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EU states could take revenge for Brexit by kicking out a million British expats, Brussels report warns
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 4:09 pm
by Dusty
Re: EU states could take revenge for Brexit by kicking out a million British expats, Brussels report warns
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 4:17 pm
by Devil
Scuttlebutt!
Re: EU states could take revenge for Brexit by kicking out a million British expats, Brussels report warns
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 4:20 pm
by ApusApus
Load of rubbish!
Shane
Re: EU states could take revenge for Brexit by kicking out a million British expats, Brussels report warns
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 4:36 pm
by Ramone
Hudswell,
Good post!
Re: EU states could take revenge for Brexit by kicking out a million British expats, Brussels report warns
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 4:58 pm
by geoffreys
Hudswell wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2017 4:32 pm
It must be true it's in the Guardian as well
European Technocats pooping themselves and desperate to hold their failing club together. It states that individual countries will have to decide on the arrangement after Brexit. Quite why Cyprus would make it diffcult for the many thousands of British Expats, pouring thousands into their economy and taking into account the many thousands of Cypriots living in the UK, is frankly beyond me. As devil,so eloquently puts it "Scuttlebutt", i do like that word....although Horse Manure is also appropriate I think.
As I understand it approx. 1 million Cypriots live in the UK.
If we go they go, simples.
Geoff.
Re: EU states could take revenge for Brexit by kicking out a million British expats, Brussels report warns
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 5:29 pm
by memory man
Geoff...........
According to the 2011 census, Cypriots living in UK
are as follows....
UK residents born in Cyprus (2011 Census)
England: 78,795
Wales: 1,215
Scotland: 1,941
Northern Ireland: 344
Just over 80,000
Re: EU states could take revenge for Brexit by kicking out a million British expats, Brussels report warns
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 6:29 pm
by kingfisher
El tel- quite so, and can lead ultimately to Compulsive Repetitive Argumentative Posting (disorder) or CRAP for short....
Re: EU states could take revenge for Brexit by kicking out a million British expats, Brussels report warns
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 6:40 pm
by Jimgward
memory man wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2017 5:29 pm
Geoff...........
According to the 2011 census, Cypriots living in UK
are as follows....
UK residents born in Cyprus (2011 Census)
England: 78,795
Wales: 1,215
Scotland: 1,941
Northern Ireland: 344
Just over 80,000
Hahahahahaha
Re: EU states could take revenge for Brexit by kicking out a million British expats, Brussels report warns
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 6:40 pm
by Jimgward
memory man wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2017 5:29 pm
Geoff...........
According to the 2011 census, Cypriots living in UK
are as follows....
UK residents born in Cyprus (2011 Census)
England: 78,795
Wales: 1,215
Scotland: 1,941
Northern Ireland: 344
Just over 80,000
Hahahahahahaha
Re: EU states could take revenge for Brexit by kicking out a million British expats, Brussels report warns
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 6:48 pm
by Royal
memory man wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2017 5:29 pm
Geoff...........
According to the 2011 census, Cypriots living in UK
are as follows....
UK residents born in Cyprus (2011 Census)
England: 78,795
Wales: 1,215
Scotland: 1,941
Northern Ireland: 344
Just over 80,000
Whilst not disputing these figures, of course a census is dependent upon people actually filling in the form and returning it. I found the following report on Wikipedia:
"Evidence submitted by the Home Office to the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee in February 2011 suggested that there were about 300,000 Turkish Cypriots living in the UK"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Cypriots
Re: EU states could take revenge for Brexit by kicking out a million British expats, Brussels report warns
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 7:09 pm
by OhSusana
I think you are all being much too hard on Mr Meldrew.
He is probably simply presenting "alternative facts" in the style of the Trump administration.
Also, it is Valentine's day, after all, and young Geoffreys is probably enjoying his 1 millionth glass of wine with his dear wife ))
Re: EU states could take revenge for Brexit by kicking out a million British expats, Brussels report warns
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 7:17 pm
by Dominic
Moved to politics. Happy Valentine's Day everybody!
Re: EU states could take revenge for Brexit by kicking out a million British expats, Brussels report warns
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 7:51 pm
by Jimgym
kingfisher wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2017 6:29 pm
El tel- quite so, and can lead ultimately to Compulsive Repetitive Argumentative Posting (disorder) or CRAP for short....
A lot of it around!!
Geoff you're slightly off the mark with your figures!!
