Under current rules EU migrants looking for work can stay a maximum of 3 months in another EU country. David Cameron's great plan, which includes INCREASING that time period to 6 months, indicates how misinformed so many Tories and our media are. At least UKIP are honest, they want to stop all migration and could not care less about the fate of the 2.5 Million Brits who have used their freedom of movement to live and retire elsewhere in the EU.
Benefit tourism is also a myth, as migrant cannot claim ANY benefits unless they have worked here, and paid the same taxes to qualify as everyone else. All analysis show that immigration adds to British prosperity. The only credible argument is that the country is overcrowded, but migration is a 2-way process - for many years more people left than arrived, now it is swung a bit the other way - thankfully for 2 reasons 1) it has made the country more prosperous 2) it has altered the demographics of the UK which without immigration would be an ageing population.
Time for honesty please. By all means leave the EU, and stop all migrants - but accept that that means we will be a poorer country, with an ageing society less able to take care of itself.
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