Moving to Spain: what happens if the UK leaves the EU? - Page 25

Thanks Kimmy. 

Your contributions have been factual and insightful.

You and I have both repeated some facts and some inference (not opinion). There is a limit to such repetition and I also think this thread should be closed. We were told it was. It then continued.

Partly it is my own fault - I do not need to respond. I find some posts too tempting :>)

There are already other threads about Brexit.

We bought in Spain last year.  The Spanish government has stated that they will make every effort to ensure the situation with Brits will not change.  We are in Moraira and there are so many Brits here they would not be stupid enough to make it difficult.  I read at the weekend that many wealthy Brits are buying in Spain as they fear a Labour government more than they fear Brexit.  The only negative effect that I can see is the fall in the pound so money transferred to Spain buys less Euros.

Oh boy. I think this may be a wind up. Nonetheless, I'll take the bait.

'The Spanish government has stated that they will make every effort to ensure the situation with Brits will not change.  We are in Moraira and there are so many Brits here they would not be stupid enough to make it difficult. '

Great, but the deal will not be between the UK and Spain it will be between the UK and the EU. Spain will abide by EU law and EU requirements - whatever they may be. 

'I read at the weekend that many wealthy Brits are buying in Spain as they fear a Labour government more than they fear Brexit..'

Mail on Sunday? How many is 'many'? What evidence do they have for this? What relevance is this? 

'The only negative effect that I can see is the fall in the pound so money transferred to Spain buys less Euros.'

Do you mean the fall in the pound that has happened or do you expect further falls? Some commentators suggest that currency adjustments were needed and not really much to do with potential aspects of Brexit. Of course, your Euros will buy you more pounds, so if you expect further falls in the pound put your money in a Euro account. Falls in the pound make British exports more competitive. 

However bad a Labour government could be, we could vote them out after 4 years, we're going to be stuck with Brexit and seriously could we have a worse government than the one we have now? Britain is a laughing stock.

' ... seriously could we have a worse government than the one we have now? '

Assuming this is in regard to Brexit, I have a genuine question. 

This is on the basis that the referendum was held, with a 52% leave vote, the majority of the Commons voted for that referendum, the majority of the Commons voted to trigger Article 50 and both major parties campaigned in 2017 on honouring the referendum result and leaving the EU. 

Given that position, what do you think a different government or PM would have done that would have been better?  

A better government would have acted on the interference and illegalities. If this had been a mandatory referendum it was have been declared void. It’s only because its status was advisory that the law didn’t apply. However shouldnt a question of this enormity be answered with a totally honest process? 

'A better government would have acted on the interference and illegalities.' I am taking it you want all parties investigated and you are not being biased?

OK. Then assuming the same outcome, what could a different government have done differently?

Yes I would want all parties investigated. And a fresh referendum under the mandatory rules. A clean fight, not one that was tainted by misused data, over spending and deliberate lies. A mandatory referendum, because it is binding, has a fully actionable set of plans. This is how the Scottish referendum was run. 

'Yes I would want all parties investigated. And a fresh referendum under the mandatory rules.'

Ok, great. That did not happen and the Opposition did not call for that, nor has it called for a second referendum.

Given that the result stands, what do you think a different government could have done better?

It's all getting very interesting now and it might make a lot of exparts wake up and get themselves legal and pay there dues instead of using the NHS AS A BACKSTOP.