In November last year, the British Gov offered an amnesty deal with the EU for EU citizens living in the UK giving right to remain in return for the same for UK Citizens in the EU.

This was rejected by Merkel and Tusk.

Today, the House Of Lords have pushed back on the democratic referendum outcome, seeking to have the bill to invoke article 50 amended to unilaterally protect EU residents in the UK in advance of negotiations without any assurances whatsoever that the rights of UK Citizens abroad will be similarly protected in return.

Needless to say this is just a cover for the underlying objective of throwing a spanner in the works.

We'll see how it pans out. Meanwhile, please distribute widely the petition below to try and get it past the 100k mark to at least give legitimacy to an actual debate in parliament on the hopefully clipped future of this despotic institution, who in this case have overstepped the mark.

[link to petition.parliament.uk (secure)]