This week there has been a conference in Ireland to look at cross border issues that are inveitably going to arise after brexit (HERE). Enda Kenny warned that the negotiation could get vicious but I was interested in one contribution, presumably from a businessman, about the movement of labour.
If the UK government introduces a points style system for allowing workers in this would be intended to allow highly skilled individuals in but not labourers or those with no skills. But if there is no hard border between north and south in Ireland controlling this would be impossible. And how then would the EU look at this. They would surely not be happy to see a rule applying to all other EU citizens being ignored for anyone coming from the republic. This would be discrimination writ large and anathema to the EU.
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