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Being a European

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NfkDumpling Sun 07-Sept-14 21:42:56

Now Mamie do you really think it would be any different to the relationship between England and Scotland if the Scots leave the UK?!! Of course we'll still get on. We came to France on holiday before the EU and will come again. We love it. We love the differences. As for trade agreements - that's what we voted for in the first place. A Common Market. Like Norway has. There's no reason why we shouldn't have that again.

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Mamie Sun 07-Sept-14 19:01:42

No, but it would be harder I think Ana. Trade tariffs would undoubtedly have a negative impact on business and the free movement of labour. It isn't just in the UK; Marine Le Pen is gaining ground here too.
Obviously people have always lived and worked in other countries around the world, but I don't think you would have seen this amount of movement before the EU.

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Ana Sun 07-Sept-14 18:33:35

Are you suggesting that if Britain opted to leave the EU all Brits living and/or working in other parts of Europe would be sacked and deported, Mamie? confused

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Mamie Sun 07-Sept-14 18:09:41

So here we are, a French speaking, retired English couple who have lived in France for almost ten years. We are on holiday in the south of France, enjoying a glass of wine on the balcony of our holiday apartment. In the other apartments in the block we have an English speaking German family, a French couple whose grown-up children work in England and a family who live in Poland, consisting of French father and Polish mother, who speak English to each other and have two tri-lingual young children. On the beach below, playing volleyball, there is an English family who live and work locally; the children speak English to their parents and fluent French to their French friends. Everyone is enjoying the sun of a late summer Sunday evening.
What a pity it will be if all of this were to be swept away in a burst of ill-conceived, narrow-minded, self-serving nationalism.
I like being a European.

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