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 So last night we had dinner in London with two friends and their friends, it was a posh restaurant in the West End.   The couple were ardent Brexiters, not our cup of tea, but they were there.   The wife, Brenda, was complaining about the paperwork they needed to fill out now to stay in France, where they had bought a house nearly 20 years ago.   

They were idiots because they could have obtained 20-year resident permit, before Brexit. but they did nothing now they are limited to stays of less than 180 days during any 365 days period.   They were pissed because France was treating them like foreigners.

I really did not like them and I had an almost visceral dislike for Brenda who I thought was a very unpleasant and angry person.  So I asked her if she had voted for Brexit, and she proudly said that she had, and would do it all over again, so I simply said, so what are you complaining about, you wanted to be out, you are out, consider yourself lucky to be able to stay even 180 days a year, they could limit it to 90 days..

She did not appreciate, but of course what Brexit meant to her was to keep the pesky foreign out of Britain, not keeping the Brits out of Europe.

Idiots!

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