Why Should We Allow A Load Of E U S S R "diplomats" To Stay Here After Brexit?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46076860

[retrocop]

I suppose because we made a Brexit pledge to retain Europeans here if they were already here with their familes and working here. They need someone to represent their interests when away from their home country.

[Old_Geezer]

Don't see how it can be an embassy since the EU isn't a single nation yet. But any legitimate non-barred group with an interest in the UK can get a base to work from here. Why not ?

[jim360]

Because diplomacy?

[gulliver1]

Wonder if Farage will be in the team, just to keep his snout in the trough.

[Rosetta]

Does gravy-train come to mind?

[retrocop]

OG
In the link it will be known as a delegation when up and running

[Zacs-Master]

Because the embassy/ delegation will have a far more prominent role post Brexit than the Commission’s current representation in Londn. After the departure, the country will become the bloc’s third-largest trading partner after the U.S. and China.

[ToraToraTora]

but the EU is not a nation, the peoples of each EU nation have their own embassies already.

[jim360]

Even the US recognises the EU as an official institution, as well as its individual members. Why should the UK be any different?

[mushroom25]

//the country will become the bloc’s third-largest trading partner after the U.S. and China. //

rather puzzled by that statement - it's completely at odds with what we're being told about how the UK will be last in the queue for trade deals, seriously disadvantaged, lose access to our biggest market, etc etc etc......

[jackthehat]

I can't really see why it should matter.

[THECORBYLOON]

"The EU has 140 delegations to countries and organisations, including the United Nations and the World Trade Organization."

It's no big deal is it?

[gulliver1]

They are entitled to be here , and here they can stay, just try and get over it, OK.

[ToraToraTora]

gawd elp us TVI is doing Rhymes now!

[Zacs-Master]

I think what you’re asking, Tora, is why can’t we deal with the individual embassies of countries, post Brexit, as the EU isn’t a nation. Which, despite my post above, I’m slightly confused at.

[jim360]

We *can* deal with the individual countries -- it's just that sometimes (often) we'd find it convenient to deal with the entire bloc, and vice versa.

[ToraToraTora]

you think wrong me old china. I just quoted the embassies because that what nations have, TBH they are pretty superfluous most of the time anyway. The EUSSR does not have to have a presence here for us to communicate does it? How much is done face to face anyway? They could have their delegation in Fiji it would make no difference so we can communicate with Brussels as an when, surely?

[THECORBYLOON]

Nations have embassies or high commissions but the EU will have a delegation and it's not pretending to be a nation is it?

[Zacs-Master]

Tora, I can only put it down to ‘diplomatic niceties’. I think Jim has probably come closer to answering the ‘why’ than anyone so far.