BBC West Midlands report exposes UKIP threat to two million Britons

A brilliant report by BBC Midlands Today yesterday (15 December 2014) exposed the threat UKIP poses to the two million Britons who live and work elsewhere in Europe.

Focusing on two unemployed Britons who left the West Midlands to set up a business in Spain the report exposed the possible consequences of Britain leaving the European Union. This would plunge two million Britons into a legal wasteland.

UKIP policy used to be to withdraw from the Union and repatriate everyone who would no longer have a right to live here. This policy changed abruptly in November - see below. UKIP now say that everyone who was living and working in Britain could remain in the country following a withdrawal from the Union. However Britons would no longer have an automatic legal right to live and work elsewhere in the Union. Two million Britons would lose their current legal rights.

Even in the chaos and bad feeling resulting from a British withdrawal we expect that most European governments would continue to allow Britons to live and work in their country. However in the worst case scenario we could see two million Britons being repatriated to this country.

Links

Details of UKIP's abrupt policy change are reported here: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/ukips-mark-reckless-accuses-nigel-farage-of-policy-uturn-on-eu-migration-9877226.html

Calculations of the effect of the old UKIP policy on Rugby are shown here: http://rugbylibdems.org.uk/en/article/2014/926385/ukip-bluff-called-on-bilton-housing-claims