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Originally Posted by Kursk
Understood. I feel our primary moral obligation is to UK citizens living abroad and when EU leaders turned down our proposal to resolve the issue up front of negotiations, they made their citizens hostage to fortune.
It isn't nice but this isn't a game of cricket. We can't keep on trying to instil our sense of fair play in people who want to play by different rules.
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I think you're a tad pessimistic on this point. Let's take the moral high ground. It will create buckets of goodwill for the UK and give the EU 27 a feeling that they "owe" us something and that we are genuine about a mutually beneficial solution. It will also save key parts of the country suffering if doctors, surgeons and other key EU-born nationals leave through uncertainty.