Returning to Blighty
I jokingly commented after the Brexit referendum that instead of “A place in the sun”, the obvious TV programme for afternoon viewing should now be “A place in the Sunderland housing estate”. Imagine the format; a beautiful, bubbly estate agent shows returning expats from the warmer parts of the EU what their money will buy them back in the UK. It was a joke but it seems to be coming true.
The Daily Express has now realised that there are actually quite a lot of people who can no longer afford to stay in Spain and are returning to the UK. This is apparently the Spanish government’s fault and the obvious answer is to boycott holidays in Spain.
Luckily for the Daily Express Turkey is not in the EU, so its readers have one place within reach they can go on holiday to. Because the same pressures forcing UK immigrants in Spain to leave also apply to other EU countries, not least because of the huge cost of health insurance.
I should however also point out that very many expats are remain supporters and they not only saw this coming but lobbied like mad to try to stop the worst consequences. They were, like every lobby group and industry I can think of, totally ignored by the government.
You might hope that eventually people might realise that nearly all the problems associated with Brexit come down to that fact, the government not only abandoned any attempt to get a good deal, it deliberately ignored any lobbying by interested parties. It asked for a clean cut, hard, slash and burn, ideologically pure Brexit and it got it. But strangely the consequences are the fault of the Spanish.
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