Yes we are going to take full control of our borders and immigration. We shall decide who and how many come in, not the EU. If we negotiate some limited period of free movement after we have fully left, so be it. Although I should think totally unconditional free movement is highly unlikely.

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. [Orwell]

May will negotiate a deal that she feels is in the best interests of the UK. The EU will try to negotiate a deal that is in the best interests of the Germany and France.

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. [Orwell]

Of course - fine.

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. [Orwell]

Seconded.

Buy Litecoin.

Thirded (speaking as someone that has already gone through said process because the skills I possess make me a benefit to my would-be host country)

There are only two positions on Brexit- bleeding heart liberal elite remoaners or frothing swivel eyed Brexiteers. If you aren't one you must, logically, be the other

You'll be second choice behind anyone else in the EU 27 with the same skills and then only 2nd choice that includes the pool of similar skilled people worldwide. The UK will become just one country out of many where an EU company can find a resource if it can't find one in its own market of 500 million people.

Edited by europalace (06 Apr 2017 6.30am)

By that logic the London economy is failing because some towns in the north-east and north-west are in the doldrums.

Each member country has its own specific economy which is affected by, but not entirely dependent on, the EU.

Hence, the variations in housing markets/policy as you go from place to place across the water and how it becomes apparent that our way of doing things here on that score unfairly punishes so many of our own citizens and has very, very little to do with the EU.

Put it this way, if Spain struck oil tomorrow with a massive find and the wealth was used wisely do you think it would make them better off as one country? Of course it would. Their choice and not the EUs.

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Edited for Accuracy. May is no more 'beholden' to the best interests of the UK (whatever that means) than Blair or Brown or Cameron were.

Maybe even less so, because she has never had to face the impact of a general election as prime minister. Fortunately for the UK, it has to be agreed at least by parliament. Sadly that won't be a free vote.

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Which you people is that, I voted to leave the EU. Even if it decides its open doors, do you really think the Conservative government would lose that election and to whom? UKIP, had arguably their best leader, at the height of their influence based on a EU referendum and won one seat, despite picking up 18% of the vote.

The liberal democrats picked up 8 seats with less than half of that.

That's our democracy.

Plus the Conservatives are in a position where they can have a sacrificial prime minister (someone who never would have been leader but for a series of events) that they could use to make unpopular decisions, and change in a leadership challenge to win back sufficient votes to win the next election.

The truth is, provided the government can get the deal through parliament, its pretty much able to do what it likes.

The only party in the UK with sufficient positional power to defeat the Conservatives are, and always have been the Labour party. They cannot win without Scotland and they probably can't win with Corbyn.

UKIP without Farage at their helm won't improve on their position.

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