If we vote for Brexit what happens

Yolina

kabayiri wrote: »

I've just checked and that GP record qualifies you for a special badge

Oooooooh I hope it's a glittery one :rotfl: And in the shape of a unicorn.

You pay all your taxes you say? You need to have a word with a few of the resident experts on here...you're not working the angles enough!

I know, I'm a right mug aren't I

kabayiri wrote: »

Blimey. I was accused of that as a "Scaggy Norverner coming down to London taking the jobs" back in the past.

Hmmmm you've given me an idea there... by virtue of being French (and from some way down that country) I'm therefore more of a southerner than any British southerner :rotfl: So I can just tell them all off for stealing the jobs?

Catapa

CLAPTON wrote: »

The pound once had about parity to the Euro : hence the pound is much stronger than the Euro.

The ups and downs of the Pound against the currency of our major trading partner are very costly. The Euro is well above its launch rate in 2001 against Sterling and strengthening.

Thrugelmir

BobQ wrote: »

Why any French citizen would want to live here for 20 years

Low tax rates and convenient travel home on Eurostar.

CLAPTON

Catapa wrote: »

The ups and downs of the Pound against the currency of our major trading partner are very costly. The Euro is well above its launch rate in 2001 against Sterling and strengthening.

I would struggle with the idea that both the ups and the downs are both very costly.

Looking at Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and many others : is the high rate of the euro a major benefit to them ?
has it led to high employment rates, high business activity etc?

Yolina

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Low tax rates and convenient travel home on Eurostar.

Eurostar only good for the Paris area, utterly useless for where I need to go to see the parents.

I didn't come here for the tax rate; I came here with the Erasmus programme for the last year of my degree, then got an MA and did some other post-grad stuff, and then just decided to stay and work here rather than go back to France. Is that really so hard to understand? I like it here, I have good friends here but I do have a duty of care to myself (rather to a particular country, be that France, the UK or anywhere else).

CLAPTON

Yolina wrote: »

Eurostar only good for the Paris area, utterly useless for where I need to go to see the parents.

I didn't come here for the tax rate; I came here with the Erasmus programme for the last year of my degree, then got an MA and did some other post-grad stuff, and then just decided to stay and work here rather than go back to France. Is that really so hard to understand?

Yes, it is very easy to understand
about as easy to understand as democracy and the wish to make our own laws

kabayiri

BobQ wrote: »

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I am so glad that the under 50s have a more enlightened view of being in the EU than the reactionary forces of xenophobia.

I think a lot of people are plain old scared of job competition to be honest.

It's been going on for ages. It used to be Irish coming over; or Scots coming down South.

There's less hysteria about professional classes like Yolina than lower paid white and blue collar types.

Maybe it's sheer numbers which spooks people.

I watched some recent tv interviews from Polish telly, and they were concerned about refugees coming in and taking their jobs. It's not just here.

mayonnaise

Yolina wrote: »

No thanks I'll keep my French passport. The UK's been my home for over 20 years, but I'd rather be able to easily up sticks and settle in another EU country if I so wish.

Can't you have dual citizenship?
A UK passport to keep the Angry Little England Supremacists at bay, and a EU one for life in the largest free trade area in the world?

Thrugelmir

Yolina wrote: »

Eurostar only good for the Paris area, utterly useless for where I need to go to see the parents.

I didn't come here for the tax rate; I came here with the Erasmus programme for the last year of my degree, then got an MA and did some other post-grad stuff, and then just decided to stay and work here rather than go back to France. Is that really so hard to understand? I like it here, I have good friends here but I do have a duty of care to myself (rather to a particular country, be that France, the UK or anywhere else).

My reference was really to London being France's 6th largest city. In the EU or not. Little will change in this regard.

Immigration to the UK is nothing new. On one side of my family my great grandmother was French and on the other my grandfather German. Both came here for economic reasons. They both adopted to the English way of life.

Tromking

BobQ wrote: »

Fortunately for Yolina, we will probably vote to remain in the EU. Why any French citizen would want to live here for 20 years given the way they are treated by the minority of Brits I do not know.

I am so glad that the under 50s have a more enlightened view of being in the EU than the reactionary forces of xenophobia.

You`re obviously not referring to me, as I`m not 50 until June.
To read your and Yolina`s posts you`d think dear old Blighty was on the cusp of a Kristallnacht scenario rather than a run of the mill generational vote on whether we want to be in a trading block or not.
We`ll leave real xenophobia and intolerance toward 'furreners' to mainland Europe....it`s rife over there.