Observations

Academic 'experts' once again proved catastrophically wrong

When the Government was commissioning reports from ivory tower academics to predict the number of migrants from EU accession countries who would take advantage of the UK’s open borders policy, did they ask if any of these boffins had actually visited any of these countries? We doubt it. We have read some of these reports and the naivete is astonishing.

Members of the Facts4EU.Org team had been to these countries, and knew that vast numbers would head for “England’s green and pleasant land”. Unemployment in these accession countries was generally high, wages were very low, and the healthcare systems were poor. This is to say nothing of the endemic corruption and crime present in some countries such as Romania and Bulgaria, who joined the EU in 2007.

It was blindingly obvious to any normal person that the government’s predictions were hopelessly wrong – and so it has proved.

Would other EU countries have been as generous as the UK?

British citizens living in France had a strict deadline by which they had to provide a great deal of information if they wanted French residency status before Brexit, then travel long distances to the nearest ‘Prefecture’.

Law-abiding British people who had never once had any dealings with the police in the UK were shocked to find they had to be fully finger-printed by the French in order to obtain a residency card – which would eventually arrive over six months later. In the meantime they were in limbo.

The official EU deadline of 31 December 2020 for the receipt of applications was imposed in France, but in the United Kingdom the Home Office continues to consider and approve applications almost a year and a half later.

Finally – and importantly

The 5.8 million immigrants from the EU are in the UK perfectly lawfully, as a result of the EU’s ‘Withdrawal Agreement’ signed by the UK Government. In our report above, Facts4EU.Org has merely summarised the situation using official information published by the Home Office.

Given that the UK’s population has risen by around 10% as a result of the EU’s ‘Freedom of Movement’ rules, it is only reasonable to ask whether the United Kingdom’s number of hospitals, schools, housing stock, welfare provisions, and all other state services have risen by a similar amount.

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