Mellee07 wrote on Mon Feb 22, 2021 11:07pm:
Of course English people think this. From the very first day after the result of the Brexit vote being announced, they have been told by the rest of Europe you are going to regret this, or don’t expect things to be the same, even though the British Government insisted all they wanted to do is m...
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...ake their own rules to govern their people. It was a witch hunt in every sense of the word and if you don’t get that you need to think again. For the record I am Irish but I still believe the British were and are being shafted.
The British (who want to move to Spain) are being shafted by EU rules which pre-existed Brexit, and which the UK helped to formulate while a member of the EU.
The rules are no surprise.
Britain chose to be a 3rd country, and these are the rules applicable to people from 3rd countries. The same rules apply to Canadians, Australians, Americans .... that list goes on and on.
People are just realising that Boris wasn't being entirely truthful (or was being over-optimistic) when he told everyone that they could have their cake and eat it.