They could find new markets like we are going to do according to Brexiteers but that isn't going to be good news to the UK businesses that trade with them now as EU partners in the short term.

Still, it's only British jobs we are talking about and mostly jobs that will be on the lower end pay scale wise.

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This is what I don't get. Low wages. I thought we were supposed to have a legally binding minimum wage?

The best thing we could do policy wise, and something the EU can't affect, would be to regulate the housing market via rent controls and suppressing its inflation because, let's face it, the reason a lot of people are struggling is not because of the wages it's because the housing market has been taking the financial p1ss out of them for over 20 years now.

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Yeah I agree to a certain extent, but putting my lefties hate on for a moment (God I feel dirty) what is really needed is lots more social housing,now I agree with the right to buy schemes,but the stock should have been replenished, buy all parties.

always a Norwood boy, where ever I live.

So,lets take Spain as an example in relation to your observation that Brit expats " are more than largely self-sufficient and have insurance".

The Simap trade union said that non-Spanish EU nationals in Alicante, where Britons are by far the largest group, now accounted for 15% to 20% of people treated in local hospitals.

"Spain's health service is quick, free and offers a wide range of services," said Dr Juan Benedito of Simaptoday. "It is not surprising that people come here."

"...The biggest population of Britons, however, lives in Alicante province, along the long stretch of coast from Denia to Torrevieja. There is little glamour – and no princesses – here. Incomes are low, and the black market, English-speaking economy has attracted a legion of ill-prepared chancers trying to live off their – sometimes invented – skills as plumbers, electricians, hairdressers, gardeners, pool cleaners or labourers."

..."As the financial crisis in Spain worsens, the expat community is facing increasing problems with homelessness.

A growing number of British expats living the dream in Spain are losing their jobs as a result of the financial crises and are unable to keep up their mortgage or rent payments. Every day, an average of 159 householder are evicted for non- payment of rents or mortgages, a high number of whom are either vulnerable or have dependent children.

Former chef John Fraser emigrated to Spain from Inverness and was renting near Malaga, having found a jobs in a local bar. After being let go, he was unable to keep up his rental payments and is now on the streets after spending a few nights sleeping on the beach under a boat.

In terms of welfare benefits,interestingly, in a majority of the richer EU countries (ie the ones where most Brit expats are) I believe there are more Brits claiming welfare there than their nationals here..

In terms of your comments about immigrants to EU,I understand your personal view about them staying (I doubt shared by anything like all Brexit voters).Whether many of the best and brightest from E Europe,so many of whom have enriched our tax base in recent years and relatively so few of whom have claimed benefits ,will choose to stay here in a climate of growing intolerance and prejudice may be another matter post Brexit.

Catching the zeitgeist of the 'post truth' society.

Overseas investment in Britain is drying up:

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"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02