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UK government considering a “cut-off date” for EU citizens’ rights to residency

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Re: UK government considering a “cut-off date” for EU citizens’ rights to residency

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Post by kyledrake »

pavlov wrote: post #23
golergka wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because you're probably a high-paid professional (reasonable assumption for a HN user) and are not considering staying in the country illegally after you arrive.

Bulgarians have had all this time (10 years) to go live in the UK legally. Why would they suddenly rush to leave everything behind and go live there illegally? It doesn't make any sense.

Is this just straight up racism? What is special about these two specific countries that doesn't apply to any of the other ones in the EU?

Re: UK government considering a “cut-off date” for EU citizens’ rights to residency

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Post by heydenberk »

alecco wrote: post #6

It's sad how even the Independent is now taken by misleading headlines. They are considering stopping it 'after a “cut-off date”'' to prevent abuse of people from poor eastern Europe countries to flood UK before it leaves the EU. Right there in the first couple of paragraphs. I used to have a lot of respect for the BBC, Financial Times, and The Independent. Even The Guardian being partisan had the basic decency of pu…

> I used to have a lot of respect for the BBC, Financial Times, and The Independent. Even The Guardian being partisan had the basic decency of putting things in perspective of the opposing side.

A family watches the local news while awaiting their grandfather's arrival at Sunday dinner. The lead story is about a person causing chaos driving the wrong way on the highway. They quickly realize that the person is on the same highway that their grandfather usually takes to their house and call their grandfather to warn him.

"Grandpa, there's a person going the wrong way on the highway! Be careful!"

"_A_ person?" the grandfather replies angrily. "There's hundreds of 'em!"

Re: UK government considering a “cut-off date” for EU citizens’ rights to residency

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Post by TorKlingberg »

sparkzilla wrote: post #39

Why is this on HN?

The UK, and especially London is a major startup hub, with many Europeans working or running companies here. It's sort of like articles about housing in San Francisco: not directly related to tech, but indirectly very important.

Re: UK government considering a “cut-off date” for EU citizens’ rights to residency

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Post by magic_beans »

EasyTiger_ wrote: post #37
alecco wrote: post #6

It's sad how even the Independent is now taken by misleading headlines. They are considering stopping it 'after a “cut-off date”'' to prevent abuse of people from poor eastern Europe countries to flood UK before it leaves the EU. Right there in the first couple of paragraphs. I used to have a lot of respect for the BBC, Financial Times, and The Independent. Even The Guardian being partisan had the basic decency of pu…

Yup I fully agree, the change in the BBC has become the most disheartening for me. One of their subheadlines right now is "Nine epic award fails" - like something straight out of Buzzfeed

Honestly, you can't blame the BBC for that subheadline... blame the readership.

Re: UK government considering a “cut-off date” for EU citizens’ rights to residency

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Post by magic_beans »

kyledrake wrote: post #91
pavlov wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bulgarians have had all this time (10 years) to go live in the UK legally. Why would they suddenly rush to leave everything behind and go live there illegally? It doesn't make any sense.

Is this just straight up racism? What is special about these two specific countries that doesn't apply to any of the other ones in the EU?

Size of economy.

Re: UK government considering a “cut-off date” for EU citizens’ rights to residency

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Post by oblio »

pjc50 wrote: post #75
alecco wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are you talking aobut? EU protectionism raises food prices.

http://www.fwi.co.uk/news/nfu-issues-warning-potential-labou... http://www.producebusinessuk.com/insight/insight-stories/201... “UK citizens do not like to come and pick our crops and so we have to bring in workers from the EU; from Poland, Czech Republic and Bulgaria etc. They represent 95 percent of our workforce and without them we are absolutely sunk,” he said.

No, man, I'm sure the lower class British workers will be glad to work for crap pay and be treated as sh*t just so the rest of the Britons get cheap produce :)

Re: UK government considering a “cut-off date” for EU citizens’ rights to residency

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Post by EasyTiger_ »

magic_beans wrote: post #94
EasyTiger_ wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup I fully agree, the change in the BBC has become the most disheartening for me. One of their subheadlines right now is "Nine epic award fails" - like something straight out of Buzzfeed

Honestly, you can't blame the BBC for that subheadline... blame the readership.

No, I'll blame the BBC thanks.

Re: UK government considering a “cut-off date” for EU citizens’ rights to residency

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

tobltobs wrote: post #59
tonyedgecombe wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's fairly easy to foresee a rush to get in before the door closes.

Why? Serious question. What kind of benefit, advantage would they achieve? To my understanding of the UK immigration system there wouldn't be any.

If I was thinking of emigrating anywhere and I knew the door would close in two years then I would bring forward my plans, if I found out it was closing in a couple of weeks I'd think it was already too late. I don't see why this is controversial.
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