EU freedom of movement isn't unconditional. You can only move to a different EU country if you have a job or can support yourself.
You have three months to make it work, and then if you can't make it work, you can be asked to leave.
The UK deliberately opted out of this requirement. Until recently, the UK was one of the most generous and open states for EU immigration.
The UK also made the most noise about allowing the former Soviet Bloc countries to join the EU - coincidentally, the countries which have sourced a lot of supposedly objectionable immigration.
This is because the UK likes to play a game. First it imports cheap foreign labour to keep wages down. Then the same political group which quietly promotes this makes a big show of saying "Oh no! Look at all the immigrants! How terrible! We should do something!" in public.
And this reliably wins elections. It's been winning them for well over a century now.
You can be absolutely sure that if Brexit happens this game will be played again - most likely with cheap labour from the former commonwealth countries.
EU freedom of movement isn't unconditional. You can only move to a different EU country if you have a job or can support yourself.
You have three months to make it work, and then if you can't make it work, you can be asked to leave.
The UK deliberately opted out of this requirement. Until recently, the UK was one of the most generous and open states for EU immigration.
The UK also made the most noise about allowing the former Soviet Bloc countries to join the EU - coincidentally, the countries which have sourced a lot of supposedly objectionable immigration.
This is because the UK likes to play a game. First it imports cheap foreign labour to keep wages down. Then the same political group which quietly promotes this makes a big show of saying "Oh no! Look at all the immigrants! How terrible! We should do something!" in public.
And this reliably wins elections. It's been winning them for well over a century now.
You can be absolutely sure that if Brexit happens this game will be played again - most likely with cheap labour from the former commonwealth countries.