I believe its what we will be giving our French friends to purchase pokey things that they then stick in refugee's dinghy's. Its the sort of move that in 50 years time when the kids and grand kids of those we apparently happily chose not to help have influence over all the countries we wish to be friends with and trade with. Lets' hope our grands kids can dine out on everyone else's view of charity beginning at home, because they will have to.
Sometimes I think charging $5000 for a UK Visa might be easier. Cut out the criminals by taking the money out of the system and using it to pay for initial accommodation and immigration costs. If you fail the assessment you don't have to bother travelling . If you pass, you probably are better qualified than most Brits.. Plus we have then collected the biometrics to spot failures if they do turn up at Dover.
It's called a golden visa in certain parts of Europe and the only the first digit starts with a 5, you are missing a few zeros, Mike.
And yet there’s no money to give nurses and teachers a cost of living pay rise. Still, at least Brexit enabled us to take back control of our borders. That was right, wasn’t it?