I don't know of you're being deliberately obtuse or missing the point. There is a situation of EU nationals in the UK and UK nationals in the UK. So, bearing in mind the rhetoric coming from the EU in terms of 'punishment' (which even you must have heard), this issue needs to be sorted out as...
IMO, the EU is the party trying to play hard-ball over this. You continue to believe what you want (as per normal), but all I have seen so far from the EU team is disingenuous, such as Juncker leaking/misleading after a PRIVATE meeting at Downing Street. The UK government has said it is...
We'll have to agree to disagree then. In the context of the overall negotiations this should not be a major issue. The EU/UK could have come to an "agreed, published understanding", subject to final negotiation to take that worry away from all individuals, but the EU chose not to. They are...
It really is a tough call on this.
In principle I agree that the country should have some form of say. I would agree that the referendum was not clear as to what was entailed by Brexit. To me it was leaving the control of the EU, stopping free movement (but not the same as stopping...
The UK has already offered to get this issue sorted early but this has been declined by the EU. So, the EU which you love so much is the party screwing with peoples lives.
And I wouldn't want to hear of their plans. Why should we? If the EU don't know what our aims/requirements are, they won't know what our real ambitions are from the negotiations. I know you're an intelligent guy, but surely you can see the logic to the government keeping it's plans private...
As a natural Tory voter (by this I mean - to paraphrase - "It's the economy stupid" as the economy needs to be successful to fund everything else), I hope that TM gets back in even though she does not inspire me, but then again, nor does Corbyn as he's promising too much which he can't deliver...