I left to take up a job in a Union that was formed to make us all able freely to do so. Nothing worse than those who leave Scotland to work in England or Birmingham to live in London. A change of postcode to work in a place that I liked in a house that I could afford.
I, and thousands like me, despite all the allegations of desertion and divorce are bound inevitably and forever to the UK because of our, in many cases, 50 years or so of paying into that club with taxes and NI contributions. Many of us are still bound by law to continue paying those taxes to Britain, even though in many cases we are not allowed to vote for or against the government which controls our financial destiny.
How has it affected us? The pensioners amongst us, and there are many, and not all retired to come here, recieve the bulk of our pensions in sterling from the UK. Since the vote in 2016 when the pound took a dive as a result, our pensions have been devalued by 20%. We only keep our heads above water because, those of us who worked here, of our small French pensions. We take no holidays, except for a week on the Atlantic coast in a chalet, off season. We can’t afford to go anywhere else, certainly not to England. My own extensive travels are funded by others and I make no profit from them, only reimbursement of expenses.
I don’t know what the future holds for Britain outside the UK, nobody does, I can only express an opinion, and my opinion is that things will go very badly for the country in general. Many of the leavers in this thread seem to think that we won a war and so everybody will look after us, expecially the Yanks. If you think that that is true and there really is a special relationship, you’d better think again. It is a term little used or recognised elsewhere. If the US has a special relationship with anybody it is with Canada and Japan. And look how they have been betrayed in the last few days, Canada with tariffs and the tearing up of agreements, and Japan with having a bombshell dropped on them regarding US troop exercises. I said a little earlier that Trump’s antics, for it is him in both cases, that has done this himself and he won’t always be there. You may say he speaks for the American people, well yes but not all of them, not even a majority because of their flawed voting system, but the people who voted for him believe that he stands for the insular inward looking we don’t need anyone else attitude that I see in the, equally slight, majority that brought about this Brexit fiasco.
I want it to work for Britain, I want her currency to be strong again, why would I not? I depend on it for my livelihood, but I am crossing my fingers, not holding my breath.
Cheers Dennis.
There just were not enough concrete facts available and that was why I voted as I did. Yes, I voted remain, but haven’t gone on and on about the fact that we left, despite folk on here saying that ‘we remainers’ are doing just that, I just accepted it and to be honest at my age (67) it will make no difference to me whatever happens as my time has gone and I have lived most of my life in the EU and have done very well with it. To me (and I could be wrong) most of the noise on here at least appears to be coming from folk who have got what they voted for yet are still not happy and that is what really gets me confused. 
