This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

Three minutes after ten, and it's here. The point-based immigration system. It's not actually Australian style, but then who cares? I mean, nobody knows what that even means anyway, any more than anybody really knows what point-based immigration system. It's not actually Australian style, but then who cares?

I know nobody knows what that even means anyway, any more than anybody really knows what points-based

means. They were always blunt instruments designed to bludgeon facts with excitable feelings.

In this case, the feelings of being swamped or being overrun or being

undermined or, in short, that your life is made worse by the presence of people who weren't

born. Well, actually, that's not even true, is it? Your life is made worse by the presence of people

in this country, some people in this country, and then we arbitrarily

determine what qualifications put them into that category. Do you know when I knew the game was up,

in 2020 hindsight is a wonderful thing. But a lot of people in the metropolitan elite, by the way,

metropolitan elites are laughing with these new immigration rules.

If the EU were to fully reciprocate on these grounds, then obviously highly educated high earners aren't going to lose any freedom of movement at all.

They or possibly we, although I'm no polyglot, we'll be able to move wherever we want.

But if you earn less than 25 grand a year and the EU reciprocates in any way,

you won't be retiring to Spain any time soon without passing a Spanish test.

You'll be all right on that, will you?

Desauno, dos des inglese, por favor?

I don't know.

And what is a low-skilled worker in your view?

I wonder how many people will ring me and tell me that they are low-skilled workers,

because I find that phrase really obnoxious, really obnoxious.

If the people currently looking after your very sick grandfather are low skilled workers,

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