This confuses me. Don’t you live in Slovakia now? What’s with the ‘me’?

Wouldn’t Brexit make your life much more complex?

I was rather more thinking take advantage of freedom of movement then shut the door behind you.

How appropriate.

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Living down here does have some advantages. At least you can see them cry.

And with the same result !!

I remember those days, I can only assume you do not.

Visas, long passport queues and most tricky of all currency controls. You could take limited cash with you

Getting to work was difficult and mostly those I remember doing so were au pairs.

As you will know, getting to work in the US for any prolonged period is tricky. Sure it can be done but not easily. Presumably it will be like that.

Me too, my memory of being a guest worker in West Germany was of interminable bureaucracy.

It took me months of trekking from office to office and while working night shifts.

You still have to satisfy the checks of the country you are going to, but FOM is simple compared to what existed previously and effective for the unemployed to move to high employment areas.

That is all it is, the market working.

I disagree. Taking 5 minutes for a visa every 2 years is not difficult.

And if you can't fill in an online form or know someone to help you then it's probably not advisable to move to another country.

If there were queues at immigration it won't stop people visiting Greece or Spain for their holidays. People put up with flight delays all the time, for example.

But the great thing about the human race is it learns to adapt to changing conditions. The tourist visa fee pays for any extra computers, staff or more space to handle EU/non-EU people.

Not for me

My father got friendly with a German soldier when stationed there after the war. We took our holidays in Germany and used to drive there. Most of the time the only Brit car on the roads. Not surprising considering how complex it was but, as we were so unusual, everyone was especially helpful.

We also drove to Spain, that was soooooo painful. Lovely people, horrible bureaucracy and actually quite frightening.

Well I managed !!

Pro USA & Israel

My view on the Tory party.

I think the behaviour of some of the senior Tories is pretty disgraceful they are putting their personal ambitions ahead of the country.

There are a number of ministers who it is believed hate this deal and yet they have not resigned. There is talk that 5 of them will meet next week and identify changes they would like in the deal (PR exercise).

Of course what is going on is they are dragging this out under the cover of "loyalty to the leader" whilst hoping that the back bencher's stab May in the back. They can then push themselves as the next leader and scrap the deal. They are very aware that he who wields the knife is never the next leader.

Meanwhile the backbenchers are playing their own little game, plenty of hate for the deal but not many letters going in, again because they are "loyal". I wouldn't mind if they were but it is all BS they want her gone.

All this adds up to dragging this affair out because when it comes to it May will not have the numbers. Normally the Tories are good at "getting rid" and we need that now otherwise it will be Christmas and May will still be kicking the can down the road.

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