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LeckyLes

Posted: Thu Dec 5, 2019 10:02pm

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Posted: Thu Dec 5, 2019 10:02pm

Iqbal49 wrote on Thu Dec 5, 2019 5:41pm:

You got it Les, it was a wind up!

In truth though I have worked with Romanians back in London and have always found them hardworking etc, it's the Roma gypsies that cause the problems.

It seems that whenever there's a discussion around Brexit the topic of mass East European migration to UK comes up. For what it's worth I'm totally anti Brexit and not because of being pro immigration, but as a European I will possibly no longer have unrestricted access around Europe and to stay wherever for however long I want. So it's for selfish reasons and I kind of like being able to travel across Europe unhindered and I feel the Brexiteers have shot themselves in the foot regarding this. I may have got it wrong but the Brexit issue arose through years of anti Brussels feelings and misinformation about how much the UK pays in but gets nothing back, the euro zone crash which the UK never had to bail out and the tens of thousands of Syrian migrants that were supposedly going to swamp Europe and eventually end up in UK, the land of benefits and free health care, it never happened, just a couple of hundred washed up on the south coast.

If anything the Brexit issue has forced masses of East Europeans to flood to the UK before the doors close.

Brexit is a nonsense and just make living in the UK more expensive!

Iqbal, your first post in the thread did seem very straightforward and to the point in demonstrating your point of view, but you have replied in a way that dismisses your original comments and so deserve the chance of being given the benefit of the doubt.

European differences: 

 : Three Spanish, Three French and one Englishman are shipwrecked on a Desert Island.

Three months later one Spanish man has killed the other Spanish man and is now living with his wife. The three French have formed a threesome, and The Englishman ? Well he is still waiting to be introduced to the others.🙂

LeckyLes 

Kelvin1960

Posted: Fri Dec 6, 2019 4:38pm

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Posted: Fri Dec 6, 2019 4:38pm

Iqbal49

Yep, you got me.

Good post !

Kimmy11

Posted: Mon Dec 9, 2019 11:38am

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Posted: Mon Dec 9, 2019 11:38am

jimtaylor wrote on Tue Dec 3, 2019 5:32pm:

We returned our postal votes last Thursday. 

Has anyone else? 

From the people I know, most of them didn't bother to register to vote, and yet they still complain about the possible effects of Brexit. In my view, they aren't entitled to express an opinion.

Hi Jim,

I've spoken to 5 friends in Spain over the last week who haven't voted - 4 of them didn't even register.  

Despite continuing proof that BoJo lies every time his lips move, my friends are relying on him to get a majority in the General Election and then "do the deal".

I said to them, "OK, let's say that scenario comes to pass.  Then we have the transition period, which may be extended to the original 21 months, or may be maintained at 31 December 2020.  If the latter, that gives Bojo's government only 1 year to negotiate a trade deal with the EU.  If agreement isn't reached, then BoJo can say, "I tried....", we fall out of the EU, the Brexiteers get their "hard" Brexit and all that entails, because they simply want us out of Europe, no matter the cost to the UK.  Then we have to conclude a trade deal with the USA..... where's the strength in our negotiating position?"  The responses I received?  Blank looks and shoulder shrugs.

What still surprises me is that so many UK citizens think this election is the end game, rather than the beginning of an end which continues to have the potential to be the worst of all possible worlds.

I'm hoping that the brave Rederendum abstainers - those who genuinely didn't know which way to vote - will have quietly considered the debates, at all levels, and exercise their democratic right in the G.E. to vote for any party except the Tories, especially those who live in Spain: their Pensions and Healthcare depend on it.

Best wishes,

Kim

briret

Posted: Mon Dec 9, 2019 1:13pm

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Posted: Mon Dec 9, 2019 1:13pm

I completely  agree Kim although those few (four of them of which one is now dead) who I know  who voted leave teh survivours wish they had not done so.

Brian

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Carole60

Posted: Mon Dec 9, 2019 1:53pm

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Posted: Mon Dec 9, 2019 1:53pm

Well said Kim 

Villas

Posted: Mon Dec 9, 2019 3:20pm

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Posted: Mon Dec 9, 2019 3:20pm

briret wrote on Mon Dec 9, 2019 1:13pm:

I completely  agree Kim although those few (four of them of which one is now dead) who I know  who voted leave teh survivours wish they had not done so.

Brian

I normally agree with Kim. (because on sensible views, whether or nor I agree).

But...... talking of "dead" friends (I had  who´s idea´s were to live in Spain or other situations within the EU, did not make it (due to not making any country).

I did make it, & without democratic vote..........& could see the misfortune of the UK leading us into (what know´s when). In 2015-2016, & since I have seen & heard the subsequent turmoil........ Let´s see what happens. I hope something comes out of it for the future. (as it goes on.....& on.....etc), that someone in the UK, politically power crazed parliament "onions" in the UK, may envisage a United kingdom and a united Europe and not run for a British splintered UK and the people whom live there. Many have died. Many more, before this is sorted. The future of generations will live in the result of our current "history"

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Kimmy11

Posted: Mon Dec 9, 2019 3:33pm

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Posted: Mon Dec 9, 2019 3:33pm

I think I agree with you Villas 🤔😄  

Kelvin1960

Posted: Mon Dec 9, 2019 7:24pm

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Posted: Mon Dec 9, 2019 7:24pm

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