Sunak rejects offer of youth mobility scheme between EU and UK

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1. Interesting that Labour rejected it as well.

   Both main parties appear to hate young people and fetishise the old.

   I’ll be voting accordingly. 

2. >The prime minister declined the European Commission’s surprise for people aged between 18 and 30 on Friday, after Labour knocked back the suggestion on Thursday night

   Wonder why both parties rejected the idea?

3. Of course both parties oppose this, young people aren’t allowed anything nice in this country.

4. The EU wants the UK to: “The European Commission is proposing an EU-UK deal that would go further, lasting up to four years with no restrictions on time spent working, studying, training or volunteering.

   It also says EU applicants should not have to pay the annual UK charge towards the NHS, which ranges from £776 for students and under-18s to £1,035 for workers.

   And EU students should pay the same tuition fees as UK students, rather than the higher fees they have had to pay since Brexit, and have rights to reunite with family members, under the proposals”

   Quite laughable EU wants to dictate terms and think they can bully the UK to agree. Great UK doesn’t want part of this scheme

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6. I see people saying they won’t vote labor because it doesn’t have their ideals in mind. I get it…but…

   Get rid of the Tories with Labor first. Then start focusing on how shit Labor is. Vote for another party then, or vote in better representatives for the Labor party.

   Seems absolutely ludicrous to be like “Oh…well. Tories are bad yeah. But Labor also equally bad!”

   Hello? Brexit?

7. I thought this sort of cherry picking was impossible?

8. He should be sending his daughters to the nice safe country of Rwanda. 

9. Gotta make sure that if we’re all doomed to become a failed state, then we’ll be doomed TOGETHER!

10. At this point if you are voting for Labour and expecting anything different from what we have already.. you’re an idiot. Do us all a favour and vote for a third party. Something might actually change in our life time. Even the 15 year old phoning into LBC was able to see that, why can’t you?

11. I’m a right centre voter and the freedom for the young to move around EU would be great for young people.

12. Nice trap you weasel.

    Let’s see what Labour will do once in power.

13. I think people are potentially not appreciating the reason why Labout had to follow suit. In this deeply flawed system that we have what Labour need to do at this point is keep an even keel. It’s just strategy. If they manage to follow through and win the election then there is no reason why a similar and considered, enabling proposition can’t be made within the year. But they need to win.

    And the reasons why the Conservatives rejected it include a) it would obliterate the mythology of being ‘Independent’ from Europe and b) they wouldn’t be able to factor the professional drought.

    As well as being pig headed.

    Right now I personally would like to see a government overseen by a legal professional with his heart on fire and brain on Ice.

14. We are on the way to being an Islamic republic there is no stopping the invasion from the East.

15. It would be very one sided, there’d be next to zero Brits going to most European countries and a few going to France, Spain, Germany, Italy etc. there’d be a lot of people coming to the UK. Just like with free movement.

16. I mean yeah. Commission likely wanted to do this for internal politics. To solidify member states agreement in advance of eurosceptic parties potential big wins later this year in elections. As eurosceptics more likely to strike bilateral agreements with Uk.

17. What I find interesting in all of this is that the reason this EU proposition came up in he first place was due to the current government apparently approaching single states about youth mobility schemes – so in theory does that mean the conservative government has been trying to get their own scheme going with other EU countries?

18. Wankers.

    As a young person, I hope count bin face runs for generals

19. Mr Sunak and family, can holiday or work anywhere in the world, no need for anything free or freedom.

20. Honestly all I can do at this point is vote lib dem and hope that they end up in a coalition that will result in finally getting proportional representation.

21. Bet he would allow it if it were between India and UK 🙄