A Quiet sad corner

[smashedinductionhob]

That's all. Pop over and sit down quietly if you like.

I suppose a Leave Campaign official website might be better? But that has lots of "spin" whereas the LeaveEU is more honest.

I'm a UK national living in Spain. Been here since 99 but never took Spanish citizenship because, well...why bother? As a European, why pay out all that money and paperwork when I had the right to live and work there? So, I never got round to it until last summer. Finally got all the paperwork in this January and will have to wait about 3 to 4 years to actually get it. So, well past Brexit taking effect. I am very lucky that I am entitled to an irish passport through my mother, just discovered that, thought I had to become a citizen first there. So, I'm applying for my irish passport now too, to cover the probably limbo period when Brexit has happened but I'm not Spanish yet.
I just cannot believe that my life has become so uncertain suddenly. I have a family here, a business, we bought a house here 2 years ago. Now I'm scrabbling around for different passports to make sure I can stay.
Every day there is some more batshit crazy news about Brexit, I've just read Michael Howard saying the government would go to war over Gibraltar. WTAF? I just feel so depressed and anxious and ashamed of Britain and what it has become. I've been away a long time, but honestly it's not the country I used to know. One of the things that made me hesitate about taking Spanish citizenship is that dual nationality isn't allowed, I have to renounce my UK nationality as part of the process and that always seemed a big step before, but I don't even care now. I won't ever be going back to live there. Not now.

I really hope some of you will read this article

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/01/outrage-makes-you-feel-good-but-doesnt-change-minds

smashed I don't really like the article. It just seems like a rehash of the "We're right they're wrong, we need to persuade, we're so rubbish, no-one likes facts and figures any more" navel gazing that I have seen lots of times (probably more wrt Trump to be honest, but still)

bird I agree. We look batshit. Someone asked me about Brexit, or as she put it "Britain leaving the Euro" (this seems to be common misconception, that we are in the Euro), wrt to me saying I would probably move back to the UK in the next couple of years. The conversation went as follows:

She said "I thought Britain was in trouble because of you leaving the Euro, and your economy would be trashed in the next 2 years, are you sure you want to move back?"
Me: "Oh yes we are trashing our economy, yes you're right"
Her: "Why?"
Me: "Well because we voted for it"
Her: "But who stands to benefit, does some section of society benefit?"
Me: "No, I don't think they will"
Her: "So why did you vote for it?"
Me:
Her:

No problem summer, thanks for reading.