On secure borders

Yesterday, our racist Home Secretary, and yes I know she is a second generation immigrant herself, said that being in the EU was incompatible with being in the EU.

This is a lie.

I have travelled for nine years back and forwards to Denmark, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, Norway as well as further afield to the US and China, and I can tell you our borders are secure. My passport is checked every time I leave and every time I return.

As are everyone's passports and travel documents.

The EU rules allow for EU citizens the right to travel, live and work in each other's countries, but if a citizen has not found work in the first three months they can be deported. This would require EU citizens coming into the UK to have been recorded and tracked. This would cost money. And the UK Government decided, presumably on a cost/risk basis, that there was no point as the issue was so small.

But then Brexiteers used this domestic policy decision to lay the blame with the EU, not the UK Government. And not for the first time.

EU citizens living and working in the UK are a massive cost benefit to the country and exchequer, and on top of which EU citizens would in either the NHS or services doing the jobs we don't want to. They rent houses, buy food, travel, pay NI and taxes, thus supporting the local and national economies.

What is most troubling is that no one from the Labour Party will stand up for EU citizens and speak the truth, but happy enough to play the racist card when it comes to immigration, pandering to people's ill-foundered fears.

Without EU citizens living and working here, paying NI and taxes, renting houses, spending money in shops, who will take up the shortfall, and if no one will, where will the cuts be made?