subjects of the Crown such as Latinamericans and Sephardi Jews have much easier access to citizenship.

[Duque de Bragança]

In Sweden we'd be thrilled if foreigners worked.

I thought they worked for the social-democrats as voters? 

No foreigners are weak in voting.

Local or national elections?

National elections.

I thought it would be the opposite but I'll take your word for it. Depends on the  naturalisation laws as well.

[The Minsky Moment]

Just one episode of the lunacy of the British immigration system.

This was not on my radar screen until I read about Cameron's speech in today's paper.  At first I thought it was some kind of joke - then I read the actual speech and no it's really what he said.  A country that is near full employment but is suffering from productivity shortfalls actually sets as a policy goal to LOWER the amount of skilled immigrants ?!  Artificially limiting the time professions can be classified as having skills shortage ?!  Attacking sectors for being "over-reliant" on skilled immigrants ?!  Seeking to shut down skilled immigrants from outside the EU -- i,e. telling a giant FU to all those Indian STEM grads ?!

WTF is a country of 64 million people doing fretting about a net migration rate of 300K (less than 1/2 a percent), and who in his right mind would respond to such a fake "problem" by cracking down and harassing HIGHLY SKILLED IMMIGRANTS?



Is this some English self-deprecation thing, where having won an unexpectedly strong electoral triumph, Cameron feels the need to humble himself by making the single most idiotic speech by a first world leader in the last decade (not named George Bush)?

As an American all I can say is great - we'll take 'em.

[Razgovory]

Well there goes Tamas's nest egg.

[Ed Anger]

Well there goes Tamas's nest egg.

6 beets and a ball of yarn.

[Zanza]

Man so no special sort of arrangement for citizens of Commonwealth countries? Huh. Where is the love for the colonials?

As part of joining the EC they had to get rid of any colonial preferences.

As the Spanish posters said above, that's just not true. Not having a common immigration policy in the EU is one of the current issues we have with those boats in the Med.
Each country regulates it however it wants. Britain could still have Imperial preference in immigration.
Germany immediately gives citizenship to people whose ancestors were deprived of their German citizenship by the Nazis for example. You don't even have to ever set foot in Germany for that.

[garbon]

I believe Britain still does give some lead to citizens in Commonwealth nations who had a grandparent who was a British citizen.

[jimmy olsen]

I believe Britain still does give some lead to citizens in Commonwealth nations who had a grandparent who was a British citizen.

I have a British grandparent!  That's discriminatory!   

[Josquius]

As part of joining the EC they had to get rid of any colonial preferences.

That seems unusual.
Don't latin Americans still get special treatment in Iberia?

In Sweden we'd be thrilled if foreigners worked.

They would be thrilled if you would employ them.

[Norgy]

Europe and immigration seem to cause a chemical reaction that leads to brownshirts/blackshirts.

[Duque de Bragança]

As part of joining the EC they had to get rid of any colonial preferences.

That seems unusual.
Don't latin Americans still get special treatment in Iberia?

Brazilians got the treaty of Porto Seguro which gaves them an almost-Portuguese citizen status in Portugal, but that does not include the free travel rights in the EEA.

[Eddie Teach]

I believe Britain still does give some lead to citizens in Commonwealth nations who had a grandparent who was a British citizen.