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Grinner said:
So realistically how long do I have to buy my house in Italy as an EU citizen and enjoy free movement?
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@Grinner, just saw this - you have the next year. In that time, you need to get residency. You don't need to buy a house before you apply, you can be a renter. We don't keep free movement though - just the right to live in Italy all the time.

UK driving licence needs to be swapped for an Italian one, too. After Brexit you'd have to do the test, and it's only offered in Italian.
 
Penna said:
@Grinner, just saw this - you have the next year. In that time, you need to get residency. You don't need to buy a house before you apply, you can be a renter. We don't keep free movement though - just the right to live in Italy all the time.

UK driving licence needs to be swapped for an Italian one, too. After Brexit you'd have to do the test, and it's only offered in Italian.
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Wow how have they got so many restrictions while remaining in the EU? Old Nige said that was impossible.
 
Sassy Colin said:
I think it has always been there, under the surface, it's just that people have been less confident to express it recently. They certainly had no trouble expressing their views up to the 80s.

Odd thing is the racism being directed at football players with darker skin, when you would have thought the ire would be directed at Europeans. Or something like that.
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There are people who think that Brexit will result in British people of Asian heritage being deported. That rant against Baroness Warsi that was posted here yesterday is a great example of the level of ignorance.

If we have Brits who think that India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are in Europe, well .....
 
Penna said:
There are people who think that Brexit will result in British people of Asian heritage being deported. That rant against Baroness Warsi that was posted here yesterday is a great example of the level of ignorance.

If we have Brits who think that India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are in Europe, well .....
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I wonder if these idiots somehow think the EU compels us to take quotas in these countries? Who knows.

It reminds of a BNP (I think) election flyer we got through the door years ago that said something like 'It isn't just Asians and Africans we want to go home to their own countries, we also want Eastern Europeans to go too.' Equal opportunities racists, hating some whites as much as people of other hues!
 
Wumminator said:
We have to accept it as a nation.

Just look at the news and what is happening. You have to be wilfully ignorant or extremely away from the 'average' day in Britain to be unable to see how racism, xenophobia and hatred is on the rise.
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Not just in the UK by the way.
Brexit has been and is a factor but social media is another contributor.
 
Penna said:
There are people who think that Brexit will result in British people of Asian heritage being deported. That rant against Baroness Warsi that was posted here yesterday is a great example of the level of ignorance.

If we have Brits who think that India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are in Europe, well .....
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Jippy said:
I wonder if these idiots somehow think the EU compels us to take quotas in these countries? Who knows.

It reminds of a BNP (I think) election flyer we got through the door years ago that said something like 'It isn't just Asians and Africans we want to go home to their own countries, we also want Eastern Europeans to go too.' Equal opportunities racists, hating some whites as much as people of other hues!
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How Brexit Happened:
Twitter said:
Wearing a beret in London: Nobody cares
Wearing a beret in Sunderland: Somebody yelled out of a car 'bonjour!'
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A woman once asked me to look at her poorly dog for her when I was wearing a suit on the Metro. She said she thought I ‘just looked a bit like a vet’.
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Mind you, she always was anti-establishment.
 
Jippy said:
I wonder if these idiots somehow think the EU compels us to take quotas in these countries? Who knows.

It reminds of a BNP (I think) election flyer we got through the door years ago that said something like 'It isn't just Asians and Africans we want to go home to their own countries, we also want Eastern Europeans to go too.' Equal opportunities racists, hating some whites as much as people of other hues!
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They definitely think the EU compels us to take quotas in these countries.

Unless that was the point of the post.
 
matherto said:
They definitely think the EU compels us to take quotas in these countries.

Unless that was the point of the post.
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There isn't a quota of refugees per country (and I am all up to get them all)?
 
Textbook gammon.

'Let’s get back to gallons, ounces and yards' says Grantham reader

Letter

Right, let’s get back to some normality. Petrol in gallons, crisps in ounces not grams and carpet in yards.

Fire-doors labeled ‘exit’ and not a stupid green running man, temperature in degrees Fahrenheit, beer cans in pints not litres, apples in pounds not kilos and our passports back to colour blue.

On TV quiz shows youngsters still can’t differentiate between millimetres, centimetres, grams, kilograms or kilometres.

When Napolean introduced the metric system in1791 it was for the French, not us islanders who already had a better system.

Thank God we didn’t adopt the Euro and driving on the right.Now the Reds are back under the bed the country can reboot itself towards a self- confident independence like we used to enjoy.

The EU was becoming a normality for our country. Just imagine if Jeremy Corbyn had become our country’s terrifying normality; our grandkids would never have forgiven us.

