Reply To: More on Brexit
As a world socialist party perhaps these are the aspects of Brexit that should concern us the most.
“…EU citizens living in the UK would be stripped of their freedom of movement, housing and social security rights by Home Office legislation introduced to regulate immigration following Brexit, a parliamentary report has warned.
Despite repeated government reassurances that their privileges will be protected, a study by the joint committee on human rights (JCHR) concludes that more than 3 million Europeans living in Britain would be left in legal “limbo”…Irish nationals’ rights, guaranteed by separate common travel area agreements, would be “diminished”. Their ability to bring in a spouse from a non-EU state, for example, would be limited…Without the necessary protections, the bill could leave individuals in a precarious situation over such issues as “housing, social security and property rights”..”