lindal1000
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Tony Blair ..helped broker the Good Friday agreement that effectively ended violence in NI. Wouldn't have happened without him.
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Everything you do in France requires you to list all previous marriages and divorces! OH complains constantly that his ex-wife's name is on all of our official paperwork.
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I'm too young to remember the 60s, but I remember the 70s, which were pretty rubbish..I remember how poor the UK was, I remember it was too expensive to visit France..I have friends all over Europe, I have worked with people from most other EU countries and it has been a really enriching experience. I now live freely in another European country and I can visit all the others as and when I like. Most importantly I have lived all of my life in peace time. I have never known war.I guess all our experiences are different but my life would have been significantly less rich and varied without the EU and I would have had far fewer opportunities than I had. I am only grateful that for the moment at least, whatever the UK does, I will be fortunate enough to live in an EU country. For what it's worth none of the young people I know want out of the EU.
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The exact translation from the article in German.I leave you to decide who's doing what."May had idiosyncratic ideas about how the talks should progress. First thing, she wants to clarify the rights of the three Million Europeans in the UK, and the one million Brits on the continent. That suits well, since it is also the first priority for the EU. She suggested to get this topic out of the way at the End of June, at the next European Council. Her visitors were astonished: just two weeks after the election?"Not a problem for May, the EU citizens shall/should simply be treated like Third-state citizens under british law. For Juncker, a big problem: after all, now they are enjoying many additional rights and those should be preserved as far as possible. That involves solving difficult Problems, not only in terms of residency. For example, health insurance: so far, EU citizens, like any other Brit, are entitled to free treatment by British doctors, in exchange Brits do not pay when consulting a doctor in Berlin or Paris – the bill is footed by the British state."So, if May gets her way, we will be treated as third country nationals, with none of our current rights protected, meaning for many they would not meet the income requirements for legal residence in France.
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I don't think I was claiming that I might be affected ..the link was about reciprocal rights for pensioners, the use of the EHIC and the effects of uncertainty on the current EU workforce in the NHS and social care. I posted it because I thought others might be interested.We will all be affected however if the UK crashes out without a deal.
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https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201617/cmselect/cmhealth/640/640.pdfThis is a link to The Health Committee's report on Brexit and Health and Social Care . In the section on reciprocal health care they conclude "It is in the interest of many hundreds of thousands of British people living across the EU to maintain simple and comprehensive reciprocal healthcare arrangements. The Government’s negotiating objective should be preservation of the existing system of reciprocal healthcare so that EU nationals in the UK and people insured by the UK in other EU countries can maintain their access to healthcare.".It's a long report but worth a read.
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I agree Eurotrash but when you read the Daily Depressed and the Fail they seem to think it is unreasonable of the EU to tell the UK that it cannot alter people's rights retrospectively.
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Yes, as Judith says.. anyone moving now is currently in limbo, not knowing whether they will be pre or post a cut off date. This is what is making it difficult for the NHS to recruit nurses, it means EU citizens in the UK are having difficulty getting mortgages and it is why so many people are applying for permanent residence, even though there is technically no need to do so at the moment.
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PS.. I think it was the odious Mr Redwood who used the term 'bargaining chip' to describe how he saw EU citizens in the UK and UK citizens in the rest of Europe. I am actually quite confident that neither side want to see people who moved legally to another country forced to leave and a deal guaranteeing rights will be agreed. The sticking point will be the date that it comes into force. TM will want it to be retrospective from the date art 50 was declared and the EU want it from the date the UK leaves.. That's why the EU wouldn't agree to the UK's earlier demands. As Barnier said, you can't have a situation where someone who starts a job on the Thursday has completely different rights from someone who started on Friday of the same week.
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I think unfortunately the home office are not fit for purpose. They have been for a long time, nothing to do with brexit..but the extra work they face from 45000 additional applications from EU citizens who never felt the need before has thrown them into even more chaos. At the moment no EU citizen requires any additional documentation to allow them to stay..but many of them are understandably unsettled and want to take control themselves, so the 85 page document is the only procedure the home office has. In answer to your question Chessie, I absolutely want the UK government to guarantee rights of EU citizens in the UK regardless. The organisations representing UK citizens in the EU also want that. They were having meetings with EU representatives long before article 50 was declared, something Dexeu only agreed to a few weeks ago, almost like an after thought.
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MLP 35.4% in our little village..but then you can't generalize from small sample sizes.
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Whoever wins is going to have their job cut out to do anything that they promise. The legislative elections in June will be the test. MLP is no longer the leader of the FN but even if they win more seats in parliament, she will need to form some sort of coalition to do anything. Same could be said for Macron. I think Macron will be more successful in forming alliances..most politicians will refuse to work with Le Pen.
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My biggest fear when I came to France was that I'd be bored. I'd love to have a chance to be bored just for a day! I think everywhere is what you make it. If I had to move back to UK at any point I'd probably find somewhere to go and something to do that would occupy me.
