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WATCH: Economist issues warning about proposed youth mobility scheme
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May 18, 2025
A senior economist has warned that the proposed youth mobility scheme between the UK and EU could be "terrifying" and potentially open the floodgates to migrants from across Europe.This comes as the Government is facing mounting backlash over its proposed youth mobility scheme with the European Union, amid fears that it represents a major U-turn on immigration and a betrayal of Brexit principles.READ THE FULL STORY HERE
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Thank you
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So, should we think about the young people first? Is it pretty clear that young people are going to get this access
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to the United Kingdom for three years? Young people being defined as 18 to 30, I believe
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Well, actually, I saw something in the paper today saying it's 18 to 40
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Wow. Which is good for people who are not in that bracket. We can continue to pretend we're not very old
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But I think young people should stop at 25, really. Yeah, yeah
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Anyhow. So that would be quite a broad swathe of people. Well, it's also, it depends on if there's caps on it
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which is one of the issues many people are worried about because obviously there are 27 EU countries
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and if they all have a cap for 25,000 or 30,000, that could mean a lot of people
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Also, there's talk that they'll be able to come in and go to our universities and pay the same fees as UK students which is terrifying really Terrifying because of the loss of income to our universities do you mean Well A the loss of income to our universities but also the fact that
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there aren't any equivalent universities in the EU. You know, if you look at the list of the top 10 or top 100 universities
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you know, they're mainly in the US or the UK, even Singapore
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some other places around the world. And so... One thing in which we continue to excel
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Yes. So though this youth mobility is each way, there will be a lot more EU students coming to the UK
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than there will be UK students going to the EU. And by the way, whoever these people are
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and however virtuous they are, even if they're only coming temporarily and all those things
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they've got to be accommodated somewhere. And all people who come into this country
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put extra pressure on accommodation. And accommodation is not easy to come by So I think one can see why Red Wall Labour and Peace must be a bit alarmed Also I rather surprised I mentioned this in the last discussion but you know the Prime Minister having made a big thing last week of having a new immigration policy he doesn even get to the
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Monday of the following week before he's announced a huge exception to this, with many thousands of
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young people coming in to, as I say, to occupy houses and flats and accommodations under great
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strain. I have a feeling he's trying to appease both sides of the fence, if you like. So he says
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something for his red wall voters, not that he's got many these days, but the people in the red
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wall get sort of the Monday report and the people who want to rejoin metropolitan London elite
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they get the Friday report. You know, it's kind of one or the other. It's the same with he's signing
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trade deals with the US and India on Monday, and then he's talking about resetting the EU
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on Friday. You know he trying to appease everyone and it going to I think go horribly wrong for him Because one of the things that people rather tend to forget while they denouncing Donald Trump for his tariffs is that the European Union exists behind a tariff war Oh massive tariff war
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I did an ysis of this when they put up the 10% tariffs
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not the 25% ones, on our agricultural tariffs, and ours are very similar to the EU's
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Ours are now in pounds and we've rounded the percentages down. but in general if they're 12.6% we're 12
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and ours is in pounds, theirs is in euros. But we're still more expensive than US tariffs on food
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and the US did have tariffs on food. They were not tariff-free as they are with a whole lot
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of other industrial goods. So they did have tariffs on a lot of food
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Lamb, interestingly enough, was zero tariffed but we never thought about exporting lamb there
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which was really silly because now it's got 10% on it. But things like beef or whatever, they're a fraction of the UK tariffs
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