Britain's Prince William leaves after officially opening the Dickson Poon University of Oxford China Centre, in Oxford, central England
Britain's Prince William leaves after officially opening the Dickson Poon University of Oxford China Centre, in Oxford, central England September 8, 2014. Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate are expecting their second baby, Buckingham Palace said on Monday. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

The central theme of the U.K. general election 2015 is going to be resisting migration at the cost of relations with the European Union. Accordingly, U.K. is mulling stringent curbs on workers coming to U.K. from other EU countries where high unemployment and economic decline are troubling the citizens. In short, Britain is getting ready to shut doors on the EU brethren unless they are economically well off.

The rudiments of this plan were in the making when David Cameron literally pushing immigration and U.K.'s relationship with the European Union with a promised referendum in 2017 as the main poll plank, reported Daily Mail. As an early phase, Cameron mooted a plan of stopping migrants from poor EU countries with a doctrine -- until you reach a proper share of average European Union GDP, you will not enjoy freedom of movement. Now the U.K. wants to broad base that yard stick to introduce economic tests for all the current 27 member states. The Tories argue that migration between well-off countries like Britain, Germany or France are balanced. They are facing influx from poorer EU countries who are aiming and wealthy countries.

According to a senior Conservative source, it can be done. For example, if the economy of Spain or Italy's collapses below that threshold level, U.K. must say you cannot come here.

Migration Up

Statistics from the Office for National Statistics suggested that net migration from EU countries to the U.K. has shot up in recent years and touched 131,000 in the 12 months that ended in March 2014. This was a blow to Tories promise to cut net migration by 'tens of thousands' as the sharp rise in people arriving from other EU countries, seemed to have defeated the government's plan to control the influx. Discontent is brewing among the British public over the high level of immigration taking place in the U.K., as it has been great and too fast, reported RT.

Facing Political Loss

Cameron in his party conference at Birmingham made clear that freedom of movement would be the bedrock of all negotiations that Britain will have with the EU. Politically too, Cameron is under pressure. The Labour Party is doing well in opinion polls and a rising UKIP is snapping up Cameron's MPs and donors. The recent catches of UKIP included Douglas Carswell, Mark Reckless and donor Arron Banks. But Cameron is trying to put a brave face reassuring the party and electorate that he still has substance to deliver, citing some past deals with the EU. Cameron asserted that he will have his way in Britain First policy and cutting off EU migrants by getting what he wants from the EU.

Cameron is taking credit for his strong stand vis a vis EU in many matters of the past such as vetoeing a Treaty on European Union budget and insistence to exit from all European bail-out schemes.