German Brits

[Bubbles]

And what effect was this, precisely?

Enough of what?

Ask them.

I voted remain.

[Bubbles]

I think there is more to this story than we are being told.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4190826/Grandmother-married-Briton-27-years-deported.html

[Bubbles]

She was deported because she was out of the country for over two years.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39099574

This has been going on for years her applying and being rejected, long before the brexit referendum was thought of.

Not many spouses leave their partner for that length of time, even to look after parents.

Two years is a long time.

That's what the issue was, and seems to be why she was deported.

No reason to think it would effect anyone from Europe ( or anywhere else in the world for that matter) because it seems to have been because she left her husband and children for a long period of time.

Hardly an example of post brexit vote victimisation, and the shape of things to come.

[Harrowby Hall]

Rose

You wrote:

No we haven't, we've been in it since the 1970's, people were unhappy with the effect of it. What effect? What do you mean by this?

I voted remain and I talked to a number of people who voted to leave. What was clear to me is that the two chief reasons for voting leave were:
(a) "the country is swamped with foreigners claiming welfare benefits"
and
(b) "we don't rule ourselves any more".

In most instances, further attempts to elicit information produced no concrete examples, merely hearsay or even statements like "well, Nigel Farage says so ..."  I might add that the same people liked going abroad for their holidays and bringing back as much "duty free" as they wanted.

I agree with jeremyp, the overall impression is that we (or the Conservative government) have thrown in the towel. Mrs May's approach to all this seems somewhat Panglossian.

[ippy]

Yes we are. That is exactly what we have just done with respect to the EU.

In your opinion.

ippy

[wigginhall]

Best comedy line of the week.  Millions were promised to the NHS, instead of paying the EU.   But now the chancellor is saving up billions, to deal with the 'uncertainties caused by Brexit'.    Come on, you have to laugh.