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The simple truth is that the British Government can do nothing at all to halt the next wave of immigration from Romania and Bulgaria, according to Nigel Farage MEP, the UK Independence Party's leader in the European Parliament. "The membership of these countries is a done deal. The best we can hope for is that their membership of the EU is delayed for a year. But that is it. All the treaties have been signed, the European Parliament has agreed it and another 350,000 or so workers will be arriving in Britain" said Mr Farage.
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Is Nigel entirely correct about this? - i.e. his apparent claim that if Bulgaria and Romania join EU in near future (eg 1st Jan 2007), the UK could not impose at least temporary restrictions of the sort currently used by France and Spain in relation to those countries that joined the EU in 2004.
If he is correct that the UK government can do "nothing at all" it would be useful if it was explained precisely why that would be the situation.
(I don't doubt that for the medium and long-term the situation will be as the above statement suggests, and, of course, illegal immigration will continue as now.)