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Brexit key cause of exports decline, government data shows (www.thegrocer.co.uk)
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[–] mindlight@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh... Google Nigel Farage, one of the big clowns in the Brexit movement before the referendum. Britain was going to be able to spend millions of pounds each year in healthcare iif Britain left.

He didn't waste a minute the day after the referendum. He was just "Yeah... My work here is done. See ya guys. Good luck." On the question about the NHS (healthcare) he just smiled and said that it was just a theoretical example. And then he left.

it was glorious. By then I really hoped the ones voting yes to Brexit would understand where it was going...but nooooooo.... They still thought it was going in the right direction even though the rats left the ship.

The amount of humor really peaked a year or two ago when British were stopped at the Spanish border. When interviewed they said they were surprised that they had to bring passports. If they knew this would be a result of Brexit they would never have voted yes.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The real fun were the British immigrants( who of course called themseves ex-pats) who lived full time in Spain. Most were retirees that migrated to avoid taxes and extend their retirement funds.

After Brexit, Spain said "okay, you have a year to file as a permanent resident/citizen and setup a tax ID, or you will require a Visa."

So of course, a lot of them didn't follow the new law and were summarily ejected from Spain to Britain. This includes people who owned homes in Spain, and had no legal residences in Britan. They then needed to file for Visas to go back to Spain, and apply for citizenship the long and hard way, which is not guaranteed.

Can you guess how many of them were saying they would never have voted for Brexit if they knew it would affect their immigration status too?

[–] BubblyMango@lemmy.wtf 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who in their right mind would vote for brexit while living outside of britain soley thanks to the EU uniformity?

[–] Wirrvogel@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Who? The people who refuse to call themselves immigrants and instead invented the word expat, you know, to distinguish themselves from the people they were perfectly happy to see hurt by Brexit. Unfortunately (but rightly) the word expat was not the shield they thought it was.

[–] Anekdoteles@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The real fun were the British immigrants( who of course called themseves ex-pats) who lived full time in Spain. Most were retirees that migrated to avoid taxes and extend their retirement funds.

Sounds like tax fraud, because if you stay for a longer time in another country and/or the main part of your life happens in that place, it is very likely that you have to pay taxes in the new home country.

[–] mindlight@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If they live in Spain and pay Spanish taxes, how is that tax fraud?

[–] Anekdoteles@feddit.de -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you sure, they do?

[–] mindlight@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you sure they don't?

[–] Anekdoteles@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, that's why I said, that it sounded like tax fraud. So, now that you distracted from it, back to the topic: Are you sure they pay taxes in Spain?

[–] mindlight@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

As far as I know people move to Spain when they retire because the cost of living is much lower there. So they get their pension from the country they are from and the pay Spanish taxes since the line in Spain.

So they avoid the tax in their home country which often is higher.

It's ok if you want to think that there is an enormous tax fraud going on, it doesn't matter.

[–] zzpza@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If only someone had said something beforehand...

/s

[–] uphillbothways@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if only it had been fucking obvious. (it was) if only people realized that votes have consequences. (they never will)

[–] gajustempus@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

it was - but called "project fear" of "remoaners".

[–] ScrollinMyDayAway@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Want to know what happens when you listen to Russian propaganda? This is what happens when you listen to Russian propaganda.

[–] gajustempus@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

to be fair - it wasn't just russian propaganda.

The super-rich and economic criminals who didn't like all those regulations hindering them from making their highest profits had a good part in it as well.

Just think about Dyson - he was a HUGE fan for brexit, then he quickly set off to Singapore, to let all others suffer.

[–] get_off_the_phone@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

Is there a joke in that comment or did the irony blow past me before I could suck it up?

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

Man, if the UK isn’t careful, soon they’re gonna have to make a nanny state to prevent the nanny state from doing very obviously stupid shit.