If Theresa May Wants To Became Our Next Prime Minister, Should She Now Guarantee The Status Of Eu Citizens Living In The Uk After Brexit?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tories-divided-over-guarantee-that-eu-citizens-will-not-be-deported-andrea-leadsom-theresa-may-7119676.html

[rockyracoon]

Yes. Except the criminals.

[dannyk13]

They should be allowed to stay with a caveat that convicted criminals can be deported.

[anotheoldgit]

Not just criminals, but also those who cannot support themselves.

[ubasses]

Can't find where I read it now, but Theresa May is not making a commitment so that she can ensure the rights of British Expats in Europe. If she does so, and Eu countries 'do the dirty' on British in their countries, she has nothing to negotiate with on their behalf.

[jno]

yes, that sounds like a sensible negotiationg procedure, ubasses: she will need to negotiate on it, so she shoulkd keep her powder dry in the meantime.

[anotheoldgit]

ubasses

The difference being that most of our Expats are advantageous to the European countries they have chosen to work and settle in.

Unlike many of the EU economic immigrants in this country that are a strain on our economy.

[Ellipsis]

Should Theresa May guarantee the status of EU citizens living in the UK after Brexit? Yes, of course she should, if she wants any hope of being PM. Even Nigel Farage recognises that to do otherwise would be a very bad idea.

How many people voting Brexit thought they were voting for forced repatriation of legal migrants? Think about that phrase, "forced repatriation" ... is that really what you want to be going on in Britain? "Go back home, Johnny Foreigner." Wow.

These people are not to be used as a bargaining chip over the next two years. We have plenty of other bargaining chips - we don't need to bargain with people's lives, and the very fact we would consider it sets a bad tone for negotiations and, after that, ongoing relations with Europe.

[anotheoldgit]

Ellipsis

/// How many people voting Brexit thought they were voting for forced repatriation of legal migrants? Think about that phrase, "forced repatriation" ... is that really what you want to be going on in Britain? "Go back home, Johnny Foreigner." Wow. ///

And what about these legal migrants, should we not send these home?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/11324057/Surge-in-Romanian-rough-sleepers.html

[Ellipsis]

Theresa May is talking about all migrants AOG, including people who have lived here for years, have a mortgage here, a job, maybe even children born here. It is disgusting that she would dangle the issue of forced repatriation over such people.

[Gromit]

After we leave the EU we will join the European Economic Area, which guarantees freedom of movement between members.

[ToraToraTora]

so you now accept that A50 will be invoked gromit? who says we will join the EEA?

[baza]

Gromit, sounds like out of the frying pan, the vote was leave or stay, leave won, most of us want to cut ties with the corrupt machine.

[naomi24]

//we will join the European Economic Area, which guarantees freedom of movement between members. //

We will? Who says?

[jno]

the EEA route has been suggested in the Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/27/after-brexit-only-one-thing-can-keep-britain-together-the-norway/

and the FT

https://next.ft.com/content/883f1ab2-3fa3-11e6-8716-a4a71e8140b0

It seems like a legitimate strategy the government will be considering.

[retrocop]

Having spent the best part of a month in hospital I can assure any one who has been able to avoid the experience that the Italian, Spanish and most Eastern European nurses who trained in their own countries are a true asset to our NHS.
They are hands on, dedicated and knowledgeable unlike a lot of overweight, lazy so called British born individuals who find any thing too much trouble for them except collect their pay!! It was because of the latter individuals dangerous indifference to the care of their patients I discharged myself before the required treatment was given. We need to assure these stalwarts that they are appreciated and at worst would get a visa rubber stamped to work and reside in the UK.

[naomi24]

jno, speculation doesn't equate to fact.

[Hopkirk]

She won't deport anyone, she just doesn't want to say they can stay until she gets agreement that our expats in Europe will also be allowed to stay. Very sensible I would say.

[naomi24]

^I agree.

[Ellipsis]

No it's not sensible. It's disgusting, which is why no other Tory leadership candidate is doing it, why Farage and Nuttall deride it, why nobody else has a good word to say about it. She is proposing bargaining with people's lives. "Spain, if you don't send our migrants home, we won't send Poland's migrants home." Huh???

Somebody should make a poster with Theresa May standing on the Eurostar platform at St Pancras station, pointing behind her at scenes of legal EU migrants being herded onto trains by police, with a headline of "Forced Repatriation" and subheading of "Vote May and send Johnny Foreigner back to where they came from" ...

[Jackdaw33]

But what is the alternative? What if May guarantees EU nationals residence and EU countries start sending our nationals home? She is between a rock and a hard place.