Thousands of Turkish Students Could Come to UK as Starmer Hands EU £570 Million to Rejoin Erasmus Scheme for a Year
Keir Starmer faced outrage this week after handing the EU £570 million to rejoin the Erasmus student exchange programme – and opening the door to a wave of arrivals from Turkey and North Africa. The Mail has more.
Ministers have voiced jubilation at the “fair and balanced” deal despite the eye-watering cost only covering 2027-29.
On an annual basis the sum is double what Boris Johnson rejected as too expensive in 2021. It is equivalent to roughly a fifth of the entire EU funding envelope for Erasmus+, although the Government insists a chunk of the money will go on travel for British youngsters.
Worryingly, Brussels is already signalling that a 30% “discount” will not be repeated, meaning the cost could hit £810 million a year in future.
Students from Turkey will be eligible to come to the UK in 2027, as the country is an ‘associate’ member of the scheme. And Brussels has declared it wants to expand the arrangements to cover countries such as Egypt, Algeria and Morocco.
When the UK was in the scheme previously, far more students came here than went to Europe. Government aides played down the risk of people overstaying visas once they had made it to Britain for courses, which will range from two to 12 months.
However, Tories accused the PM of “exposing Britain to all sorts of risks” as he tries to ‘suck up’ to the EU.
The dramatic deal will fuel alarm that Sir Keir is unwinding Brexit, after blaming cutting ties for the economy’s poor performance. It is regarded as a first step towards a so-called ‘youth free movement’ deal being demanded by the EU.
Before the Budget, Rachel Reeves pushed for an “ambitious” youth migration deal with the EU.
The Chancellor said an exchange scheme for young workers would be “good for the economy, good for growth and good for business”.
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This is nothing more than a shabby means of importing thousands more fighting age men using the guise of “students.” And of course of establishing those all important ties to the USSEU.
It will take at least a day in court when the charges detailing his treason are read out to Kneel.
“It is equivalent to roughly a fifth of the entire EU funding envelope for Erasmus+…”
Wow, that is exactly what British Taxpayers were paying every year into the whole EU budget before Brexit, and the reason all the EU countries were desperate to keep us in, because we were paying ONE-FIFTH of the entire EU Budget !!!
So Stalin Starmer is stealthily re-instating our whopping contributions, a few projects at a time. As the much-maligned David Icke once called the Globalist plan,
“The Totalitarian Two-Step: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back”
Any reason at all to keep the gates open.
One question. “Why?”
Elderly bottoms need wiping
A friend’s son married a Turkish girl when he was at a Turkish university. She like him was studying for a PhD in some esoteric aspect of biochemistry. He got a good job in UK but she was unable to join him for 5 years. At the time the Turks insisted that their graduates stayed to work for the benefit of their country, otherwise they would need to repay all the state’s costs for their education.
It would be good if this country applied the same rules, especially in the medical profession.
What is “fair and balanced” (other than to the political elites) to give away money for something we don’t want or need. Our own school leavers with good grades cannot get into medical school or into nursing (which does not need to be a degree level profession at all) yet we are to pay half a billion so EU students can come here.
Its a deal a bit like giving away Chagos and paying a country which had never owned it tens of billions for the privilege.
When we complain about no one in government or the blob having business experience I think we did assume they had actually been shopping once and realised when you hand over money you get something you want in exchange!
Utter insanity.
Whenever Spineless Starmer “negotiates” anything, everyone looking on knows that the result will be something detrimental to Britain which will cost us millions, if not billions, of pounds.
Despite hating the whole structure of the EU, I actually have no problems with exchange programmes for university students. If a few dozen Cambridge students study in Paris or Heidelberg and a similar number come here, fine. This equally applies to any top category university around the world. What I would object to is some of our barely genuine universities being involved and what I really do not understand is why it has anything to do with Brussels and, even more, why we have to pay into that evil, corrupt cesspit for the privilege of allowing a few students to spend a bit of time in another university. What in hell has it got to do with those trough swilling pigs?
A few? Well how much is that per student, and where is the benefit to English taxpayers?
Sorry, Jack, I didn’t make myself clear. While I don’t mind a few students exchanging between universities – exchange of knowledge is a good thing at any time – it should be organised between the institutions and have nothing to do with us taxpayers. It should be funded by them, after all they have plenty of wealthy graduates who could set up foundations and bursaries.
Agreed 100%.
The Chancellor said an exchange scheme for young workers would be “good for the economy, good for growth and good for business”.
So says our incredibly incompetent Chancellor as her stupid policies raise unemployment, especially for young workers. I wonder what an FOI request for the cost benefit of spending taxpayers money on this scheme would reveal other then there probably isn’t one.