I remember once seeing a repeat of the tc show Yes minister, it may be almost 30 years old, but he political points they made then, are still just as pointed as now.
There was a debate on the show about the founding of the EU, how nobody in the UK wanted to join, but as the Opposition was against it, then they would have to be for it. There was a wonderful line by Sir Humphrey which went along the lines of (and i paraphrase a bit as i should be doing some proper work and not on here),
"Off course we don't want to be this close to them, off course we don't want ti to work, and thats why we must join, only from within can we bring about its downfall quicker than if we did nothing....."
The EU is expanding, countries who are at the economic top table are seeing more and more countries clamoring around the for an invite, countries who used to be at the bottom of the EU economy are now becoming cautious, they are seeing the benefits that used to get now being diverted into poorer countries.
I have nothing against these people, they are just trying to better themselves like everyone can, if you live in a country where the average wage for skilled position is <£10 a day and for the say job and skills you can earn £40, 000 -£50,0000 per year, then why would you want to stay? These figures are based on polish Doctors i heard on Radio 4 this morning.
The argument defending the open limit is that there are jobs that no-one in britain wants to do, but (again from Radio4 last week) we have student nurses and Phyios and other medical professionals graduationg from university and not able to find a job in this country, why are we still letting people in from Overseas to work these jobs when we have a vasly under employed skilled workforce.
Something like 98% of this years Physio graduates won't find jobs within their field in the next 12 months, 86% of nurses are in the same situation. Its just a little crazy that so much effort is spent on trying to help other EU member counties and future members whilst the labour force here at home is taking the brunt of it all.
/rant off