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I don't know whether it's because they can't make a living as such (like I say they always seem to busy), or whether they underestimate the amount of work you have to put in. If you are imagining a quiet life where you sell your fish a chips at a few markets and put your feet up for the rest of the time then it certainly isn't that! Neither is running gites . It's really hard work all through the season where you want to be enjoying the sun.
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There's already a fish and chip van operating in the South of the Dordogne. It parks outside the local bar on Thursday nights and does quite well by all accounts. I've never tried it because like Mint I rarely used to eat it in UK. The van's been around for several years but it's gone through several different owners.
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I agree with you about shabby chic. Never have seen the attraction of car boot sales either..All tastes are different I suppose.When I went back to Uk for a few days I went with my brother in laws mum to look at a new flat. She wants to downsize to a smaller place. The area, just outside of London, is full of these kind of new builds. A large building on a small bit of land with six flats. All quite nice, all with two bathrooms (even the one bedroom one), small, fitted kitchens and not one would give you change from half a million. OH and I watched the program and we have always said that if we had to go back to UK we would probably look around Dorset. There were some nice properties but we would struggle to afford them.
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I think the difficulty with that model Chancer is that it doesn't get you health cover, and if you have a family you need that. It also doesn't cover pension contributions etc. Again a consideration if you have a family. Some of the new arrivals this way have been pretty good at attracting out of season business in the form of winter lets. There seem to be plenty of people around looking for short term rentals at the moment.
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Well most people round here (French) live on the SMIC and that's considered 'enough'. You can easily make the SMIC with gites and bear in mind most people doing it don't have a mortgagee or rent to pay. May not be everyone's idea of a good life but if I had a choice of that or a job in the local factory on the SMIC it wouldn't be difficult.
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Well because despite your doom and gloom predictions it does work for some people and they actually quite like it. The latest lot, though are Parisians..got fed up with life in the city, moved to the Dordogne with their young kids..running gites. I agree it's not everyone's ideal but for some people it works.
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With all these things I think in the end it depends how flexible you are and how prepared you are to adapt. I love my life here, but it isn't anything like I imagined it would be..just as well really. Some people will adapt and some won't. Several of the more recent arrivals are mixed couples,, in that one partner is English and the other French. Met, married and lived and worked in UK but now coming to live in France.
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The sinking ship comment was what I have heard people say who have recently moved. It doesn't apply to me because I left long before the referendum. I think the issue is that if they move now then they will be able to stay after brexit, under the same terms as the rest of us. Wait until the UK leaves and if freedom of movement is restricted it is likely to get more difficult. My only decision is whether I leave any assets at all in the UK or whether I cash them in and bring them over to France. I like the mountains for a holiday but never been attracted to live there. My brother used to have a house in the alps. It was packed during the winter and high summer but outside of those times it almost seemed to shut down. I live right on the border with the Lot et Garone, which is much less affluent than the Dordogne. There are actually more British people living in the towns in the Lot.et Garone than the Dordogne but people seem to forget about them. I do sometimes miss the sea as I used to live in a seaside town in UK. However the beautiful beaches of Arcachon are only 1.5 hours away if I ever the time to go
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I don't know that many people who have gone back because they're broke. There has always been a strong association between the English and Aquitaine. All the bastitde towns were originally built to keep out the marauding English. Eleanor of Aquitaine married the English king to bring peace to the region and it was the English who originally planted the vines in Bordeaux. What you are seeing now is what Theresa May said would happen but in reverse. Everyone rushing to get out before the ship sinks. The association where I learn French has been inundated with new members, so perhaps the new generation of immigrants are different and want to integrate?
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Saw this on Facebook and thought it was very funny.Ma cafetière vient de tomber en panne... D'après Arthaud, c'est de la faute du patron de Moulinex ; Asselineau me renvoie à l'article 127bis de la Constitution pour trouver la solution ; Fillon précise que les pannes sont légales et que je devrais arrêter de boire du café ; Le Pen rappelle que c'est normal puisque la machine a été fabriquée par un ouvrier Polonais ; Poutou accuse Le Pen et Fillon mais ne sait pas comment réparer ma cafetière ; Macron est d'accord ; Dupont-Aignan est scandalisé ; Mélenchon propose de changer la notice d'utilisation ; Cheminade veut délocaliser l'usine sur la Lune ; Hamon offre 600€ à tous ceux qui ont une cafetière en panne ; Lassalle m'invite dans les Pyrénées pour boire une liqueur de chèvre. En attendant, ma cafetière est toujours en panne...
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You raise a lot of really important issues there Idun. I can't compare the two educational systems because I don't know that much, but I do know that dyslexia is under diagnosed everywhere..and can have huge effects on school performance. It's also a general term that can combine all sorts of systems and problems. I have a family member who was diagnosed with dyslexia while at school but despite an expensive public school education in the UK never really got any proper help, other than being told he was disruptive. He only really got properly diagnosed and helped when he was about to fail his second university degree and came across a tutor who recognised his problems.(which were far more than dyslexia), got him appropriate treatment and now he has finally graduated. I also had students in UK whose dyslexia was only diagnosed during their post graduate degrees. They reckon that 10% of the population are affected by dyslexia, so it's definitely an under recognised problem.
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