Interestingly, the Oxford Thesaurus of English defines insanity as the opposite of normality.

Rod Hatherill

Lodge Way, Grantham

https://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/n...rZNNNHDyw-4utH3KH2iKqKvMYWuBgwXHsKCjAx4bO3qfk
 
Jippy said:
Textbook gammon.

'Let’s get back to gallons, ounces and yards' says Grantham reader

Letter

Right, let’s get back to some normality. Petrol in gallons, crisps in ounces not grams and carpet in yards.

Fire-doors labeled ‘exit’ and not a stupid green running man, temperature in degrees Fahrenheit, beer cans in pints not litres, apples in pounds not kilos and our passports back to colour blue.

On TV quiz shows youngsters still can’t differentiate between millimetres, centimetres, grams, kilograms or kilometres.

When Napolean introduced the metric system in1791 it was for the French, not us islanders who already had a better system.

Thank God we didn’t adopt the Euro and driving on the right.Now the Reds are back under the bed the country can reboot itself towards a self- confident independence like we used to enjoy.

The EU was becoming a normality for our country. Just imagine if Jeremy Corbyn had become our country’s terrifying normality; our grandkids would never have forgiven us.

Interestingly, the Oxford Thesaurus of English defines insanity as the opposite of normality.

Rod Hatherill

Lodge Way, Grantham

https://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/n...rZNNNHDyw-4utH3KH2iKqKvMYWuBgwXHsKCjAx4bO3qfk
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IQ vampire of a post.
 
Jippy said:
Textbook gammon.

'Let’s get back to gallons, ounces and yards' says Grantham reader

Letter

Right, let’s get back to some normality. Petrol in gallons, crisps in ounces not grams and carpet in yards.

Fire-doors labeled ‘exit’ and not a stupid green running man, temperature in degrees Fahrenheit, beer cans in pints not litres, apples in pounds not kilos and our passports back to colour blue.

On TV quiz shows youngsters still can’t differentiate between millimetres, centimetres, grams, kilograms or kilometres.

When Napolean introduced the metric system in1791 it was for the French, not us islanders who already had a better system.

Thank God we didn’t adopt the Euro and driving on the right.Now the Reds are back under the bed the country can reboot itself towards a self- confident independence like we used to enjoy.

The EU was becoming a normality for our country. Just imagine if Jeremy Corbyn had become our country’s terrifying normality; our grandkids would never have forgiven us.

Interestingly, the Oxford Thesaurus of English defines insanity as the opposite of normality.

Rod Hatherill

Lodge Way, Grantham

https://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/n...rZNNNHDyw-4utH3KH2iKqKvMYWuBgwXHsKCjAx4bO3qfk
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What's wrong with the current system?
 
Adisa said:
What's wrong with the current system?
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Boomers still don’t understand it and it’s foreign innit.

On a serious note, switching back to imperial measurements would be such a disaster. Metrification happened in the UK nearly 60 years ago so theres only a very small minority left who actually experienced it and were taught it growing up.

I‘d wager that the majority of the gammons who bleat on about it wouldn’t have the first clue how much a gallon is in real terms nor would they be able to explain how many ounces in a stone. If you told them that they were going to pay £5.76 a gallon for Diesel they’d shit the bed.
 
I still think in imperial measurements. I have no idea how many kilos i weigh unless i get on the scales, i do however know hiw many pounds in a kilo, how many ounces in a pound, how many pounds in a stone, furlongs, chains and feet.
 
Stanley Road said:
I still think in imperial measurements. I have no idea how many kilos i weigh unless i get on the scales, i do however know hiw many pounds in a kilo, how many ounces in a pound, how many pounds in a stone, furlongs, chains and feet.
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But you know how much you weigh in stones and pounds by ...:smirk:
 
Jippy said:
Textbook gammon.

'Let’s get back to gallons, ounces and yards' says Grantham reader

Letter

Right, let’s get back to some normality. Petrol in gallons, crisps in ounces not grams and carpet in yards.

Fire-doors labeled ‘exit’ and not a stupid green running man, temperature in degrees Fahrenheit, beer cans in pints not litres, apples in pounds not kilos and our passports back to colour blue.

On TV quiz shows youngsters still can’t differentiate between millimetres, centimetres, grams, kilograms or kilometres.

When Napolean introduced the metric system in1791 it was for the French, not us islanders who already had a better system.

Thank God we didn’t adopt the Euro and driving on the right.Now the Reds are back under the bed the country can reboot itself towards a self- confident independence like we used to enjoy.

The EU was becoming a normality for our country. Just imagine if Jeremy Corbyn had become our country’s terrifying normality; our grandkids would never have forgiven us.

