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[Sutton]

Our side business is growing meat to export. The french are one of the UK's biggest customers. They are a nationa of meat eaters and are still buying from us. A devalued pound means we make more here £ for lb and as long as we don't rely on too many imports that suits us.

[Mick Dempsey]

It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good.

[5thelement]

If there where any provable benefits from Brexit you would think that the politicians in charge and Farage would be patting themselves on the back, banging their drums and saying “I told you so”. 
The silence is deafening.

[Sutton]

12 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good.

 

10 minutes ago, 5thelement said:

If there where any provable benefits from Brexit you would think that the politicians in charge and Farage would be patting themselves on the back, banging their drums and saying “I told you so”. 
The silence is deafening.

What citizenship are you likely to have in the next year or so?

[5thelement]

3 minutes ago, Sutton said:

 

What citizenship are you likely to have in the next year or so?

I have a British passport and a French residency card. I can apply for a French passport in 10 years if I passed the examination requirements.

[Sutton]

5 minutes ago, 5thelement said:

I have a British passport and a French residency card. I can apply for a French passport in 10 years if I passed the examination requirements.

Brexit is fait accomplis. I'm personally only interested in local politics (and non-corporate international economics) but was curious why you expats are bringing it up again, that's all.

[5thelement]

1 minute ago, Sutton said:

Brexit is fait accomplis. I'm personally only interested in local politics (and non-corporate international economics) but was curious why you expats are bringing it up again, that's all.

I’m not an Expat, I’m an immigrant living and working in France.

Perhaps we experience some of the difficulties that Brexit has caused an see it little clearer from our side. 
I certainly thought that there would be something to shout about after this length of time, it doesn’t appear so.

[Sutton]

2 minutes ago, 5thelement said:

I’m not an Expat, I’m an immigrant living and working in France.

Perhaps we experience some of the difficulties that Brexit has caused an see it little clearer from our side. 
I certainly thought that there would be something to shout about after this length of time, it doesn’t appear so.

French politics is not a pantomine like the UK. But then, I don't subscribe to the 5th Republic and haven't had a passport in over 25 years. Local issues are all that matter. Family, friends, landscape, culture. What can lowly citizens do about the Ukraine, currency traders, corporate greed and tax avoidance?

[5thelement]

6 minutes ago, Sutton said:

What can lowly citizens do about the Ukraine, currency traders, corporate greed and tax avoidance?

Individualy, not very much.

Its hard enough trying to get Greenmech to export me a 6” chipper at the minute.

[Big J]

It's rapidly heading towards the situation where there will be so many exemptions and exceptions to the immigration rules for shortage workers, that the UK might as well have freedom of movement. It will be freedom of movement in all but name, but strictly in one direction. 

 

What Brexit has done is effectively close the door on 27 different nations to the young of Britain. 

 

We are here in Sweden on my German passport. Given our modest financial position and my determination to continue being self employed, this is the only way that we're here. My wife (having only a British passport) has no right to live and work here except as my spouse. 

 

It's absolutely insane that this situation is still being defended. Doubly so given that the powers that be in the UK know that the population is effectively trapped and more and more policies are pushed through that target benefit at the rich whilst removing basic rights from the less wealthy.

 

As others have said, being on the outside looking in gives a fresh perspective. Brexit is a mortal self-inflicted wound on Britain.