Starmer considers EU visa deal for under-30s | British ministers looking at agreement to allow 18 to 30-year-olds in the UK and EU to live, work and study in each other’s countries
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/02/02/keir-starmer-opens-door-eu-youth-visa-scheme/
by 1DarkStarryNight
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Going to suck when you turn 30 and have to face the bad times.
Also low key envious now I’m past the line.
That’s discriminatory. Just rejoin the EU and stop fucking around Starmer.
First but of good news I’ve seen in a while, and then I remembered I’m over 30 🤣
Well fuck us 34 year olds I guess. I hate this fucking country with a vengeance
All my opportunities have been stripped one at a time. Being a millennial in the UK is truly depressing
If he agrees to this FOM-lite, all he will do is further push people to reform, but hey, maybe he prefers opposition to actually governing the country.
Well that’s 1-2 million more people in the UK than the other way. If you think there’s no jobs in the U.K for youth, wait till you see continental Europe.
More competition for graduate jobs is just what we need. Though I suspect most graduates would be happy with this idea like turkeys voting for Christmas.
Good for the well off families who can afford to send their kid on a working holiday in Europe I guess.
As a 33 year old it really fucking sucks to have opportunities snatched away from me as Brexit happened and then have them replaced by opportunities that now exclude me as I’ve aged. Why are these schemes so hostile to anyone over 30? I still have plenty to offer and would like the freedom back that I used to have. I fucking loathe Brexit and the idiots who supported it so much.
Massive concession that provides almost no benefit to the UK, but opens the door to over 3 million job seekers from the continent.
What’ll happen is, the brightest will go to Europe and the UK will get the dregs of the recent imports they realise they don’t want all applying for benefits then bringing their extended families across.
Just like any other bright spark plan Labour have had there isn’t any upside
Fucking pissed that I’m too old to benefit from this after my right to have this was stripped away because of the stupidity of others.
Still this is a great first step to repairing our relationship with Europe and hopefully this puts us back on the path of rejoining. Chuffed for the young people that will benefit from this.
Oh, so just fuck Millenials then aye?
Literally the only ones getting uber fucked consistently by boomers.
2008 Credit Crash. Our Parents scream at us to stop buying starbucks to afford a house (But not to much so as to negatively affect the economy). We don’t work hard enpough. We’re not productive enough. 2020 Covid Crash, inflation, lack of consumer spending ability.
So all the economic migrants into Italy, Greece etc will have an easy route to the UK?
Are we sure Starmer is not getting a bung from Farage?
The UK economy could be worst in the the whole of Europe, with the lowest growth, living standards , productivity, public services, trade with partners, the lot. And Labour will still insist Brexit was a success., it just needs a small tweak
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Does anyone remember when being a member of the EU allowed ‘**anyone of any age’** in the UK and EU to live, work and study in each other’s countries? I do. It was of enormous benefit both economically and socially.
Instead of having “free movement for young people”, should we be having ”free movement for everyone”? You bet we should. The problem being that there are politicians and commentators that still back the ideology that isolation of an entire nation’s population from interacting with the rest of the World is a bad thing and detrimental to the UK’s economy and social stability. Let’s all stop listening to those stupendously idiotic arse-holes and think of our own prosperity, freedoms, rights and opportunities for once. We all know who they are, don’t we? Stop listening to, and even remotely believing what they say because they are wrong and insidiously evil in their intentions.
Look at the state of the country. It’s an absolute disaster, isn’t it? 14 years of austerity imposed by a Tory Government decimated huge parts of public services. Brexit, again a Tory Government initiative that was backed by certain right wing politicians and newspapers, has decimated trade, prosperity and international relations Worldwide. All the time this was going on, the already wealthy became wealthier, while the rest of us got a damn site poorer. Criminal, isn’t it? yet many actually voted in favour of it.
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Why just for under 30s, needs to be applicable to everyone, why should only under 30s get to leave
Just constantly coming up with proposals to keep the flow of unskilled people into the country.
This country is addicted to foreign low skilled workers.
How about raise that age? I’m already past that age and that’s literally the one thing I want back.
Why not bring it back for all?
I’ve had rights I had for my whole life stripped from me by the government, and opportunities and jobs taken away because of this. Especially being self employed it’s extremely difficult getting any form of visa that would allow me unlimited time in the EU like before.
Brexit kicked in when I was about to hit 30. Now 5 years later, along with covid, I’ve lost so many opportunities I could have had over the dumbest thing a country has sine to itself.
Can’t they just admit Brexit was a massive mistake?
We are left alone, weakened, and now it’s clear America can’t be relied on either.
So you can come here on a visa, have a child born here, apply for indefinite leave.
No thanks. We don’t need more loopholes and work arounds.
Just an Australian style stance please.
I’m in my 30’s and I feel like I’ve had so much stolen from me. For what?
It’s like a cruel joke. My wife is 31 this year. We need to reapply for spouse visa next year and we do not have the money or meet the requirements because we already spent thousands on the first visa.