Re: EU states could take revenge for Brexit by kicking out a million British expats, Brussels report warns
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 8:46 pm
by Steve - SJD
Also worth noting that the status of Cypriots in the UK is different from Brits in Cyprus.
They are Commonwealth citizens and as such the regulations are different.
Cheers
Steve
Re: EU states could take revenge for Brexit by kicking out a million British expats, Brussels report warns
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 2:59 pm
by kingfisher
I believe the Mail stopped the use of Wikipedia as a sole source of information in 2014.
Re: EU states could take revenge for Brexit by kicking out a million British expats, Brussels report warns
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 6:16 pm
by cyprusgrump
Termites Dream wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2017 11:10 am
I came across this, as it is the new hot topic of "Fake News" from the Huffington Post.
The Daily Mail has been removed as a “reliable source” on Wikipedia after the news group was deemed “generally unreliable”.
Some 12,000 links to the Mail, and its website MailOnline, will now be gradually removed by volunteer editors on the encyclopedia.
But is this Fake News??
Wiki is great for non-political stuff - if you want to know some scientific formula or how much a volcano weighs it is invaluable...
But it is completely biased politically and of course pretty much anyone can edit it and add their own biased views.
I was going to write more about it but I stumbled across an article that pretty much encapsulates my views...
Wikipedia joins the tabloid-haters
Wikipedia has banned the use of the Daily Mail as a source of information on its site. The self-styled ‘library of the web’ has decided the largest tabloid news site in the world is ‘generally unreliable’ and has a reputation for ‘poor fact-checking, sensationalism and flat-out fabrication’. Yes, a crowd-sourced website that can be edited by any Tom, Dick or Harry is now fretting about facts.
The Daily Mail is subject to libel laws, and staffed by trained journalists. This is more than can be said for Wikipedia, which is hardly famous for its reliability. In the past it has included public entries calling actor Gary Oldman a ‘giraffe’, asserting that footballer Thierry Henry ‘was born a c**t and remains a c**t’, and accusing teeny-bopper band the Jonas Brothers of having genital warts.
Whether or not you like the Daily Mail, to denounce its journalistic reputation without proof is unnecessary and wrong. Every online paper will contain occasional inaccuracies, but this is the nature of online news reporting.
Wikipedia’s editors need to be honest about their decision – they don’t like the Daily Mail because of its politics. Preaching against the Daily Mail is an easy and lazy form of virtue-signalling, exercised by people trying to demonstrate their PC credentials. From campaigns like Stop Funding Hate to students’ union bans on tabloids, there is a cultural trend towards banning opposing views. Wikipedia’s decision to remove the Daily Mail is part of this censorious climate.
If Wiki bans links from the New York Times, Huffpo, and the BBC to name a few it may re-gain its credibility...
Re: EU states could take revenge for Brexit by kicking out a million British expats, Brussels report warns
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 6:38 pm
by Dominic
Libel doesn't necessarily come into it. If you make up a lot of stuff about Brexit for instance, who is actually going to sue?
Re: EU states could take revenge for Brexit by kicking out a million British expats, Brussels report warns
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 10:24 pm
by cyprusgrump
Dominic wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2017 6:38 pm
Libel doesn't necessarily come into it. If you make up a lot of stuff about Brexit for instance, who is actually going to sue?
Well, it could prevent you from saying untruths about a remainer for instance, like calling them a racist or a xenophobe or something...
Re: EU states could take revenge for Brexit by kicking out a million British expats, Brussels report warns
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 10:39 pm
by keving
Well if some one called me a racist or a xenophobe, I wouldn't get annoyed or lose any sleep over it. Mind you, I might think they were a bit thick
Re: EU states could take revenge for Brexit by kicking out a million British expats, Brussels report warns
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2017 6:58 am
by geoffreys
kingfisher wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2017 2:59 pm
I believe the Mail stopped the use of Wikipedia as a sole source of information in 2014.
I stopped using the Daily Fail as a source of information long before that!
Geoff.
Geoff you're slightly off the mark with your figures!!
European Technocats pooping themselves and desperate to hold their failing club together. It states that individual countries will have to decide on the arrangement after Brexit. Quite why Cyprus would make it diffcult for the many thousands of British Expats, pouring thousands into their economy and taking into account the many thousands of Cypriots living in the UK, is frankly beyond me. As devil,so eloquently puts it "Scuttlebutt", i do like that word....although Horse Manure is also appropriate I think.