A lot of British people just want to go and do the same things they do in England but in a nicer climate.
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A lot of British people just want to go and do the same things they do in England but in a nicer climate.
Stanley Road's in that video.
Theresa May wants more time, until the end of February, to revive her deal. This thing was clearly dead in December if not before, we should be well into plan B by now.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47187491
Fiddling whilst Rome burns.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47187491
Fiddling whilst Rome burns.
Sometimes I think this is how we'll all be when the climate is finally fecked and it's too late to actually fix.
Negotiating with a foregone conclusion. A great look indeed, worst PM ever.
Wants to head back to commons for a her deal or no deal vote late march ideally
Wonder if things might have been different if benns amendment had not been pulled on the first vote (this would have legally blocked no deal I think)... But if course Corbyn played his blinder and pressured it to be dropped so they could hand a bigger political defeat to may... And every day no deal becomes more probable
Both sides have been incredibly Partizan throughout. Embarrassing really
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...y-benn-withdraws-amendment-to-may-brexit-deal
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Lots of things are embarrassing but few worse than Brits abroad.
We often go on cruises around the Mediterranean. When in port you can pick out the British people miles away.
Often overweight and often badly dressed waddling around.
Like turkey's voting for Christmas.
Get on with it!!
May to make plea to MPs for time to change deal
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47187491
May to make plea to MPs for time to change deal
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47187491
100K jobs could be lost in Germany, in the case of a hard Brexit - a recent study suggests.
Some of those immigrants to Spain are a bit well, thick aren’t they.
Never understood why there are called ex-pats instead of immigrants, it’s not like we call the Polish community ex-pats is it. It’s like British people living elsewhere hold themselves in some sort of weird high regard.
Never understood why there are called ex-pats instead of immigrants, it’s not like we call the Polish community ex-pats is it. It’s like British people living elsewhere hold themselves in some sort of weird high regard.
Yeah my bad, it was more said out of frustration that anything eles. But having said that I do think and I'm sure @devilish has mentioned something similar that on the whole boomers have completely abandoned the idea their kids will have a better life than they did. Which seemed before(Although I could be totally wrong here as usual)to be somewhat a driving force for the previous generations.By the way, not all us Boomers are stupid, you know.
Cornwall is beautiful in the summer. The weather here isn't that terrible, certainly not bad enough to fill up other parts of the world with wetherspoons and awful architecture as far as the eye can see.
No, no he isn't
Now imagine how many it’d be in the UK..
Maybe it's the fault of the Spanish authorities who allow this but I don't know enough to be too critical. What I do know is that it's not just the English who do it, it's also the Irish.
Actually "Colonial Masters" is the preferred term.
A fair few of the UK pensioners who spend the winter in Spain probably have little interest in Spanish life and culture. They want a warm climate (low heating bills) and cheap food (of the sort they'd eat in the UK). If they are over UK state pension age, they get free healthcare (at the moment).
I can't see the Spanish missing that too much because most of them probably don't put much into the economy. They don't winter in Spain to spend a lot of money there.
Disgusting. There are few things more embarrassing than Brits abroad.
The term 'Ex-pat' is also the absolute height of arrogance.
'He was clearly against Brexit as well'.
Must make his opinion invalid then.
To be accurate, "ex-patriate" is a person living in another country who intends to return to their original country at some time. "Immigrant" is a person who makes a permanent move. Most of these Brits in Spain are ex-pats, because they have no intention of settling there for good.
The problem is that the term "immigrant" is used pejoratively in some circumstances. Most of the young Eastern European workers in the UK are ex-pats, as they don't want to stay forever - they firmly intend to return back to their own countries at some point. However, many Brits would incorrectly refer to them as immigrants.
Most of the British 'ex-pats' who bought houses in this area of France since the 90s have mostly gone back home leaving only those who really integrated into the french way of life so there is a Brexit bonus.
While this is strictly true, this isn't the use of the terms that I have heard from British people, either here in the UK or abroad.
I'm sure there are but I honestly can't remember a single time I have ever heard British people refer to themselves as Immigrants. And I don't mean Brits in Dubai or Saudi who are there for the high pay packet but Brits I've met in Canada/ USA/ Australia (and I assume NZ, though I've not been) who almost uniformly refer to themselves as expats, even when they've been there for decades and have absolutely no intention of returning to the UK. I've just come back from Australia and there are so many British doctors there. Some there for decades, married, have kids, no intention of a return. Yet still call themselves ex-pats and the British community as a whole ex-pats.
And the flip side is, as you pointed out, that 'immigrants' from the 'wrong countries' are rarely, if ever called ex-pats, even when they intend to return to their countries.
Immigrant has taken on a pejorative slant which means I've found Europeans in general but especially Brits struggle to refer to themselves as such.
I agree with you @africanspur. As it happens, oates and I are now immigrants and we embrace the label!
Ha, indeed! I was an immigrant to the UK when I came and were I to return to Australia, I would be hoping to make this move permanently as an Immigrant too.
The life of a nomad.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...hZjzeN__Pc-51grsMAQ5_LsfAUayBpEATmU9RZL9nTrxM
Hard Brexit impact on different parts of Europe.
Americans abroad are one
In this instance then 'ex-patriate' includes those who intend to return to their original country in a coffin, right?
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I think you're supposed to be alive when you return, but maybe it's a fluid definition!In this instance then 'ex-patriate' includes those who intend to return to their original country in a coffin, right?
Whether to use the word immigrant or emigrant depends on the location of the speaker rather than the subject. So for example, if my cousin moved to France then I, in England, would call him an emigrant, but a French person would call him an immigrant. Both would be correct.
Well, yeah, but what on earth does that have to do with anything posted in the last day or so?
anything goes in this thread atm.On that subject though, my girlfriend the other day is the first person I've ever heard use ex-pat who isn't British or Irish when referring to people from Curaçao in the Netherlands. I always thought it was a term solely used by Brits and Irish. I, on the other hand just call everyone immigrants. I'm an immigrant and so are my parents but then I've also never heard any Canadian call themselves an ex-pat.
So you’re happy that people have gone back home to their own country?
I'm happy that the people who didn't even attempt to fit in to the local way of life went back home.
What would be fitting into the local way of life?
Making an effort to talk to local people in their language, not having all your food delivered by Asda, for example.
The plethora of GIFs just screaming to be used for this response.
Ive lived in Germany for almost thirty years now and have never once called myself an Ex-pat, i´m British living in Germany end of story and have integrated myself as well.
This viewpoint is often used to bash leave voters as xenophobes and racists. Interesting times we live in.
How you managed to twist that round to that is even more interesting. Makes zero sense.
I can quite safely say i dont ever want to fit into dutch life. I dont want to eat shit food, i dont want to eat at 6pm on the dot, i dont want to complain all day about everything, i dont want to eat chocolate sprinkles on bread for breakfast, i dont want to eat a sandwich with a knife and fork, i dont want to moan about being too busy while doing not much, i dont want to eat lunch at 12 on the dot and i dont want to be ultra racist.
It’s just interesting to hear that kind of thing from an Englishman abroad. Nothing more to it