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Originally Posted by passingbat
And of course, before we joined the Common Market, no one from the UK travelled to, or worked in Europe. How terribly oppressed we were back then! But wait... they did!  |
The Europe of now is a starkly different place. Franco is no longer the dictator of Spain and the Iron Curtain has fallen. Countries that require more workers no longer need to look to the UK when they have Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe and Iberia to tap.
So, I'm afraid that when it comes to most British citizens seeking work in the EU post-Brexit, it will be more a case of "Auf Wiedersehen, der Brite!" and less a case of "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet!"
Freedom of movement is a two-way thing.
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Originally Posted by ianch99
Why are you surprised?  |
Maybe he genuinely doesn't understand what freedom of movement is?
Intriguing story of how Saudi Arabia paid for pro-Brexit advertising on the Metro newspaper costing £282k funnelled through the DUP... even though the paper does not circulate in Northern Island!
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To recap briefly: two days before the Brexit referendum last June, the Metro freesheet in London and other British cities came wrapped in a four-page glossy propaganda supplement urging readers to vote Leave. Bizarrely, it was paid for by the DUP, even though Metro does not circulate in Northern Ireland. At the time, the DUP refused to say what the ads cost or where the money came from.
We’ve since learned that the Metro wraparound cost a staggering £282,000 (€330,000) – surely the biggest single campaign expense in the history of Irish politics. For context, the DUP had spent about £90,000 (€106,000) on its entire campaign for the previous month’s assembly elections.
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https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/w...83586?mode=amp