Another fine Mess!

Most people voted Leave in the EU Referendum because "immigration"/"control our borders". But there is more immigration to the UK from outside the EU than from within. Iran and Vietnam want hard currency and don't take back failed asylum seekers. (Please see this blog of 9 January 2019.) Mrs Thatcher was elected in 1979 with the promise to curb immigration, but within weeks she had allowed Vietnamese and Iranians to settle permanently in the UK. With an established community already here, it is no wonder that other Vietnamese and Iranians see the UK as a good place to colonise. Tony Blair says the EU has changed its stance on freedom of movement since the 2016 EU Referendum. And Chuka Umunna MP says the Government can legally deport Romanians who scrounge off the UK state, but won't do it. Instead of reducing immigration by leaving the EU, we are poised to mess up the lives of the Irish, French.... and ourselves.