Like it or not, it looks more than likely we’ll be leaving the European Union soon.
Brexit will mean changes that impact on businesses and individuals, and these will depend on whether we leave with or without a deal.
With this in mind, the council has created a Get ready for Brexit page on our website containing important information we all need.
Visit the page and you’ll find guidance on what to do if you’re an EU resident who wants to stay in the UK.
There’s a link to 26 different European languages that will take you through the process of applying to the EU Settlement Scheme.
We value every one of our residents, including EU citizens, who are welcome to stay in our city and make it their home.
If you’re a local business, there’s a link to the government’s “tools for businesses” that will help you be better prepared for us leaving, including how it will affect your industry and the different rules and regulations you will need to know.
There’s been a lot of worrying media stories on how leaving will affect health and medical supplies so we’ve also included guidance on ordering medicines and what the NHS is doing to prepare.
If you want to travel to Europe, you will need to think about whether you have the correct travel documents for both getting to and driving within the 27 EU countries, as well as travelling with pets and even mobile data roaming.
There’s a link to sign up for email alerts on travelling abroad after we leave. The last thing any of us want is to get to an airport, ferry port or the Eurostar only to be turned away as we don’t have the correct documents!
The final section tells you more about how we, as a council, are preparing – something our Brexit Resilience and Planning Group has been doing for 18 months, including an analysis of the potential impacts of leaving.
Information will be updated as we get further into the Brexit process and things get clearer.
We may not all agree on whether we leave or remain. But we should all be prepared. Bringing all the information together in one place is sure to help so please do share this post with your friends and family so they can be prepared too.
Councillor Nancy Platts is the Labour leader of Brighton and Hove City Council.
Well done Mr Cameron for ruining our country with your stupid referendum, asking a question which every opinion poll from 1995 to mid 2015 (as shown on the BBC two days ago) showed that no more than about 4% of people were even concerned about our membership of the EU, and many more were worried about the NHS, Schools, the Economy etc etc…
Will this get posted, or will the Brexiteers object and get it removed as it contains actual facts and not unicorns?
so the next time there is a general election in this country and we don’t like the result shall we just keep having votes till we get the result we want, if Brexit is not delivered millions of people will never bother to vote again in this country anyway we didn’t vote for a deal we voted to leave and that is what should happen like it or not, I shouldn’t take too much notice what the BBC say.
You do have another vote, every five years in the next general
election.
By your logic, as we voted already in 1975 for continued membership of the EU, the 2016 referendum should not have taken place. Case closed I’d say, and by the way, you cannot re-write history, the Leave campaign did not campaign for leaving without a deal, amd stated the opposite, “easiest deal in history”, “we hold all the cards”, “nobody is suggesting we leave the single market and customs union”, even Rees Mogg said in 2011 (google the video) that “a second referendum when the terms on which we will actually leave would be a good idea”, this is all FACT!
Nobody is denying you your voice, a second (or third actually) referendum is exactly that, DEMOCRATIC now that people know the reality of what will have (or have not) been agreed with the EU.
The reason Leavers scream that it’s anti democratic to have a confirmatory referendum is precisely because they think they will lose.
How undemocratic of them!”
If you want to take the temperature of the British electorate then just look at who they elected in the recent European elections. The largest group is The Brexit Party. Swivel eyed loons to a man/woman/non binary but democratically elected non the less.