Interestingly, the Oxford Thesaurus of English defines insanity as the opposite of normality.

Rod Hatherill

Lodge Way, Grantham

https://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/n...rZNNNHDyw-4utH3KH2iKqKvMYWuBgwXHsKCjAx4bO3qfk
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Well that's triggered my PTSD from Christmas Dinner conversations from my Brexity grandparents...
 
Regarding metric / Imperial I wouldn't mind seeing things double labeled
Keeps both sides happy and USA still use non metric measurements so eople having that in mind is no bad thing (that said still ton / tonne and gallons are not the same)

I would like to think that the inevitable economic upheaval and removing the right to live and work in 26 other countries for Millions of UK citizens comes down to a bit more than units of measurement

I always tell my estimators to tripple check anything we quote in the states because if NASA can balls it up we certainly can

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/
 
Pexbo said:
Boomers still don’t understand it and it’s foreign innit.

On a serious note, switching back to imperial measurements would be such a disaster. Metrification happened in the UK nearly 60 years ago so theres only a very small minority left who actually experienced it and were taught it growing up.

I‘d wager that the majority of the gammons who bleat on about it wouldn’t have the first clue how much a gallon is in real terms nor would they be able to explain how many ounces in a stone. If you told them that they were going to pay £5.76 a gallon for Diesel they’d shit the bed.
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More like £6.50 for a gallon because you can bet that stations would take the opportunity to raise prices amidst all the confusion.
 
sun_tzu said:
dont forget the pound will probably have tanked by then as well - lets call it £8 a gallon - a pound a pint - simple
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Yep. Plus tax. So that's £12 a gallon.

fecking £12 a gallon...Christ.
 
Pexbo said:
Boomers still don’t understand it and it’s foreign innit.

On a serious note, switching back to imperial measurements would be such a disaster. Metrification happened in the UK nearly 60 years ago so theres only a very small minority left who actually experienced it and were taught it growing up.

I‘d wager that the majority of the gammons who bleat on about it wouldn’t have the first clue how much a gallon is in real terms nor would they be able to explain how many ounces in a stone. If you told them that they were going to pay £5.76 a gallon for Diesel they’d shit the bed.
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Gammons want their egg and chips. No French restaurants after Brexit.

Well, we won’t be coming back to Eastbourne then

LETTER BY A READER

Published: 10:05 Tuesday 24 December
From: Rita Bradley
Cemetery Road
Sheffield

I’ve recently been to Eastbourne with my friends for an off-season break, when prices are a bit cheaper.

We’re all of an age when we hope things will stay more or less the same as before.

We like to have a good time and call ourselves ‘us girls,’- though none of us will see 70 again!

We thought we’d take a look at the new Wish Tower Café which has just been built.

The previous, temporary one had been alright but it got a bit crowded due to lack of space.
We thought the new one would be much better.

Dear me!

It was nothing like we imagined it would be or anything like the Wish Tower Café we knew and loved.

Instead it was what I can only describe as a lardy-dardy posh nosh establishment for those with a bit of cash to spare.

Us girls took one look at it and knew it was not for the likes of us, nor for ordinary working class families, people who just want a coffee and a sandwich or a nice plate of egg and chips.

Many people will be put off by seeing a cocktail bar, French signs and fancy food at high prices when all they want is a nice cup of tea and a slab of fruit cake.

Us girls piled through the door marked ‘privee’, thinking it was the toilet, so what’s wrong with English world ‘toilet’!

My friends and I must say with sadness that we will not be coming to Eastbourne again.
The town’s new style café makes us feel unwelcome here.
I’m sure many people will feel the same as we do.

https://www.eastbourneherald.co.uk/...3VYhIibkJWy0gmajJjh4f0QeA_tA83S4L8B_6vMMhF_ng
 
Jippy said:
Textbook gammon.

'Let’s get back to gallons, ounces and yards' says Grantham reader

Letter

Right, let’s get back to some normality. Petrol in gallons, crisps in ounces not grams and carpet in yards.

Fire-doors labeled ‘exit’ and not a stupid green running man, temperature in degrees Fahrenheit, beer cans in pints not litres, apples in pounds not kilos and our passports back to colour blue.

On TV quiz shows youngsters still can’t differentiate between millimetres, centimetres, grams, kilograms or kilometres.

When Napolean introduced the metric system in1791 it was for the French, not us islanders who already had a better system.

Thank God we didn’t adopt the Euro and driving on the right.Now the Reds are back under the bed the country can reboot itself towards a self- confident independence like we used to enjoy.

The EU was becoming a normality for our country. Just imagine if Jeremy Corbyn had become our country’s terrifying normality; our grandkids would never have forgiven us.

