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Boris celebrates taking back control of Brexit Britain's immigration – with unlimited immigration program

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Brain drain versus brain gain

The main problem with this plan is that the bestest and the brightest tend to be very aware of politics and social issues, as well as those fancy equation thingys. Thus, they will be very aware of the fact that the current government opportunistically whipped up anti-immigrant sentiment with simplistic slogans in order to win votes. At the moment this has taken the form of "close the door" rather than "kick them out", but the second sentiment is likely to arise once the door has been closed. Add in a hostile environment policy that forces people to prove their entitlement to many basics of existence such as medical care and bank accounts and it soon becomes apparent that future settlement here is going to feel grudging and come with big bureaucratic hassles. For top talent used to being headhunted rather than having to apply for things, this is all going to look very unappealing.

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