Freedom Of Movement In Exchange For Access To Single Market, Norway Style?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-latest-single-market-access-freedom-of-movement-eu-research-a7840331.html

/// Research by King's College London, Rand Europe and Cambridge University found that people place more value on trade deals with the EU and foreign countries than on curbing free movement of labour. ///

I always thought that the main reason people voted out was because they wanted to see a curb on the free movement of people, when did this change?

[dannyk13]

It hasn't changed.

[anotheoldgit]

dannyk13

According to these it has, King's College London, Rand Europe and Cambridge University.

[dannyk13]

Official policy has't changed.

[ToraToraTora]

we don't have free movement now, we ain't in shengen are we?

[mikey4444]

TTT....depends how you define "free movement"

At present, us Brits have free movement throughout the EU. Most EU citizens also have free movement to come to Britain, if they want to.

What in effect happens in Norway is that the country has certain rights, as any other EU nation. It has to pay for those rights, but has no method of discussion or debate on how the EU is run and administered.

Norway is a very small but very wealthy country, and can't really be easily compared to Britain.

[Garaman]

I always thought sovereignty was the main reason people voted out.

[mikey4444]

Garaman....as far as I am concerned, it was the issue of "foreign workers taking our jobs"

The jobs that our lazy, feckless dole-bludgers can't or won't take.

[ladybirder]

It was for me Garaman.

[KARL]

Norway has around 50% more land area than the UK, its population is slightly less than that of Scotland and about 1.5 times that of Wales. Mikey is correct that it cannot be compared with the UK on many levels such as it is managerially/organisationally far more advanced than the UK plus its economy is much better off. As already pointed out, the free movement referred to is the freedom to live and seek work anywhere within the EU, not the freedom to enter the EU from other countries to live and take up work. In the latter case countries within the EU, the UK included, have all had uninterrupted control over official acceptance/rejection of immigration from outside the EU. It is entirely possible (likely ?) that many voters never fully understood the distinction, and maybe they still don't.

[jourdain2]

As far as I am concerned, I voted for freedom and the right to make our own laws (whatever they may be).

[Togo]

//In the latter case countries within the EU, the UK included, have all had uninterrupted control over official acceptance/rejection of immigration from outside the EU. It is entirely possible (likely ?) that many voters never fully understood the distinction, and maybe they still don't.//

Oh yes we did..... but when the EU lets them in by the 100s of thousands ( with a fast track and free passage to the UK) we said no way Jose, or nien Murky Hell, or non Macron. You sort your own suicide note out, we will take a breath and do what is right. The pyramid scheme has no foundation to survive this invasion, especially without our £billions of parachute bail out dosh. Let em whistle.