Who, exactly, has ever even suggested that EU citizens who were already here would be forced to "go home"?
Or that they would lose the right to vote in local elections? Implementing that would be an administrative nightmare.
As long as only British citizens in Great Britain, or British or Irish citizens in Northern Ireland, could be elected to Parliament, then there need not be any nationality requirement at all for voting.
Whether or not British citizens would retain EU citizenship would be a matter for the EU.
Does anyone seriously expect it to strip 16,141,241 Remain voters and their progeny of the status that they have expressly voted to retain?
There are 20 EU member states with populations lower than 16,141,241, and that is including children.
Racism in Britain, including racist violence, did not begin on 24th June 2016.
Leave did do a lot of scaremongering. But Remain is doing an awful lot more.
Does anyone seriously expect it to strip 16,141,241 Remain voters and their progeny of the status that they have expressly voted to retain?
There are 20 EU member states with populations lower than 16,141,241, and that is including children.
Racism in Britain, including racist violence, did not begin on 24th June 2016.
Leave did do a lot of scaremongering. But Remain is doing an awful lot more.
Whether or not British citizens would retain EU citizenship would be a matter for the EU.
ReplyDeleteGuaranteeing EU citizens permanent residency before negotiations have even started would a) trigger a major influx in advance of EU exit and b) sell out our own citizens living in the EU without a complementary guarantee from Brussels.
It's a bad negotiating tactic to give away your trump card before you've started.
A major influx of whom? Anyone who wanted to come here has already done it, since we have been almost unique in the EU in allowing any and every EU citizen to move here. Hardly anywhere else has ever done that.
DeleteBut those British pensioners in Spain are not going to be deported, either.
we have been almost unique in the EU in allowing any and every EU citizen to move here. Hardly anywhere else has ever done that.
ReplyDeleteNo we haven't. The EU accession treaties allowed a temporary restriction on free movement to expire after seven years which Labour chose not to take advantage of. It's now expired, and no EU member state now has any controls on who may move here.
Such a guarantee would trigger an influx over the two-year period it would take to negotiate our departure.
It would also be a major sell-out of our own people without a matching guarantee from the EU.
There has been absolutely no suggestion of deporting people either way. When it doesn't happen, then the same types who claim to have been "lied to" in 1975 will claim to have been "lied to" in 2016. But they weren't, on either occasion.
DeleteAnyway, there is no sign of Article 50. Cameron's failure to invoke it on the day after the referendum will come to be remembered as more significant than the referendum itself.
And you are wrong about migration within the EU. Britain's free-for-all is almost unique.