Euro crisis: UK plans to stop migration from greece & spain

[mitsuru]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18216538

Euro crisis: UK plans for rise in immigrants
The Home Office is drawing up contingency plans to cope with
a possible large increase in immigration from Greece if the euro
collapses.

Home Secretary Theresa May told the Daily Telegraph "work is
ongoing" to restrict European immigration in the event of a
financial collapse.

She said "trends" were being examined to see whether
immigration was rising from countries with stricken economies.

EU nationals are largely entitled to work anywhere in the single
market.

If the single currency breaks up, people looking for work abroad
may see Britain as an attractive alternative as it is a
non-eurozone country.

Asked whether emergency immigration controls were being
considered, Mrs May said: "It is right that we do some
contingency planning on this [and] that is work that is ongoing."

Should we pull up the drawbridge now and have done with it?

[owelly]

Pull it up now? About 20 years too late!

[fha772]

I agree with Owelly, it's too late, they've already taken control if the fish & chip industry!!!

[Renrut]

We could do an exchange of people with spain and greece, we'll take some of their people and they can have some of ours? 1 in 1 out?

[OilyFingers]

I agree with Owelly, it's too late, they've already taken control if the fish & chip industry!!!

At any given time there are 3 chippies round my way. Two of them change hands every 6 months while the other is run by a Portugese family. They don't change hands because they are so good.

Controlled imigration is a good thing. Without it we would have a massive shortage of Doctors, no sunday shopping, no late night shopping and no curry.

[ACE]

Where I work, less that 20% of the staff is English.
The language barrier can be a right pain in the tyłek!