Thought I'd start a new thread as this is going to be a major talking point this year...have not made up my mind yet...(unlike bucksfizz)....but thinking of voting for an exit as Europe is not doing Britain any good at all it seems....

Merkels CDU party down to 3rd place.
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Couldn't agree more Jimmy. Total phony. Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth in public but it needs washing out with carbolic in private. Public figures should expect public scrutiny. Its the way we work. Who cares what happens elsewhere? Doesn't make it right. Maybe that's why so many want to come here.

http://news.sky.com/story/points-based-immigration-system-not-an-option-downing-street-10564973

St-Malo with Brittany Ferries

o'night outbound is fine, but a bit of a bore coming home as there's only a daytime sailing
with thought, perhaps we should have found out who does o'night home

btw, no problems either with clearing immigration in Portsmouth
apparently it was taking about 1.5 hours a couple of weeks back

Manuel,

I thought you might have chosen that route.

Thinking of my route if I decide to go down south later this year.

St Malo is a beautiful City and the coastline around it is very attractive.

You wouldn't want to go the Calais route would you Fred ,you might get mugged by a group of the lovely people you so want to come to the UK .

Well, it's kicking off big time around Calais, the tractors are on manouvers cos the frogs have had enough of the bullshit from politicians.

They want the camps cleared and the invaders gone.

I don't think the pols will be able to fob this off much longer.


http://news.sky.com/story/travellers-face-disruption-in-calais-migrant-road-block-protest-10565664

Do what i say not what i do comes to mind here jimmy .

re Vaz

a sting?
maybe so, He has created a lot of enemies over the years, on what it seems his business with the wife are not all too good for the country ( It was shown that the Hindujas had paid Fernandes Vaz – the legal firm run by the MP’s wife – for work on visas.)

- 2000 Questions raised over conduct
- 2002 Parliamentary suspension
- 2009 Expenses scandal
- 2010 Drugs crusader

wrong partner on sex?
who cares it seems everyone at Westminster knew him as 'Teflon MP' "Vazeline"
so one wonders why?

waiting for tomorrow clarification

St-Malo
The old city - which we didn't have time to visit - was completely flattened and now rebuilt
However, if you are there on a Saturday night and like jazz and blues, then a visit to The Velvet (St-Servan) is a must
It is then frequented by a bunch of highly talented local musicians


Quimperle
Now that really is a pretty town/city to visit

Wrong site C, I think you need Trip Advisor. I believe you get a nice shiny badge over there. :). The Tour, Vuelta and Giro showcase some nice places to visit.

Well well no points but what then, a lot of NO but so far T. May has no answer for many things ...........

UK's May: wants gov't control on migration, points system open to abuse

British Prime Minister Theresa May said she wants a new system to give the government control over who is able to enter the country after it leaves the European Union, rather than a points-based system that selects candidates based on criteria.

"What the British people voted for on the 23rd of June was to bring some control into the movement of people from the European Union to the UK," she told reporters on Monday after a two-day summit of leaders from G20 nations in China. "A points-based system does not give you that control."

May recalled how staff at Heathrow airport had told her that migrants were able to abuse student visa rules when they applied to come to Britain.

"But because they met the criteria they were automatically let in. That's the problem with a points-based system. I want a system where the government is able to decide who comes into the country. I think that's what the British people want."

somewhere along the line, TM also said that we need to be much more thorough in rooting out and booting out those who have outstayed their visas or should not have been here in the first place

there is also the question of what relatives (if any) can be allowed to attach themselves to someone coming on a legit work visa
there is certainly an argument for saying "none" unless or until that (limited) work visa becomes an open visa to remain

T.May was in charge of the home office for a number of years, so while she
was there she should've have been looking at ways to bring down immigration,
not that she could do much about the free movement between EU countries while
being shackled to Brussels, but she also failed miserably with immigration from
the rest of the world.

Before the referendum there was talk of what kind of Brexit would it be, ie the
Swiss model or the Norway one, the Australian points based system was also
a suggested model too in reducing immigration, No one believed that the UK
was/is big enough to construct their own model, just because different systems
was mentioned it didn't mean we had to stick rigidly to any of them, but to work
them into our own plan and system.

But the first thing is to leave the EU, get back control of our borders then start
to get a workable plan in place and a determination to deport anyone who shouldn't
be here, and stopping the constant legal challenges with human rights ploys etc,that
is allowed to drag on and on by individuals who clearly have no right to be here.

'No job? You can't move to Britain.'

May's Blueprint to curb EU migrants...

Employment agencies from the UK have being advertising in eu countries
for over 10 years for eu nationals to work in the UK.

So this 'blueprint' isn't worth the (blue)paper its written on...

if eu citizens had a statutory right to move and work in uk (until brexit), then of course employment agencies would look in that area for suitable candidates

or have i totally missed the point you were making?

This is an attempt by May to try and deceive people into the belief that she's
trying to control immigration post Brexit, and by saying, 'No job, You can't
move to Britain'...But these agencies just carry on advertising jobs abroad,
even when we LEAVE and recruiting foreign workers, thus they can still carry
on coming because the jobs will still be being advertised, and it fulfills the caveat
of having to have a job before traveling to the UK..

I said before the referendum and I will repeat now. I have no issue with people working here legally and contributing to the economy. Much of the care for the elderly rely upon EU workers who work long hours for minimum pay. In any case, any comments made before Brexit shouldn't be taken in isolation.

It should also include having accomodation arranged that isn't needed by
the indigenous population, or the 20000 Syrians thats due to arrive over
the next few years, not to mention the multitudes of other 'refugees'...

GB - we haven't left EU yet so of course agencies are still perfectly within their rights to recruit and ditto the employers

as for your last bit, that is pure surmise ...... and if there are job vacancies that cannot be (readily) fulfilled from the domestic market, then for sure it will be permissible to bring in outsiders
of course, if it's just seasonal work, then it may well be that the work permits have a very limited lifespan ..... but that is my own speculation