One of the many perverse outcomes of Brexit is that it may have simultaneously led to an increase in EU immigration but also a decrease in EU “hospitality workers”.
This sounds, at first, counter intuitive but increasingly looks likely to have happened.
This is how...
This sounds, at first, counter intuitive but increasingly looks likely to have happened.
This is how...
https://twitter.com/nicktolhurst/status/1399954391231238144
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The major impact Brexit had on EU citizens was to force upon them a choice:
Stay in UK to get settled status & avoid visa/border issues...or leave.
We now know that more EU citizens successfully applied for settled status than were thought to have been in UK in 2016..
But..
The major impact Brexit had on EU citizens was to force upon them a choice:
Stay in UK to get settled status & avoid visa/border issues...or leave.
We now know that more EU citizens successfully applied for settled status than were thought to have been in UK in 2016..
But..
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While the settled status issue may have increased “committed long term” stays...Brexit itself made seasonal work for young EUers not based all year round in the UK in the seasonally fluctuating hospitality industry more difficult.
While the settled status issue may have increased “committed long term” stays...Brexit itself made seasonal work for young EUers not based all year round in the UK in the seasonally fluctuating hospitality industry more difficult.
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Thus Brexit may have actually engineered a perverse outcome:
It encouraged more EUers to formalize a longterm commitment to UK while simultaneously reducing the highly efficient system of seasonal work done in UK often by young EUers “popping in” to the UK.
In other words..
Thus Brexit may have actually engineered a perverse outcome:
It encouraged more EUers to formalize a longterm commitment to UK while simultaneously reducing the highly efficient system of seasonal work done in UK often by young EUers “popping in” to the UK.
In other words..
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So Brexit may have thus not actually decreased longterm immigration to the UK...
...but it did damage the hospitality sector through closed borders to such an extent the govt may have to set up a whole new easy work visa system to allow more seasonal workers in.
So Brexit may have thus not actually decreased longterm immigration to the UK...
...but it did damage the hospitality sector through closed borders to such an extent the govt may have to set up a whole new easy work visa system to allow more seasonal workers in.
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