In reply to Ridge:
> Either a couple of people disagree with the 'loss of individual's privileges' bit or it hit a nerve...
I was one of the dislikers - I didn't like the use of the rather loaded word 'privileges', but mostly I just wanted to disagree without having to say that, while I do still care very much about the larger issues (and have explained so on here at far more length than anyone is likely to have bothered reading), the possible forthcoming loss of my wife's rights to live and work here is just more of an immediate problem. I suspect the same is true for others.
With the cost running into the low thousands, the Kafkaesque forms and processes requiring us to provide information we don't actually have (e.g. what exact dates have you been in and out of the country since 1998, please?), the daily stress and uncertainty and consequent family arguments, and so on, it's just more on my mind than matters such as the potential destabilisation of Europe, or the economy, both of which are a bit beyond my abilities to make much difference to anyway.
There didn't seem to be much point in saying all that again - it isn't your problem, and it's just a case of getting on with it now and hoping for the best - so I just clicked 'dislike' and meant to leave it a that.
But since you commented...