“Non mi sembra giusto”: i giovani britannici lamentano di aver perso il diritto di lavorare nell’UE dopo la Brexit
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/07/does-not-feel-fair-young-britons-struggle-with-losing-right-to-work-in-eu-since-brexit
di ethereal3xp
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Its not. But this is what happens when you have a leave campaign run on lies, and people who happily believe what they’re told without questioning it
> Once seen as a rite of passage
Get the impression I grew up in a completely different world to the average Guardian reader
I know people who wanted to / romanticised about living in Australia, Canada, US.
Never met a Brit who lamented losing rights to work in Europe
In Europe? Some guardian love letter this.
Canada / US / AUS – sure that would make sense, in fact it’s better than ever for young people for Aus and Canada than 10 years ago, mobility visas and second year stays are much easier.
No one has lost the ability to live and work in the EU. The rules have changed and it may be a bit harder to achieve, but to say you can no longer do it is utter rubbish.
You can still get a job in the EU, if you apply to a role where they give you a visa. Do people really think it’s **impossible** for Australians, Americans, Japanese, Canadians etc to work in the EU 😛
>Working in the rest of Europe was seen by some as a rite of passage
Yeah, privileged kids who can afford to fuck off abroad for a gap year might have done so, but normal people never even considered it a possibility.
They quote that in 2011 400000 Britons were in the EU for over a year, but they quote figures for 15-49 year olds. Probably not all taking very important gap years then.
What this amounts to is fudging stats to act like hundreds of thousands of people are being deprived of some right they give a shit about. The population of the UK according to the 2012 census was 56.1m meaning this 400000 figure is a fraction of the overall population even doing this.
So are they really stating we should be upset about losing a right that less than 1% of the population was even utilising to any great extent? There’s plenty of things wrong with how Brexit was sold to people, but arguing from this point is a terrible idea, because it just smacks of intense privilege to argue that everyone should think the way they do because of a right the overwhelming majority of the country wasn’t using and didn’t care about.
They say this, but out of my friend group, I’m the only one that had the drive to actually go ahead and work overseas for a year 10 years back. And I’m in my mid 30s now, so my friend group absolutely had the opportunity to do this and didn’t.
Also, they can still work abroad. When I did it, it wasnt to an EU country. You can sit and complain about it to spite leave voters who don’t even know you exist, or get off your ass and make it work or find another destination. Â
*edit* Typical downvotes. I’m not saying it doesn’t suck. My point is, are you going to do something to make it work regardless, or just using this as an excuse to have a moan? If you’re under 35 you have no excuse to not move abroad if you’re dead set on it.Â
Canada for work/ski holidays. There are so many schemes for young people to get out and about and involved with seasonal work. They just got to want to it but sadly it isn’t everyone’s interest.
An article about over 35’s having fewer opportunities might have some truth.
Left wing propaganda appealing to middle class labour voters.
Pre Brexit there were many more EU workers and benefit claimants moving here than UK people moving to EU.
The huge influx of EU workers caused depression of salaries at the bottom end of the employment market. This effect continues to this day as many of these people stayed.
Absolutely the last thing working class people need now is another huge influx of EU labour competing for their jobs.
Holy sheet… My old snowboard holidays 20years ago were expensive.. hense why I did them living at home and working full time. Sod trying to afford them now!! The ski passes and rentals add hundreds.