One surprise to many EU expats living in Britain is that they have to apply for permanent residence permit again.
One from Denmark complained who has been to married to a Scot and lived in Scotland almost 70 years together have to do that.
Come to think about my sister who now has lived in England for about 50 years.
I wonder if my nephew has to do that as well who was born in England but not being a British citizen.
Most likely they all will be allowed to stay but who knows...

In that context, scrutiny of the Identity Cards Act 2006 is relevant.

The Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition formed after the 2010 general election announced that the ID card scheme would be scrapped. The Identity Cards Act was repealed by the Identity Documents Act 2010 on 21 January 2011, and the cards were invalidated with no refunds to purchasers. Foreign nationals from outside the European Union, however, continue to require an ID card for use as a biometric residence permit under the provisions of the UK Borders Act 2007 and the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009.

I suspect that in due course, foreign nationals from outside our much-reduced little Union of Kingdoms may face the same requirement.

Erskine May 1 - Theresa May 0

Third Brexit vote must be different

John Bercow has ruled out another vote on the government's previously rejected Brexit agreement if the motion remains "substantially the same".

Does Sweden sell anything to or buy anything from the UK?

Of course we do. Especially services. Something that always is forgotten in the debate.

Both Swedish imports of services and goods amounted to SEK 62 billion each in 2016, and the UK thus placed itself in the first and fifth places on the list of the most important dispatching countries for Swedish imports. This means that 12% of service imports and 5.2% of goods imports in Sweden come from the UK.

Sweden mainly exports workshop products (passenger cars, buses and trucks) and other manufacturing products, as well as pharmaceuticals, wood, paper petroleum products and metals. The export of food and fashion has increased in recent years and is becoming increasingly interesting in the UK market. The export of services consists primarily of the use of intellectual property rights, travel, transport and data, telecommunications and business services.

Erskine May 1 - Theresa May 0

Third Brexit vote must be different

John Bercow has ruled out another vote on the government's previously rejected Brexit agreement if the motion remains "substantially the same".

A single man will force a hard exit.

A single man will force a hard exit.

A single man is attempting to ensure that a profoundly un-democratic executive has to operate by democratic rules, not by bullying and bribery.

I actually agree with that aim.

Good post. However:

Before concluding, I would also add that the roots of the EU was first the European Coal and Steel Community, then the European Economic Community,. This name was first proposed as the name for a post-WW2 means to control Europe in 1942 by the Nazis in Berlin, they called it Europaische Wirtschaffgeseilschaft, which you guessed it, means European Economic Community in German, because the Nazis thought they were going to win. It later was renamed the European Union.
If ever there was a bad smell about an organisation, then the fact that it was first proposed by Nazis, has to be it.

It may be that they used that thought/idea BUT IT IS NOT the roots of the EU.

That is down to the following men:
Sir Arthur Salter
Jean Monnet
practically 2 decades earlier.

As to what made the EU it is today is all down to:
A failed Italian communist

Suggested reading for a better understanding of the EU:
Sir Arthur Salter - The United States of Europe 1933
The Great Deception 2005 - Updated 2016

A single man will force a hard exit.

A single man is attempting to ensure that a profoundly un-democratic executive has to operate by democratic rules, not by bullying and bribery.

I actually agree with that aim.

You actually believe that there is any other deal out there?

I'm sorry but your country is being told to sit on it and rotate. EU doesn't think they need you, and are going to use you as an example to bully every other member state to never think of leaving. So sorry, but the details on how to leave should have been negotiated before you made the decision to leave. Or do you like signing blank documents?

You should:
1) Call a halt
2) Negotiate a deal
3) Put the deal to a vote of the people
4) Implement if yes

You can't deal with unelected bureaucrats as they'll keep hammering you until they get the decision they want. Just look to Maastricht & Lisbon for the evidence of that.

You can't deal with unelected bureaucrats as they'll keep hammering you until they get the decision they want. Just look to Maastricht & Lisbon for the evidence of that.

That is the only people you can make a deal with on the EU side.

Didn't you know this before you voted to exit?

I did which is why sod any deal, just leave. Show the bumblings that their slice off the gravy train is heavily diminished.

You can't deal with unelected bureaucrats as they'll keep hammering you until they get the decision they want. Just look to Maastricht & Lisbon for the evidence of that.

That is the only people you can make a deal with on the EU side.
Didn't you know this before you voted to exit?

Strange question.
The Brexit referendum was now almost three years ago that said Britain should leave the EU.
But the British government still cannot get an agreement in the House of Commons what to do!
They want some deal that as far I know the EU has already agreed to.
Still the British government cannot get an agreement in the House of Commons what to do!
But this leak is interesting.
The EU's 'SECRET' Brexit Negotiation EXPOSED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agZ0xISi40E

I did which is why sod any deal, just leave. Show the bumblings that their slice off the gravy train is heavily diminished.

Or perhaps highly enriched. Who know what their plans are.

I'm sorry but your country is being told to sit on it and rotate. EU doesn't think they need you, and are going to use you as an example to bully every other member state to never think of leaving. So sorry, but the details on how to leave should have been negotiated before you made the decision to leave. Or do you like signing blank documents?

And I think they're right to do so. Their position is vastly more coherent than ours. We've messed up, badly.

You should:
1) Call a halt
2) Negotiate a deal
3) Put the deal to a vote of the people
4) Implement if yes

Agree 100%. I think I posted something almost like that. Only additional point: (2) needs to be done by a Government of National Unity, with a different chief negotiator.

I'm sorry but your country is being told to sit on it and rotate. EU doesn't think they need you, and are going to use you as an example to bully every other member state to never think of leaving. So sorry, but the details on how to leave should have been negotiated before you made the decision to leave. Or do you like signing blank documents?

And I think they're right to do so. Their position is vastly more coherent than ours. We've messed up, badly.

You should:
1) Call a halt
2) Negotiate a deal
3) Put the deal to a vote of the people
4) Implement if yes

Agree 100%. I think I posted something almost like that. Only additional point: (2) needs to be done by a Government of National Unity, with a different chief negotiator.

Starting all over? And how many years will that take?
I know that the British people is sick tired of this. The EU as well.
Make your mind up. Stay or go!

Make your mind up. Stay or go!

We don't have a choice, Our supposedly democratic, elected, Government have decided that they know everything, and will decide every detail for us. Not even a confirmatory vote. The only mind they've made up is the collective mind of the thinking classes. Who think they're crackers.

I meant "British government. Make your mind up. Stay or go!" not the British people that already had there saying that Britain should leave the EU, deal or no deal or whatever. And I say again they said it almost three years ago. Sigh...

T-10

More than likely T+9135

They can't even agree amongst themselves, what chance have they got to persuade parliament?

odd-DEURRRR, odd-DEURRRRR!

He also told Guardian newspaper he's "always been passionate about Parliament", adding: "I've always believed strongly it could do a better job."

Oh dear :-)

Mr Tusk said he believed all 27 members, who must sign off on the extension, would agree but it depended on a "positive" vote in the House of Commons.
He also suggested there were some "political and legal issues" about granting an extension beyond 23 May relating to the UK's participation in European elections - which Mrs May has said would be "unacceptable".

Delay possible but not beyond 30 June