The Labour government will offer Brussels a ‘youth mobility scheme,’ after spending months denying that plans to relax migration rules with the European Union were even in the works.
Rather than allowing an unlimited number of adults from the EU under the age of 30 to remain in the UK (and vice versa), a cap of 70,000 could be applied—presumably as a net figure—The Times reports. That’s a major Brexit sellout, even if Brussels accepts the cap, given the figure is about the same as what politicians long promised would be Britain’s total annual migration intake—never mind just for youths from the Continent.
Robert Bates, research director at the Centre for Migration Control, said Labour’s “imminent capitulation to Brussels’ demands shows yet again that they will never be on the side of Britain or British workers.” He told europeanconservative.com:
It will put further pressure on the job market, pricing out British workers in the gig economy and students looking for work to make some extra income.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s ‘surrender unit,’ as it has been dubbed, is also said to have bowed down to the EU’s demands for alignment on food safety rules and—as we previously reported—on energy. The latter will enable Brussels to set caps on the amount of greenhouse gasses that can be produced by various industries in the UK.
As if this wasn’t enough, alignment on these fronts will be kept in regular check by the European Court of Justice—another capitulation that the UK’s major Brexit contingent will not take lightly.
Former Brexit negotiator David Frost said “we knew it was coming,” but stressed the significance of this betrayal being confirmed.
Shame on you Keir Starmer and [UK minister for EU relations] Nick Thomas-Symonds for selling out this country’s self-government to a foreign court.
Tory peer Jacqueline Foster added that Starmer was “deliberately overriding the democratic vote of 17.4 million people” who voted for Brexit in 2016—not that such a plan featured in its evasive election manifesto.
Further sellouts should now be expected from Labour on British fishing rights, which will be discussed with France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Denmark over the coming months. Starmer, said Bates, “is already the laughing stock of Europe and it looks like he is, yet again, set to bend the knee.”
He is a weak man creating a multitude of problems for our country.
