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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mjh73" data-source="post: 3557533" data-attributes="member: 82187">The UK had the ability to apply much stronger restrictions on the EU accession states under EXISTING EU agreements and chose not to (unlike many other EU members).This was either due to incompetence or, more likely, a deliberate policy that enabled the country to gain economic benefit from an influx of cheap labour. If the majority of English voters were not so bloody dumb to have been misled by politicians and the press to believe that immigration was a problem caused by the EU we wouldn't have needed a referendum in the first place.</blockquote>