How do British Parents feel about...

[TooBigForMyBoots]

...the Brexit vote, given how it has disadvantaged those children without dual nationality?

I'm from NI, so very fortunate that mine still have FOM. I'd be raging if anyone took that away from them.

Edwin will still have no trouble going to study in the Dordogne.

Alfie from Streatham will find it a damned sight harder to get a decent job abroad. WC people have always migrated and traveled for work far more than the middle classes who are doing pretty nicely where they are.

Even before full FoM our membership of the EU enabled unemployed skilled and unskilled workers to work elsewhere in Europe and support their families back in the UK. Boys from the Blackstuff was not fantasy - it was based on a common experience under Thatcher's unemployment regime.

Raging here. An election can't come soon enough. And rejoining but not sure when that will be.

I recently got passports for English born kids. English born myself of Irish parentage and grew up in Ireland. I don't have a UK passport but could if I wanted to.
Its all bonkers and retrograde. Most EU citizens travel on ID cards.

Didn’t say you were, just pointing out your comments about economics. I recently visited the Balearics and noted that transport, supermarkets etc were a lot better than ours. On time buses (that ran mon-sun) supermarkets full of fresh fruit (that looked spectacular), veg and meat and none of the crap that is going on in this country. So just wondering what economic playing field you’re talking about?

Have anyone's DC discussed the costs of Brexit with them?

Im talking about when the Eastern European countries joined the EU. Most countries put certain restrictions in place, but the UK didn't. In my opinion many of the EE countries were not ready to join the EU hence why hundreds of thousands of people moved to the UK. Previously freedom of movement between say the UK and France or the UK and Germany would be much of a muchness. When the EE countries joined it was mainly one way traffic.

Who then?

Probably didn't occur to them because they're earning big bucks as self employed electricians, builders, beauty therapists etc years before your children will see a single cent from their sociology degrees.

@TooBigForMyBoots

Explain how WC kids have to pay more now?

@Comedycook I found EE immigration a positive. Young people, good language skills, good work ethic. The odd bad apples that the right wing tabloids delighted in telling us about, but no problem in my area. In time they’ll become the French and the German you don’t object to.

@fullbloom87 you’re not using your full faculties tonight.

Where about in the uk do you live?

Fucking furious. I studied and worked in Europe when I was younger. I am so annoyed and disappointed that my daughter will not have the same opportunities.

I think you live in cloud cuckoo land.

@fullbloom87 London

I never said a single thing about EE people. I'm talking about sheer numbers emigrating to the UK versus British people emigrating there based on economic reasons.

@fullbloom87 I was making a play on your username and the fact you’re not quite following the conversation. Unless you’re trolling etc.

Exactly the same here 😐

Londons a big place. Which district? It makes a huge difference to what your experience with EE. Migration will be like.

@Comedycook at 21:46 you were talking exactly about EE.

Someone made a derogatory comment about WC children so I politely explained to them they were wrong on their assumptions.

Yes but I'm not talking about the people...I'm talking about the economics. I have nothing against any nationality. I'm making the point that the emigration between the UK and EE countries was only moving in one direction. Whereas freedom of movement between countries with comparable economies is more balanced.

I am furious on behalf of my children and grandchildren who have had many opportunities stolen at the insistence of the Brexit lunkheads. And I am furious with all of those who are too ignorant, many wilfully so, to acknowledge what they have done to this country. They should be in prison but it will be the House of Lords for them.

The point of the matter is EE migrants were flooding the uk and yet the only uk residents leaving to work and study in the EU were the most privileged. Left behind were the WC who had to compete for housing, education and jobs from EE migrants. This is not something that is understood well by people who are privileged enough to Work, travel and study in the EU.
I didn't vote in the referendum and I understand grievances from both sides. I don't really care either way if we're in or out. I'm just explaining what I've been told by people I know who voted leave.

The UK voted to close it's door to the world.