Aussie rules

WHAT Switzerland is to watches and France is to beauty products, Australia is to immigration systems: a national guarantee of quality. Before Britain’s referendum on EU membership on June 23rd, Brexiteers invoked the Aussie brand to sell an alternative to the free movement of labour within the European Union. Leave the EU, they said, and Britain could enact an “Australian-style points-based immigration system”. Voters went for it. But they have been sold a dodgy product.