Originally Posted by
Mrmorreti
Absolutely correct.
I have given it some thought and can't come up with any other industry where those at the pointy end, responsible for so much and open to such intense scrutiny have been screwed to such an extent.
This applies to any serious industry where travelling crews are involved.
If you go to any major industrial site (power station, paper mill, steel mill, auto plant, railway, etc) during a intense work period (a shutdown or a construction event) you will find the place swamped with non-UK engineers & technicians. During the period of UK membership of the EU that was a two-way flow, now it is only one-way.
The legalities of the inbound flow vary. Some crews come into the UK entirely legally on short term specialist visas that are handed out like confett, they tend to be working for (or subcontracted to) the major companies. Others are less legal but not hindered. Going the other way the rules are correctly and strictly applied and basically there is now little to no flow.
Needless to say this news does not get allowed into the media who appear to be enforcing a de facto censorship to all matters Brexit.
This stuff has affected lots of my peer group.
(Anyone who voted for Brexit gets zero sympathy from me. Those who voted Remain get all my sympathy. This is by no means over yet.)