Exactly. It was always intended to disadvantage citizens of third party countries.
The fuckwits with scrambled brains, yet still allowed to vote, made our country a third party one.
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I thought you said the intention was to take a cut of the large economy next door.. because of the words you used when you said that. Maybe they were originally going after Moldova but pivoted?
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We do allow EU folks to use e gates at our airports same as us.
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It's to leverage disadvantage against any third country. You mentioned the large economy next door, so I contextualised the argument to refer to your specific point of reference. Which I thought would help, as you only seemed to be viewing it from the perspective of convenience to UK travellers, from that economy.
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But there's more to free movement than that. And, presumably, regarding e gates, the government at the time decided they'd rather minimise the queues than fight for our right to use e gates in Europe (I doubt it was even on their radar as a consideration, given they just wanted it over with).
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I don't believe that there was ever a serious intention to put in the infrastructure that the rhetoric demanded.....and nor was there a concern to achieve access to, or parity with, other countries. It was just about making us a big captive rental market for international business partners to exploit.
