UK Tories float idea for travel restriction

The Reid wrote:

> Nice idea the Tories are playing with, "green" policy of one foreign
> leisure trip a year! Don't suppose it will get much further?

I wonder how they could manage to enforce it? Ireland in particular
would pose a serious problem in enforcement.

Would they apply the restriction to foreign citizens resident in the UK?

Perhaps they could start with restricting business travel into as well
as out of the UK. And limit foreigners to only one UK visit in a
calendar year?

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, The Reid wrote:

> Nice idea the Tories are playing with, "green" policy of one foreign
> leisure trip a year! Don't suppose it will get much further?

Wouldn't a limit on trips abroad just slightly contradict the principle of
freedom of circulation within the EU?

--
Yves Bellefeuille
<yan@storm.ca>

Frank F. Matthews schrieb:
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> The Reid wrote:
>
>> Nice idea the Tories are playing with, "green" policy of one foreign
>> leisure trip a year! Don't suppose it will get much further?
>
> I wonder how they could manage to enforce it? Ireland in particular
> would pose a serious problem in enforcement.
>
> Would they apply the restriction to foreign citizens resident in the UK?
>
> Perhaps they could start with restricting business travel into as well
> as out of the UK. And limit foreigners to only one UK visit in a
> calendar year?
>
Those of us old enough to remember will recall the days of the Wilson
government when you were allowed to spend a maximum of 50 pounds a year
travelling outside of the UK.

T.

Tom Peel wrote:

> Frank F. Matthews schrieb:
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>>
>>
>> The Reid wrote:
>>
>>> Nice idea the Tories are playing with, "green" policy of one foreign
>>> leisure trip a year! Don't suppose it will get much further?
>>
>>
>> I wonder how they could manage to enforce it? Ireland in particular
>> would pose a serious problem in enforcement.
>>
>> Would they apply the restriction to foreign citizens resident in the UK?
>>
>> Perhaps they could start with restricting business travel into as well
>> as out of the UK. And limit foreigners to only one UK visit in a
>> calendar year?
>>
> Those of us old enough to remember will recall the days of the Wilson
> government when you were allowed to spend a maximum of 50 pounds a year
> travelling outside of the UK.
>
> T.
>

As I remember you were only permitted to take 50 pounds abroad. You
could spend whatever else you could find.

Padraig Breathnach wrote:

> Yves Bellefeuille <yan@storm.ca> wrote:
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>
>>On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, The Reid wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Nice idea the Tories are playing with, "green" policy of one foreign
>>>leisure trip a year! Don't suppose it will get much further?
>>
>>Wouldn't a limit on trips abroad just slightly contradict the principle of
>>freedom of circulation within the EU?
>
>
> No problem. Define "foreign" as being outside the EU.
>

So all the extra "foreign" trips would have to be on separate tickets
from CDG or Dublin?

In article <56gd0oF28sgikU1@mid.***************>, Tom Peel
<letzrwftp@freenet.de> wrote:

> Frank F. Matthews schrieb:
> >
> >
> > The Reid wrote:
> >
> >> Nice idea the Tories are playing with, "green" policy of one foreign
> >> leisure trip a year! Don't suppose it will get much further?
> >
> > I wonder how they could manage to enforce it? Ireland in particular
> > would pose a serious problem in enforcement.
> >
> > Would they apply the restriction to foreign citizens resident in the UK?
> >
> > Perhaps they could start with restricting business travel into as well
> > as out of the UK. And limit foreigners to only one UK visit in a
> > calendar year?
> >
> Those of us old enough to remember will recall the days of the Wilson
> government when you were allowed to spend a maximum of 50 pounds a year
> travelling outside of the UK.

In France, you could be in your 20s and remember currency
restrictions....

jay
Fri Mar 23, 2007
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