In message , at 09:40:38 on Tue, 24 Jan
2017, tim... remarked:
They weren't objecting to tourists and casual visitors. They wanted to
limit the number of foreign workers potentially taking jobs from British
workers, and foreign users of the NHS and other welfare services.

What about foreign workers in the NHS? I accompanied someone today for a
minor operation, and of the dozen or more staff we came into contact
with (from receptionist to surgeon) only three appeared (from their
accents) to be born and bred in the UK.

Nobody ever accused the Bexiteers of being excessively rational!

Except that they do, mostly, accept we need the skilled workers

it's the unskilled ones (without jobs, when they arrive) that we don't need

You think are lots of people arriving like that? Well, perhaps the
asylum seekers, but generally they aren't EU citizens (even Assange
isn't).

No, they are recruited by the employers and come here to work on jobs
the locals are not qualified for (in the sense they would rather be on
the dole than do them).
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Roland Perry