Stop EU citizens travelling to UK in search of work, says Labour

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A change to one of the founding principles of the EU – freedom of movement – should be introduced to prevent EU citizens travelling to Britain in search of a job, the shadow business secretary, Chuka Umunna, has said.

As a leading European commissioner accused the British government of peddling myths about migrants, Umunna said highly skilled EU citizens should be banned from taking low-skilled jobs in Britain.

Speaking on BBC1's Question Time on Thursday night, Umunna said the last Labour government had been wrong not to impose work restrictions on Poland and seven other eastern European countries when they joined the EU in 2004.

Umunna said the EU should change its rules to prevent citizens from travelling to other member states in search of work with a focus on banning highly skilled workers from less affluent EU members taking low-skilled jobs in richer member states.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/10/stop-eu-citizens-travelling-uk-work-labour

[non sociopath skin]

1. Up on the bandwagon we jump ....

The Skin

[T_i_B]

2. Depressing isn't it.....

....all our politicians are more interested in scapegoating people then helping them.

[LeftishBrit]

4. Sadly true.

[LeftishBrit]

3. Good luck with the UK unilaterally getting the EU to change its rules...

And if it does, then a few years down the line, British people will be moaning because we can't work freely in other EU countries. We Brits are not necessarily always seen as God's gift to the EU. It should be remembered that our original entry to the Common Market, as it then was, was delayed not mainly because of British Euro-scepticism, but because other countries, mainly France, didn't want us in!

I am neither strongly pro- nor anti-EU (I have sometimes said that I might be a Eurosceptic if it weren't for the Eurosceptics!); but we can't have it both ways. We can't make use of all the facilities provided by the EU, and then try unilaterally to prevent others from using the same facilities.

[dipsydoodle]

5. There is an easy solution but it wouldn't go down very well elsewhere

which the EU would have no say over . Impose capital controls again. The issue isn't really the jobs they occupy and the benefits to which they are entitled even when their children remain in their own country - its the flight of money being returned to their home country instead of being, in this case, spent in the UK which amounts to milking the economy.