A disillusioned European :-(
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Dr Jekyll said:
According to some figures I saw last year, there are roughly the same number of French expats in the UK as Brits in France. The difference is that while many of the Brits in France are retired or semi retired, staying in France because it's a good place to sit in the sun and drink wine. The bulk of the French in the UK are here to work, because it's a good place to build a business or hopefully even make a fortune.
We are clearly doing something right.
WERE doing something right. Past tense. A non EU trader working in the city has to pay £100,000 per year for the license to do so. EU citizens pay nothing. Watch the exodus to Paris and its rise to be the new world and European financial centre instead of London.We are clearly doing something right.
I agree with you on most of your points Driller, but you are in Paris, a place renowned even amongst the French for rudeness and dogs
t.Russwhitehouse said:
Dr Jekyll said:
According to some figures I saw last year, there are roughly the same number of French expats in the UK as Brits in France. The difference is that while many of the Brits in France are retired or semi retired, staying in France because it's a good place to sit in the sun and drink wine. The bulk of the French in the UK are here to work, because it's a good place to build a business or hopefully even make a fortune.
We are clearly doing something right.
WERE doing something right. Past tense. A non EU trader working in the city has to pay £100,000 per year for the license to do so. EU citizens pay nothing. Watch the exodus to Paris and its rise to be the new world and European financial centre instead of London.We are clearly doing something right.
I agree with you on most of your points Driller, but you are in Paris, a place renowned even amongst the French for rudeness and dogs
t.Driller said:
What part of the UK are you comparing with FMM?
The area I live in now in South Brittany 10KM from the coast with my home in North Devon 10 miles from the coast. Similar places, more or less, but it's clear that this area is developing well through commercial and infrastructure investment and the UK area is declining. I don't think you can fairly compare Paris suburbs with Bath, fairer to compare it with the area around the North Circular road.I passed close to your place on Saturday and Sunday en route to the David Gilmour concert at Chantilly and I certainly think that Paris needs an M25, all motorways leading onto the Périphérique is insane, but I didn't experience any aggressive or inconsiderate driving although I'm sure its a different place on weekdays...do a few trackdays with Germans on the circuit and you'll be better prepared in future
However my eagle eyed son spotted this establishment in Chantill or Senlis masquerading as a bakery:
So there's always a silver lining!
Steve
Terryg4 said:
mybrainhurts said:
Oh lord, giveth me an wall, upon which I might bangeth mine head, until it doth jolly well hurt...
PS...I'll give the EU ten years until it implodes.
What exactly in Europe will implode? We are Europe?PS...I'll give the EU ten years until it implodes.
It seems to have escaped the attention of millions of people that these are entirely different things.
It's the same thing, they are just EU civil servants managing all that money that is given back to farmers, Cornwall and Wales and the like.
In any case they will fall into insignificance to the £5000 per day lawyers the Government are employing to sort out the extraction of the 3% of EU law. And yes there will be hundreds of them!
Good luck, you have really taken your country back!
By the way , if the UK join the EEA then we will have no say on the laws we will have to abide by, yes it's really taking control NOT!
In any case they will fall into insignificance to the £5000 per day lawyers the Government are employing to sort out the extraction of the 3% of EU law. And yes there will be hundreds of them!
Good luck, you have really taken your country back!
By the way , if the UK join the EEA then we will have no say on the laws we will have to abide by, yes it's really taking control NOT!
mybrainhurts said:
Terryg4 said:
It's the same thing, they are just EU civil servants managing all that money that is given back to farmers, Cornwall and Wales and the like.
Is that all it is? Well, hell, I'll give myself a bloody good thrashing for not understanding that.HMRC alone employs 74,430.
Steve
rb5er said:
If you don't even live in the UK, what is your "view" worth? Nothing at all.
Angela Merkel doesn't live in the UK, but she or her successor has views on brexit that will matter more than yours and many millions, yes millions, like you (Angela Merkel is the chancellor of Germany, that's like a prime minister of the big country the other side of France)OK, France is the country the other side of the English Channel.
OK a prime minister is a stern person in a dress.
The English Channel........forget it.
Steve
It's funny, facts from us, abuse from the Brexiters, sounds very familiar!
Great article here from Nick Clegg that all should read no matter what your views.
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/nick-clegg-bre...
Great article here from Nick Clegg that all should read no matter what your views.
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/nick-clegg-bre...
Terryg4 said:
Just upset at people ruining the country I loved. :-(
The country you loved so much that you turned your back on it to live in another country?The country you loved was ruined by the European Union. The country you loved is now free to trade with the rest of the world. In time, you will learn to love the country you loved once more.
Courage, mon brave, all will be well and you can come back to the country you loved, where you can stand in wonder and witness the inevitable death throes of the European Union's economy from a safe place.
mybrainhurts said:
The country you loved so much that you turned your back on it to live in another country?
The country you loved was ruined by the European Union. The country you loved is now free to trade with the rest of the world. In time, you will learn to love the country you loved once more.
Courage, mon brave, all will be well and you can come back to the country you loved, where you can stand in wonder and witness the inevitable death throes of the European Union's economy from a safe place.
Never turned our backs.The country you loved was ruined by the European Union. The country you loved is now free to trade with the rest of the world. In time, you will learn to love the country you loved once more.
Courage, mon brave, all will be well and you can come back to the country you loved, where you can stand in wonder and witness the inevitable death throes of the European Union's economy from a safe place.
Still love the UK.
Not going to happen for ages if at all.
Simples.
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