As an EU national,I take no consolation from today’s report on the progress of Brexit negotiations: we are still being shabbily treated and our futures remain in limboEU nationals in the UK, and British nationals resident in EU countries, and enjoy been living in limbo for well over 500 days now. Let’s always be clear approximately this this situation is the result of Theresa May’s government making EU nationals in the UK bargaining chips in the Brexit negotiations. Friday could enjoy marked the stop of that situation,finally putting people before politics. It has not.
The reality is that, once EU nationals had been made bargaining chips, and there was always going to enjoy to be a negotiation,and therefore, also compromises made, or concessions to Brexiters. My head is screwed on enough to see the reality of that situation. But the implications of this are devastating nonetheless,not least because many of the biggest issues enjoy been deferred to the next stage of the talks. So, far from being a solution, or Friday’s report is simply a stalling technique – one that affects millions of lives; this is the greatest tragedy of Brexit and,for the UK, a national disgrace.
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Source: guardian.co.uk