Oh no!! Brexit not going quite as well as hoped

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Mr Celine

Well-Known Member
Thanks for the heads up..
It's just occurred to me that as we've only got one way tickets.

(Not quite knowing date of return yet)

I must check that's not going to cause hassle getting into the EU - what with our only having lowly British passports 😕..

Great..
More pointless stress / hassle.
And for what??

Entering Schengen area at Ijmuiden last month on a one way ticket I wasn't asked about return arrangements.
I was asked if I was staying in NL or just transiting, though I think that was a covid question rather than a Brexit one.
 
Entering Schengen area at Ijmuiden last month on a one way ticket I wasn't asked about return arrangements.
I was asked if I was staying in NL or just transiting, though I think that was a covid question rather than a Brexit one.

Entered France via Cherbourg last Thursday. We'd obviously arrived from Portsmouth and, as it happens on a single ticket. All we had to produce was our passports which were stamped for entry. Mercifully we were not asked for our Covid status as Mrs B had managed to disable the NHS app; too many tries with the wrong password.

We did actually have a ticket back but we're returning via the Dover straight.
 
I was asked how long I was staying in the EU and how much money I had when I visited NL a month ago but wasn't required to provide evidence of either.
 
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mudsticks

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Entering Schengen area at Ijmuiden last month on a one way ticket I wasn't asked about return arrangements.
I was asked if I was staying in NL or just transiting, though I think that was a covid question rather than a Brexit one.

Entered France via Cherbourg last Thursday. We'd obviously arrived from Portsmouth and, as it happens on a single ticket. All we had to produce was our passports which were stamped for entry. Mercifully we were not asked for our Covid status as Mrs B had managed to disable the NHS app; too many tries with the wrong password.

We did actually have a ticket back but we're returning via the Dover straight.

I was asked how long I was staying in the EU and how much money I had when I visited NL a month ago but wasn't required to provide evidence of either.

Thanks, chaps..😇
..
One less thing to worry about.
It hadn't even crossed my mind til Unkraut mentioned it 👍🏼
 
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Unkraut

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how long you been out of the country??? over 15yrs was the rules wasnt it.......why do yuo think that someone who has left the country that long should get a vote???

how do you know all 700,000 would have voted remain?? do you know them all??

I've been away for 25 years now - but I still pay UK tax (no taxation without representation!). A vote as important as Brexit should have been exempted from the 15 year rule. Brexit potentially involved taxation, employment and residency rights, social security, recognition of qualifications.

I listened to some of the leave arguments, and briefly wondered if Britain might be better off outside. Daniel Hannan in particular was promising that existing rights to live and work in Europe would not be affected - he was either lying, or I would prefer to believe mind-numbingly ignorant.

Any ex-pat voting to leave would be voting away their residency rights, in short would be stark staring bonkers to do so.
 

Salty seadog

Senior Member
I've been away for 25 years now - but I still pay UK tax (no taxation without representation!). A vote as important as Brexit should have been exempted from the 15 year rule. Brexit potentially involved taxation, employment and residency rights, social security, recognition of qualifications.

I listened to some of the leave arguments, and briefly wondered if Britain might be better off outside. Daniel Hannan in particular was promising that existing rights to live and work in Europe would not be affected - he was either lying, or I would prefer to believe mind-numbingly ignorant.

Any ex-pat voting to leave would be voting away their residency rights, in short would be stark staring bonkers to do so.

Careful now, I can't see it myself but some might see a ton of personal abuse in that post.
 

jowwy

Can't spell, Can't Punctuate....Who care's, Sue Me
Are you 14 ?

no , but theres quite a few here, that act like they are...........kevin the teenager springs to mind with amount of moaning and groaning on this thread.......some people need to grow up and accept whats done and start moving forward, rather than comstantly looking back.

its like bullseye in here with the " look what you could have had"........posts.
 

jowwy

Can't spell, Can't Punctuate....Who care's, Sue Me
I've been away for 25 years now - but I still pay UK tax (no taxation without representation!). A vote as important as Brexit should have been exempted from the 15 year rule. Brexit potentially involved taxation, employment and residency rights, social security, recognition of qualifications.

I listened to some of the leave arguments, and briefly wondered if Britain might be better off outside. Daniel Hannan in particular was promising that existing rights to live and work in Europe would not be affected - he was either lying, or I would prefer to believe mind-numbingly ignorant.

Any ex-pat voting to leave would be voting away their residency rights, in short would be stark staring bonkers to do so.

How do you pay UK tax?? im guessing your receiving a UK pension or some sort of claim?? therefore yes you should pay tax.....

but the rules had to be set and 15yrs seemed reasonable to many and the UK governement. Some ex-pats are stark staring bonkers, i know a few lol....but to say all 700,000 would have voted and therefore change the landscape is a huge assumptionl, that we can never really get the answer too.
 

Salty seadog

Senior Member
Yay!! More buses.

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