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I believe if the UK could have chosen to control immigration from A8 countries, Brexit would have never happened.

I don't think it would have mattered if the UK actually did restrict immigration or not, it's more about not having the power to choose to restrict it.

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Maybe, and not necessarily a direct control

For example, not giving unemployment benefits for those that just had arrived (though it seems this applies to all kinds of immigration)

> unemployment benefits for those that just had arrived

Is/was that really the case in the UK? From day one? I hop on a plane today, take a taxi from the airport to the unemployment office, get in line, and I'll have unemployment benefits paid to me starting in February?

You don't have to hate brown people (as you said up there) to understand that a system that gives benefits to people who have never contributed to it is not sustainable in the long term. And citizens from A8 countries are barely brown, anyway. ;P

I believe political correctness triggered Brexit, and will eventually kill the EU (not only because of immigration, though)

> You don't have to hate brown people to understand that a system that gives benefits to people who have never contributed to it is not sustainable in the long term

Of course

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