Interestingly, the Oxford Thesaurus of English defines insanity as the opposite of normality.

Rod Hatherill

Lodge Way, Grantham

https://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/n...rZNNNHDyw-4utH3KH2iKqKvMYWuBgwXHsKCjAx4bO3qfk
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This is almost as bad as some guy in a video in a pub in the UK and of course good old Uncle Nigel F. was there and the guy interviewed said that after Brexit the UK could start up the British Empire again.

 
dogrob said:
This is almost as bad as some guy in a video in a pub in the UK and of course good old Uncle Nigel F. was there and the guy interviewed said that after Brexit the UK could start up the British Empire again.

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Why stop there.
Why not go back to Victorian times when we had Workhouses, Poorhouses, no NHS or Welfare State and when we sent little boys to sweep chimneys, from the inside.
Good old days....
 
That letter reads like a Maureen Lipman spoof.
 
Buster15 said:
Why stop there.
Why not go back to Victorian times when we had Workhouses, Poorhouses, no NHS or Welfare State and when we sent little boys to sweep chimneys, from the inside.
Good old days....
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I am actually glad I live and work in Germany, fine will need a new Permanent Residency Permit when Brexit is over despite having had one before the changes made in the early 2000´s regarding no longer need ing one due to the EU.
 
Jippy said:
Gammons want their egg and chips. No French restaurants after Brexit.

Well, we won’t be coming back to Eastbourne then

LETTER BY A READER

Published: 10:05 Tuesday 24 December
From: Rita Bradley
Cemetery Road
Sheffield

I’ve recently been to Eastbourne with my friends for an off-season break, when prices are a bit cheaper.

We’re all of an age when we hope things will stay more or less the same as before.

We like to have a good time and call ourselves ‘us girls,’- though none of us will see 70 again!

We thought we’d take a look at the new Wish Tower Café which has just been built.

The previous, temporary one had been alright but it got a bit crowded due to lack of space.
We thought the new one would be much better.

Dear me!

It was nothing like we imagined it would be or anything like the Wish Tower Café we knew and loved.

Instead it was what I can only describe as a lardy-dardy posh nosh establishment for those with a bit of cash to spare.

Us girls took one look at it and knew it was not for the likes of us, nor for ordinary working class families, people who just want a coffee and a sandwich or a nice plate of egg and chips.

Many people will be put off by seeing a cocktail bar, French signs and fancy food at high prices when all they want is a nice cup of tea and a slab of fruit cake.

Us girls piled through the door marked ‘privee’, thinking it was the toilet, so what’s wrong with English world ‘toilet’!

My friends and I must say with sadness that we will not be coming to Eastbourne again.
The town’s new style café makes us feel unwelcome here.
I’m sure many people will feel the same as we do.

https://www.eastbourneherald.co.uk/...3VYhIibkJWy0gmajJjh4f0QeA_tA83S4L8B_6vMMhF_ng
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The word toilet is derived from the French word toilette, so she's a fecking idiot anyway.
 
Jippy said:
Gammons want their egg and chips. No French restaurants after Brexit.

Well, we won’t be coming back to Eastbourne then

LETTER BY A READER

Published: 10:05 Tuesday 24 December
From: Rita Bradley
Cemetery Road
Sheffield

I’ve recently been to Eastbourne with my friends for an off-season break, when prices are a bit cheaper.

We’re all of an age when we hope things will stay more or less the same as before.

We like to have a good time and call ourselves ‘us girls,’- though none of us will see 70 again!

We thought we’d take a look at the new Wish Tower Café which has just been built.

The previous, temporary one had been alright but it got a bit crowded due to lack of space.
We thought the new one would be much better.

Dear me!

It was nothing like we imagined it would be or anything like the Wish Tower Café we knew and loved.

Instead it was what I can only describe as a lardy-dardy posh nosh establishment for those with a bit of cash to spare.

Us girls took one look at it and knew it was not for the likes of us, nor for ordinary working class families, people who just want a coffee and a sandwich or a nice plate of egg and chips.

Many people will be put off by seeing a cocktail bar, French signs and fancy food at high prices when all they want is a nice cup of tea and a slab of fruit cake.

Us girls piled through the door marked ‘privee’, thinking it was the toilet, so what’s wrong with English world ‘toilet’!

My friends and I must say with sadness that we will not be coming to Eastbourne again.
The town’s new style café makes us feel unwelcome here.
I’m sure many people will feel the same as we do.

https://www.eastbourneherald.co.uk/...3VYhIibkJWy0gmajJjh4f0QeA_tA83S4L8B_6vMMhF_ng
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I was actually buying it right up until the ‘privee’ part. Definitely spoof.
 
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