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Ed Larson,
You need far more than 'enlightenment' and a snarky request framed by your sense of self-entitlement to an answer. Your questions and comments to my post on the UK show a complete lack of knowledge about what the EU is, what a country's membership in it means, what May has done since the article you linked -an old one from last July! You'd need to do intense studying of all the above and read what's happened each day over the past 7 months. .
I'll tell you only that:
'Brexit' hasn't occurred. The UK is a member state of the EU. Brits are EU citizens.
The referendum was merely an advisory opinion to the government, not one that compels a government to make law or oust informed debate and scrutiny by Parliament, nor one that identifies judges as evil for respecting and applying the British Constitution.
The UK is suffering its worst constitutional crisis since WWII
Xenohobia is not being controlled. May ignores it. She's both encouraging and living off dividing British citizens from one another and from non-UK EU residents in the UK. A Polish man residing in the UK was bullied on a bus by 5 passengers to "GO HOME" and forced off the bus by threats of physical injury. Another one had been beaten to death in the street a few weeks before: he was caught speaking Polish. School children arrived at school one day to find notes from classmates asking, "Wnen are you leaving?" although the targets were born in England. A patient seeing his doctor for a health problem asked him casually the same question. An Italian visitor on holiday in the UK was blasted for speaking Italian with her travel companion. Non-UK EU citizens who are experts and profs at the LSE received letters saying their services were no longer needed and that they can't take up a job in the UK which requires their advising the British government on EU law or its systems and practices. (Note: the UK has only 20 trade negotiators. The EU itself has 600. There would be no pubic healthcare in the UK but for the EU resident foreigners in the UK who are 1/3 or 2/3 of its staff.)
I've cancelled a short visit to London. I'm too afraid to holiday in my own country now. Even though one is a British citizen, some are seen as foreigners by Brexiters for knowing any language other than English. If you reply that you're British, you can be called a traitor to British values for having exercised your EU right of free movement incorporated into British law for 44 years now. My husband and I attended university here to learn French and French culture as new retirees. There's too big a risk of my starting to speak in French in the UK before I realise that I am and then, embarrassed, switching to English.
You'd be better off focusing on the important news provided by 'bajo_cero' and 'steve' about Arg and its severe constitutional challenge to citizenship - the highest status that each person in the world can have in his life.
You need far more than 'enlightenment' and a snarky request framed by your sense of self-entitlement to an answer. Your questions and comments to my post on the UK show a complete lack of knowledge about what the EU is, what a country's membership in it means, what May has done since the article you linked -an old one from last July! You'd need to do intense studying of all the above and read what's happened each day over the past 7 months. .
I'll tell you only that:
'Brexit' hasn't occurred. The UK is a member state of the EU. Brits are EU citizens.
The referendum was merely an advisory opinion to the government, not one that compels a government to make law or oust informed debate and scrutiny by Parliament, nor one that identifies judges as evil for respecting and applying the British Constitution.
The UK is suffering its worst constitutional crisis since WWII
Xenohobia is not being controlled. May ignores it. She's both encouraging and living off dividing British citizens from one another and from non-UK EU residents in the UK. A Polish man residing in the UK was bullied on a bus by 5 passengers to "GO HOME" and forced off the bus by threats of physical injury. Another one had been beaten to death in the street a few weeks before: he was caught speaking Polish. School children arrived at school one day to find notes from classmates asking, "Wnen are you leaving?" although the targets were born in England. A patient seeing his doctor for a health problem asked him casually the same question. An Italian visitor on holiday in the UK was blasted for speaking Italian with her travel companion. Non-UK EU citizens who are experts and profs at the LSE received letters saying their services were no longer needed and that they can't take up a job in the UK which requires their advising the British government on EU law or its systems and practices. (Note: the UK has only 20 trade negotiators. The EU itself has 600. There would be no pubic healthcare in the UK but for the EU resident foreigners in the UK who are 1/3 or 2/3 of its staff.)
I've cancelled a short visit to London. I'm too afraid to holiday in my own country now. Even though one is a British citizen, some are seen as foreigners by Brexiters for knowing any language other than English. If you reply that you're British, you can be called a traitor to British values for having exercised your EU right of free movement incorporated into British law for 44 years now. My husband and I attended university here to learn French and French culture as new retirees. There's too big a risk of my starting to speak in French in the UK before I realise that I am and then, embarrassed, switching to English.
You'd be better off focusing on the important news provided by 'bajo_cero' and 'steve' about Arg and its severe constitutional challenge to citizenship - the highest status that each person in the world can have in his life.