I like this but only under 30s stings. I was 21 when the vote happened but I’ll be 30 before anything like this is finalised.
As much as I appreciate an opportunity for people to gain this back, I’m furious at this whole stupid situation. I’m 35, I voted remain and I’m left out of this suggestion. Fine, whatever I wouldn’t want it taken away just because I don’t get in on the agreement, but why on earth is this bull still sticking.
People were straight up LIED to about brexit. They were promised a better NHS and look at the state of it. We should be prosecuting people for this scandal, not limping along muttering about democracy and what the people supposedly wanted. Brexit voters didn’t want the shit situation we’re in but they believed in their government. I’m not going to argue about whether they should have bought into it or not, the lies that were told should never have been allowed to circulate without consequence.
This just feels like a kick in the teeth. We have lost so much, this is a bandage on a gushing wound.
Other than the bit where I’m much too old to benefit, what’s the downside?
If only we had something similar in the past that was not age restricted. Oh wait …
This is going to be so one sided. Youth unemployment across Europe is brutal, especially in the southern countries. They’ll all flock here and very few will leave the UK from our side.
This will kill the graduate market for UK graduates.
I actually think the Labour Government is on a self sabotage ritual because they cannot be this stupid.
I’m older but I voted to remain. I sadly met a number of people who voted to leave and who had property in Europe. Pulling the drawbridge up after themselves.
Being 30 in this country is just depressing. I can’t wait to buy a house this year in a mediocre area and have most of my net income spent on doing so. Exciting.
You have right wing press saying it’s being considered, left wing saying it’s not and the BBC saying it’s not. So what bullshit is this?
It should be for below 60. We didn’t vote or this Brexit crap.
Glad they’re bringing it back, but it sucks for the people of the age who were just about old enough for the programs when they shut this down and five years later are too old for it.
more proof that being a millennial was an absolutely shit hand
This is such an obvious win. The right wing rags are going scream betrayal regardless so you may as well do good policy
I think they should do it based off what your Brexit vote was. Made your bed, lie in it
Voted for Brexit? No visa
Too young to vote for Brexit? Visa
Voted against Brexit? Visa
I like this as it’s a step forwards, and it means if you’re fortunate enough to find a job in Europe in your early 20’s you have time to apply to stay and build a career.
But “freedom of movement for youths/students” was also one of the key Remain arguments towards the end of the referendum campaign, and the moment when I realised Remain could lose.
Not many people in their teens and 20s know what they want to do in life, let alone have the knowledge, money and confidence to move to Europe. It’s always felt like largely a middle class London thing to focus on.
Hopefully this opens the door to more co-operation, but I will be annoyed if they spend political capital on this and then say “there, we’re closer to Europe; moving on…”
I guess my British wife and I will never be allowed back in the UK then, thanks, Starmer (and Brexit wankers)!
For a bit of context, I grew up in the UK for over 30 years, and my wife and I decided to move to Berlin in 2013, to only be blocked from ever returning due to Brexit, since I’m a German citizen.
And before I hear the knuckle draggers start with going on a spousal Visa, my wife’s job would never pay over the minimum limit, and I do not have enough money to afford the ludicrous GBP 5K for a Visa application every three years, additionally to the NHS top-up fees (even though I’ve paid years of National Insurance already)!
Sweet, love that Brexit was voted for when I was 21, and now I’m 30. I still feel that we who voted Remain should’ve been given an option to retain some sort of citizenship with the EU, rather than have it completely stripped from us, but that was never going to be a problem for the likes of Farage and Johnson who have the ties and / or the money to live and work wherever they damn please.
I do hope that something can be arranged for those younger than me though. I have two younger siblings, one of whom is still in secondary school, and any opportunity they have to broaden their horizons in a world where many countries are trying to shrink them, is a good opportunity.
Is the plan to get a generation of young Britons used to this so that when they hit 30 they are very pissed off and take us back into the EU to retain their rights?
If so I like it.
In half a decade we’ll reverse engineer into being bacl in the eu in all but name and maybe the country can finally have some good again.
We could also just rejoin the EU likr a majority of Brits want; far more in fact than voted Leave in 2016.
Brexit vote when I was 20.
Brexit happened when I was 24.
Now they’re teasing me with an EU visa just as I turn 29.
I’d like to personally thank my elder generations for completely sacrificing my twenties. Throw in an imploded early career and 2 years with minimal social contact, thanks to lockdowns and COVID, and I can categorically say that I don’t have any resentment whatsoever. /s
please just under 70 then increase it by one every year
35 here. My arsehole is getting really sore at this point.
As a somebody who voted remain in my 20s and is now in my 30s there is no bitterness at all!
Anyway, of keir really was anything other than a tory plant he could just rejoin.the single market.
100% of euro sceptic votes go to conservative or reform, hes jever wonning them. All his remain voters are leaving for greens and libdems.
Hes trying to lose on purpose it so clear.
Remain is 3 way split, labour, green, lib dem,
Leave is 2 way, conservative, reform. FPTP is awful.
Labour need to be pro eu and regaon what they have lost to the green and LD
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