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No. The rhetoric and threats are off the scale for both sides at the moment. What gets missed in the (profitable) news din is that UK Gov has all but guaranteed
by alva 9y ago
No. The rhetoric and threats are off the scale for both sides at the moment. What gets missed in the (profitable) news din is that UK Gov has all but guaranteed EU folk can stay in the country as before.
This has been reiterated since day one. EU citizens will have a right to stay and UK Gov will do absolutely everything they can to see that through. The only reason they cannot put it to paper yet is they are waiting for reciprocacy from the EU.
Once the EU agrees to provide UK in EU with exactly the same rights as the UK is offering them, it will go down in law.
There is so much bluster and threats from all sides. It takes a bit of digging and close examination to see what really is being said and offered.
- Steer 9y ago> Once the EU agrees to provide UK in EU with exactly the same rights as the UK is offering them Will EU do this though? Seems strange to allow UK both to be in and out of the EU at the same time.
- osullivj 9y agoThere are 3.2M EU citizens in the UK, and 1.2M UK citizens in the EU. So it makes sense for the EU27 to offer reciprocity.
- m_t 9y ago> The only reason they cannot put it to paper yet is they are waiting for reciprocacy from the EU. Once the EU agrees to provide UK in EU with exactly the same rights as the UK is offering them, it will go down in law. You have it the wrong way around. The EU negotiation team proposed for all EU nationals (EU in the UK, and UK in the EU) to keep the same rights first, and the UK replied with a much worse deal.