Brexit

[Gambatte]

They are all issues to be discussed and thrashed out but they are hardly insurmountable.

I agree they are not insurmountable. But 1) it's a big failure of the Brexit campaign not to have discussed them, never and 2) hard to imagine a trade deal, or any deal, will be agreed before these questions have been settled.

I still don't understand the justification for your comment that EU citizens will be sent back.

These people do not have a VISA right now, they don't need one. And one day, overnight, they will presumably need it. What criteria will they need to satisfie and how long will they have to get it? This is something they don't know, nobody does not even the Home Office, and I bet is giving them immense stress.
What about those with job, house, family, friends and everything else? Right now they don't know whether they will be allowed to stay in the country.

[Muddy Retriever]

I agree they are not insurmountable. But 1) it's a big failure of the Brexit campaign not to have discussed them, never and 2) hard to imagine a trade deal, or any deal, will be agreed before these questions have been settled.

Personally I think the Government should have made an unequivocal declaration early on after the vote that all EU citizens living in the UK would have the right to stay. In fact that is what Leave campaigners like Gove and Johnson wanted. Even so I think the prospects of them being made to leave are zero, not least because people acquire rights under international law anyway (Vienna Convention).