I am not sure that I was the one who introduced the phrase. I am writing from abroad even now. We do not have to accept a non EU citizen if we do not want to, even if he has already entered the EU. We are not in Schengen, the whole point of which was to have a reliable EU border and then free movement within. It follows that we do not have to accept a non EU citizen who wishes to enter via another EU country.
That is not strictly true. If a non-EU citizen marries an EU citizen or enters a civil partnership with him, he has a right to come here with the said EU citizen. Likewise, the spouse's dependant children and parents also have a derivative right to enter the UK. Similarly, if it can be claimed that to remove any non-EU citizen from the UK would somehow deter an EU citizen (including a British national) from exercising his right to move freely within the EU or provide services within the EU, it may prove impossible to remove the non-EU citizen.
I think the Law Society will also be interested in this. All we need now is for Ruth Davidson's completely made up tweet about burly men in DCT to come back to haunt her.
The Metropolitan Police is continuing to spend half a million pounds a month investigating allegations against journalists, it has been revealed.
Inquiries into phone and computer hacking and corrupt payments have already topped £37 million since they were launched in the wake of the News of the World scandal in 2011.
But figures released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that the spending is continuing apace, with the bill reaching almost £4 million for the last eight months alone.
This comes at a time when the force is having to make unprecedented budget cuts and has to find £800 million of savings in the next four years.
Its plod (and the taxpayer!) that should be getting compensation from the Mirror, not just some Z lister.
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Carnyx Tactical votes though may well help the LDs as they began to do in 2015