I have stayed away for some time as the atmosphere on this forum was like poison.

As mentioned before I will only return occasionally with the intend for a second referendum, once the truth and all facts are on the table.

1. Scottish independent referendum. Can not happen quick enough before the rest of the UK drag Scotland down more and more.
Good to hear that somebody want´s the people involved in the final decision/deal.

2. Northern Ireland will be next for a referendum. Who wants checkpoints, a couple of years later a fence, soldiers and tanks and then a UK Trump building a wall instead of keeping an agreement in place which works for all.

3. Today Brexit Secretary David Davis has stunned MPs by admitting he has done no economic assessment of crashing out of the EU with ‘no deal’. If "no deal" is not frightening and no economic assessment of impact. What exactly is in that contingency plan then? Be afraid, be very afraid. Over-confidence combined with incompetence is one heady cocktail.

4. Unemployment up in February by more than twice then expected. Retail sales down not up. Keep in mind washing machines can tell you the real truth about an economy. A product people only buy when they have and/or can afford it.

Two things that should make us Expats worried.

On the cards are no pension increments and EHIC cards and S1 will be gone too.

The Government shows no sign that it understands who we really are. Nor has it displayed much interest in finding out. And it still has not stated how it proposes to fix the ghastly limbo into which one million UK citizens were plunged the day after the referendum. Instead, it hides behind the excuse that it can do, and say, nothing until negotiations start. Yet this is not true. Important matters that have nothing to do with other EU states can be fixed immediately. Two hundred thousand fearful retirees, some of them poor and vulnerable, can attest to that. They want to know whether their pensions will be frozen for ever and gradually eaten away by inflation – as currently happens to UK pensioners who retire to most non-EU countries. The government has had seven months to calm their fears. It has chosen not to. That is, at best, lazy. At worst, it is cynical and callous.

Three government departments have been unable to tell me why this has not been settled already. The obvious suspicion is that the real plan is to use Brexit to claw back pension payments, effectively punishing those who moved to the EU in the secure belief that this would never happen to them.