I've been married to my Portuguese wife for 20 years. Been together 21 Voted leave for a cheap divorce. They didn't send her home
Ah you see where you went wrong is you got married. Mrs No7 & I are 28 years now. Been engaged for 19 years. Don't want to rush into it, need to make sure we are compatible.
Been married 56 years. Bought first house (3 bedroomed detached cottage with 1/2 acre garden) in 1971 for £3,450, still live there.
Did not realise si many in this chatroom had foreign wives too. Lovem comes from Philippines and I believe Top Shandy has a Filipina wife too.
My late dad’s school days best friend was with his partner from the war days until his death in the 1990s, without getting married. I think they had the same outlook as you.
I would have been wed for 50 years this April gone. We made it to 46 years before the big C intervened.
Yeah it varies quite a bit country by country, especially when it comes to tax. I did spend quite a lot of time researching it before but then decided it was pointless as I couldn't go for a long time.
The media narrative is about English Nationalism being bad. I am a proud Englishman. My wife is a proud Portuguese. We are both nationalists and apparently I am right wing nasty man married for 20 years to a black Portuguese woman. lol. There are much more "mixed race" couples on the council estates than in suburbia and I count British black/Asian (people of colour) married to white (any nationality) in that. A lot of the Polish women are attracted to black chaps. Its not the hell hole of racism the media want you to believe.
I think you underestimate the power of a British passport in global travel!. Much easier to get Visas to anywhere with a British passport. Outside of the EU especially.
Most of British, including myself and my kids, could easy enough get an Irish passport if we so wish to benefit from EU wide travel.
So you're saying the soft power is gone? I know Brits can find work abroad easier than people from Africa or Asia. Those old "faux" hierarchies are still in place no matter what we hear. My circle is not just working class. that is where I lie but my friends? most didn't ride the 90s escapism / hedonism route and were a little (couple of years to 4) older than me and were more old school, head down, get things done and they work all over the world no problem.
I've spent most of my working life as a nomadic freelance engineer working on multinational projects worldwide. My post was with regards to working in the EU post brexshit **** all to do with soft power whatever that may be.
And you're still working in it? What is your problem with Brekshit? You're still working in it or not? you are here to sign a few papers more? Whether you think the whole EU BS is sacrement or not the reality for most lower down the ladder folks in this country is that it f***ed them royally either by "globalisation" or just allowing employers to pull in loads of workers that would work for the min wage instead of the UK market rate "as was." That a section of society wants to believe it was all old fuc***rs that voted out is no surprise, and neither is the "educated" folks saying that out voters were all thickos with no idea.........however they all had more idea because they were either in those jobs or in circles of many that were royally f***ed over!. But hey ho. that 0.1% of full on racists in this country gives the narrative some credence so lets run with it and 10 years on......still running with it. Calling voters liars when they are telling you what has happened to them is what lost that vote and what is continually losing votes. If people are telling you what actually happened to them you cannot call them liars. They are telling you facts.........that happened to them! This will not change until those in power actually admit or understand that their "view" (spin) of what happened and still happens is not the truth. Even now the "we need care workers because the Brits don't want to do it." This is the middle class passing off without an ounce of irony that the Brit kids are too good for this, but the "foreigners" aren't while they bang on about racism or xenophobia? Why are they so accepting of Brits being above this kind of work? How do they pass this against their other narrative of Xenophobia of non Brits? My wife works in care. It is not paid but how come those that call out equality seem to try and ignore that they are also saying Brits are above this work?
What on earth is all that about? Are you alright? That totally irrelevant rant has nothing to do with UK citizens working in the EU post brexshit. I'm retired, living in the Netherlands with dual nationality and well placed to recognise the failure that brexshit is. It's a view widely shared by a majority in the UK.
