EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

Albert Huber clearly originates from Germany.

https://www.standard.co.uk/business/business-news/staffing-crisis-pied-a-terre-michelin-lunches-b941928.html

'So, erm, that ridiculous bodge that you tried to sell to the British people as a solution to the "Brexit", well, erm, that needs to go.'

'But how am I going to do that when "Brexit" depends on it?'

'...'

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jun/22/jeffrey-donaldson-only-nominee-for-dup-leadership

I don't laugh at the misfortune of Brits abroad.

I do. If they voted Brexit, I will happily throw their bags onto the special "Fuck Off Back Home" train. Just like they imagined they would be doing to all the immigrants in Britain. Thick twats.

Eats roots and leaves...

You know, our post isn't that slow.

NO HABLO ESPANOL!!!!

am i doing it right? :-D

Has it been established that costa del mongs voted for leave or is this based on the ones that the media pumped up and put in front of a camera.

This research seems to suggest oversea voters moved away from cons before and after brexit.

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/52513

put that on a bobble hat then

I think putting Michael Gove in charge of convincing Scotland to embrace the Union is the signal I need to move to Edinburgh and cross my fingers for my new passport.

What do I need to do to get a vote in the next Indy ref?

"The University of Sussex research team surveyed more than 3,200 British expatriates immediately after the 2019 general election via the Britons Voting Abroad Facebook page, the EU-wide citizenship rights group British in Europe, its national sub-groups, and the three main parties abroad.

The survey showed a definite trend from EU-based expatriates away from the Conservatives who suffered a catastrophic drop in a share of the vote from a fifth in 2015 to a sixteenth in 2019.

The survey reveals that 95% of EU-based expatriates who voted in the 2016 referendum favoured Remain over Leave while three-quarters of EU based expatriates claimed Brexit definitely influenced their voting choice in 2019.

Many Remainers defected to Labour or the Liberal Democrats with fewer than one-fifth of Remainers who supported the Conservatives in 2015 voting for the party again in 2019."

I thought that might've let them off too but it was a Facebook survey. Are the actual Brexit voting figures available for Brits abroad?

Odd scenes at Wembley today - the English crowd cheering Scotland (also part of the UK... for now), losing to a European team.

I just want some consistency

I thought that might've let them off too but it was a Facebook survey. Are the actual Brexit voting figures available for Brits abroad?

Wasn't it that the non residents weren't allowed to vote in the referendum?

See you're basically fluent.

Ah I was suckered in by "Sussex Uni" and skimmed past the Facebook data source... slightly more dubious now.

Read somewhere else that 80% of brits in the EU are of working age, think we can #debunk the little englisher brexit voter, down the cafe wearing a union jack stereotype.

costa del mongs

You can do better.

Oh yeah they are twats, just don't feel like playing the "more shitty feelings" game.

They find out how "loved" they are once they return, that will be "punishment" enough :)

On a serious note, the UK gov fucked over the Brits abroad. May could have protected them and that is just nasty.

Like Nigel Dodds of the DUP quitting his job to work full time in the HOL to "promote the union".

Good luck with that... :)

The DUP is a laughing stock here.

DUP voters were fine with the backstop, and the angry hardline ones are going to the TUV. They will be losing a lot of seats next Stormont elections.

tiny violin :)

It is also dawning on some people that perhaps England doesn't love them back...

5 years since this shitshow, managed to mostly let go of my anger, but honestly... it is all going as badly as predicted and in some EU countries they have residency deadlines (I don't agree with, most are quite relaxed, but May could have prevented this...) and the EUSS deadline is not extended (why? no idea...)

All easy fix issues, but no, we aren't worth anything.

It is at least heartening to see the Brits abroad and the EU group here working together. Seeing ordinary people stick together is actually genuinely uplifting :)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jun/23/eu-citizens-in-uk-face-28-day-notice-if-they-miss-settled-status-deadline?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

So now you at least get a notification if you haven't applied to EUSS.

I wonder how effective that will be, as my partner and I have 10+ years of HMRC tax records but never got a letter.

Can they now really find people? I imagine it will miss people in shelters, homeless people...

It's something I guess?

I suspect the big demographic that will get missed is younger adults who assume that because they were born here they are UK citizens.

Yes, that is definitely going to be a problem.

DUP losing seats to the TUV isn’t progress - if it happens, it will be highly problematic.
Back to the extreme polarised positions of the past.
Not good.
I’m sure it must seem odd to people not from here that the DUP are more moderate than the TUV 😁