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Britain: "Screw the EU. We're sick of following your regulations and welcoming your people into our country just to steal our jobs from hardworking British workers and scrounge off of our NHS and welfare state. But we still want to trade freely and come live in your countries whenever we feel like it, because we're massive xenophobic hypocrites who think the entire world still revolves around us."
France: "Fruckoff."
"We don't wanna be in the EU anymore!"
"Okay, then you'll be treated like people who aren't in the EU anymore."
"No, wait..."
Articles like this are so disingenuous. UK news has been reporting things like this for several years now, always trying to make it sound like it’s us mean old continental Europeans who are forcing our evil rules on the poor blameless Britons. As opposed to being the exact thing they themselves voted for. Hello and fuck you from sunny Portugal, dear Brexit voters!
As a British person who spent several years living and working in EU countries before brexit and is now unable to - I don't think I'll ever stop being furious at the ignorant bigoted fucks who voted away the wonderful freedom of movement we shared with our neighbours. Useless slack-jawed gibbering wankers.
You have been permanently banned from c/Conservative.
So disappointed if that’s real and they followed us from Reddit
This is going to be very much an instance-dependent thing.
Nah, check the username.
LOL I actually had someone do that to me on Reddit. Saw some random post of mine they didn't like and permanently banned me from a sub I never once heard of.
I am genuinely sorry you have been fucked over ☹️
I don't think it was the British people with French homes that voted for brexit...
You'd be surprised.
I personally know a guy who lives in Spain and owns a house in France, and he voted for Brexit. The stupidity here is ridiculous.
What did the pro brexit British people think they were voting for?
They unironically voted to stop foreigners from moving to 'their' country...
I personally know of two couples who did this. It's totally Leopards ate my face shit
It absolutely was.
Spain did this first and most certainly idiots living in Spain voted against their own needs because they really didn't think that there would be consequences.
Wait, there are consequences to Brexit and things have changed?!
Man, this thread is full of dickheads. Even if, say, only 30% of these people voted Remain, that's a lot of people who deserve some sympathy. To damn a whole group of people when a substantial number share the exact same opinions as you is truly thoughtless.
I'm a remainer in a leave-majority area, for what it's worth. May as well tell me about the "consequences of my actions" too!
You can feel sorry for roughly 45% of the state of TX while still staying clear of that shithole.
As a Texan, I understand...
No sympathy for deliberate stupidity and pride-based sense of entitlement.
Edit: I misread OP's comment. Yeah, for those who voted Remain, geez, sucks to be you, and I understand (source: Did not want Trump to win.)
But the people I am talking about are the remainers who didn't have that.
I am a remainer and I approve these messages
Oh. Sorry, I misread. You're right.
But anyway.
I have a small suspicion that if Leave won, it's because not enough Stay people go out and vote.
And those who did vote, yeah, that sucks. But that's how "democracy" works (in quotes because I know there was a lot of external manipulation.)
Turnout was actually pretty good. But there was external manipulation, illegal spending, plus a ton of shifting goalposts, with no confirmation vote once the real Brexit "deal" existed. Pre-vote, people were told we'd be able to be like Norway, as unbelievable as that sounds now. Wild how a 52/48 result was taken as confirmation for the hardest Brexit possible. It truly sucks.
I'm no ornithologist but I don't think that's a peacock.
Saying goodbye to their life in France, where they were paying around £2,574 (€3,000) in taxes every year,
So these people who were rich enough to own a second home wanted to spend more than 50% of their time in France, but were paying the vast majority of their taxes back to the UK?
No wonder the laws got tightened.
Did you read the article? The couple quoted spent about 140 days and now can't spend more than 90.
'And I would've gotten away with it too, ecxept for those meddling consequences!'
Oh no, somehow they no longer hold the rights and privileges of being a part of the EU!!! What evil monsters did that to them?
If this is anything like what happened in Spain, then they had every opportunity to change their status and avoid any issues.
A substantial part of them applied for French citizenship after Brexit. If they received it, these are fine.
It's funny to see the others crying over it.
Alternative headline:
"Brits F**k Around, Find Out"