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Off Topic Brexit has made living in France impossible ...

Discussion in 'Sunderland' started by Smug in Boots, Apr 11, 2021.

  1. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    That's all fair enough mate and I'm not saying it's to get at us, just a pain after living there so long without it all.
     
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    123Daveyboy Well-Known Member

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    Just out of curiosity why do you think so.
     
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    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    Have you noticed any of this attitude mate, I hope not but it's what concerned us a little. This must be very worrying if you're a Brit expat with a bar in these places.

    "A Spain holiday warning has been issued as UK tourists are slammed in Majorca, Malaga and Tenerife. UK tourists have been warned to "get out" of some of Spain's top holiday destinations after a wave of protests across the country."

    https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/tr...paign=continue_reading_button#google_vignette

    "Over the years, Amsterdam has tried various ways of clamping down on nuisance tourism, from a “stay away” campaign to dissuade British lager louts, a ban on smoking cannabis in public in the centre, and 2am bar closing times.

    Now it has opted for a new approach, using typical Dutch bluntness in an online quiz that aims to see off those who want to visit the historic city for anything less than its tulips and Stroopwafels."


    https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2...tries-to-deter-troublesome-visitors-with-quiz
     
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  4. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    We've now had many years after Brexit and it's been a total disaster, never mind how France, Greece or Germany are doing. That doesn't help and our 'immense benefits' weren't based on any of that.
    Farage boasted that Brexit would be an absolute Godsend, then blamed the Tories and Labour when it wasn't.

    Now he's claiming he has all the answers and the means to make Britain great again ...

    ... but chooses not to tell anyone how, yet people say they'll vote for him.

    FFS, it's like a scene from Blackadder <doh>

     
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    Pure River Slut Well-Known Member

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    This. If we had growth the size of the losses we’ve had from Brexit people would say we’re booming and Reeves is a genius. If we had migration the levels we had pre Brexit people would say we’d smashed. Let’s not be stupid eh? Let’s just get it back and go back in. I noticed Burnham said he’d do it. I don’t think Starmer has the knackers to tax wealth and go back in to the EU, so I hope we end up with Burnham or Starmer grows some.
     
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  6. clockstander

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    Evidently France outperformed us economically last year , some benefit getting Brexit done was , The European Union needs to become The Common Market again , Andy Burnham or someone else will oust the Quisling Party Splitter in the next twelve months , the sooner the better imo.
     
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  7. BishopSAFC

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    People voted for a common market for trade not a Ponzi scheme it became.
     
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  8. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    To be honest I've absolutely no idea what people voted for, I don't think they do either.
     
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    Mate of mine voted Remain, not because the EU is perfect, but because it was ok and the alternative was so unclear. The biggest thing he dislikes about the EU is its yearly accounts haven't been signed off for decades.
     
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  10. alan reed

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    Almost, but Blackadder was a comedy and Farage isn’t.
     
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