Isn't this conflating "Brexiteers" with "British 'expats'"? Didn't a lot of overseas Brits vote remain? Maybe some Union-Jack-wielding folk in the Costa del Sol didn't, but it feels a bit unfair to malign them all.
Yeah, my bad. That was a bit unfair of me. I think there was a healthy amount of British expats who did vote brexit. And to be honest, I've little sympathy for the ones who did because they tend to be the ones who go to Spain and establish effectively British towns - which is exactly what they batch about happening in their own town (its the hypocrisy I hate, don't worry really mind immigrants sticking to their own culture a bit in a foreign country)
Also, is expat a purely British used term? I can't remember hearing of american expats or german expats. But it is a real word right?
Im not entirely sure why this is news though. People who spend 6 months in the EU must have known before now that lifestyle is over.
This is the start of things though. I don't think we will ever be back in the EU but we will be back in the single market with freedom of movement soon enough.
You have to have been resident in the UK within a certain number of years to vote. 10 or so I think.
Just anecdotally from a couple of people I know, but the long-time, booze-addled, decrepit retirees mostly fall into the British exceptionalist mindset of their boomer brethren in this country.
This rings true, on Brexit, spin and the first coronavirus vaccine:
Matt Hancock: “Because we’ve left the EU, we’ve been able to move faster.”
Head of the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency: “Actually we’ve been able to authorise supply of this vaccine thanks to provisions of European law which exist until January 1st.”
Possibly, but our gov are so shit and behind that they wont have the port and customs systems fully operational until July and will be waving through anything coming from the continent and only checking what it going out of the UK to start with.
"Let me tell you, when yung Rouj had his Senna and Mansell Scalextric, Frank was the goddamn Professor X of F1."
Well, checks are still going to be carried out at Euro ports I guess, as France at least have had their system ready for testing for the last year, whereas we are going to give the UK haulage industry a whole 8 days before Jan 1st as that is when our creaking, shitty, sellotape and string system goes online, LMAO.
I am a big fan that you now need a permit to travel through Kent if you are a haulier, holy fucking lmao what kind of shit solution is that? Fuck the people in charge, and in case you are tory voter reading this, fuck you too.
"Let me tell you, when yung Rouj had his Senna and Mansell Scalextric, Frank was the goddamn Professor X of F1."
The conservatives would have lost a vote in the last week or so if Labour would have voted against them.
I think Labour can allow a deal to pass through abstention. It’s worth noting that if the deal goes tits up it’s best only to have Tory names against it I wonder. If the deal goes well then the conservatives have earnt another 5 years in government anyway.
Thats what happened last night with the vote on tier regs.
A bunch of Tories rebelled, some Labour MPs voted against but most abstained.
Without the whip to vote against the deal will pass. Starmer would be insane to whip against whatever deal they come up with because it is effectively a vote for no deal.
I suspect a vote on a deal will look similar to last night's vote. ERG don't have the numbers to block the deal alone.