Post-Brexit immigration: mission accomplished?
That&#x27;s by design, border control was a selling point of Brexit, as brexiters saw only the bad side of immigration. Which to be fair, is no seamless nor without challenges or cost.<p>I suppose the rational is:<p>• Diminish the friction that multi-culturalism and diversity integration can bring.<p>• Free jobs for the local population.<p>• Having to share less of lands, resources, and infrastructures.<p>And I see the point, but it also fails to take in consideration that:<p>• The UK needs the import&#x2F;export flow it was used to pre-brexit to keep their current life style. They don&#x27;t produce much good internally, and they need to export their service. Brexit added huge barriers to that, not just for people.<p>• The current British population doesn&#x27;t seem very motivated to take back the jobs they delegated to immigration.<p>• Even if it were, it can&#x27;t be instant, since that requires training an entire workforce and sometimes even require permits or certification. Trucks, bus and cabs come to mind. And the inertia will do some damage. The supply chain is already seen glitches, although not as much as I would have expected. They are surprisingly pretty resilient.<p>• The Northern Ireland situation is a ticking bomb. Yeah, immigrates are not just brown people. People have a short memory though, so I suppose IRA stands for nothing nowadays. They may get a nasty reminder that ignored history is doomed to be repeated.<p>• Scotland nationalism has been exacerbated since they were pretty anti-brexit. Also, as an immigrant, scots were pretty welcoming, they need people there.<p>• Big players that needed to stay in Europe are sometimes moving to France or Ireland. So the promised jobs have to take that in consideration.<p>• The UK has an aging population, with a 0.53% growth rate, and that was when compensated by immigration.<p>• The UK education system sucks. People think Oxford and Cambridge, but the reality is more Leeds Metropolitan. I&#x27;ve studied there, and it&#x27;s not going to be easy to find qualified workers only in the island.<p>• The UK managed to negotiate a very privileged deal inside the UE. It had most of the advantages, and way less of the down sides that other members. This deal is dead now, they have the worst of all worlds. So even if they get some benefits, the cost may be huge.<p>• France and the UK never really liked each other. The UE brings peace. But now, all bets are off. Also, no more bonding program such as Erasmus to bring future generation together. And good luck to make you BSC valued outside of the UK. And I guarantee the already little patience we had for the retired brits in the South of France that never try to learn proper France will not hold forever now that we are not bros.<p>• All that in the middle of covid. Not their fault, but damn, that&#x27;s a terrible timing.