Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2016 3:30pm
If I had been given the opportunity to vote out even after living in Spain for the last 25 years I would have voted out.
Why? not for any selfish reasons like cheap flights and promenades but because of the total loss of self determination.
As to going back to the post war poverty I seem to remember that things where not to bad pre EEC and if you are correct and we where poor we had all those different varieties of apples, yes the first grant from the EEC was to grubb out all our native apples so that we could buy the same size, same color & same taste(cardboard) French crap, today UK farmers are paid grants not to produce so that Spanish goat herders(not the correct term because the goats do not see the light of day and are fed on subsidised animal feed)150 goats giving a net monthly income of circa 2,500 euro per month. Add to this the milk they produce is then shipped to France (another subsidy) where it is turned into cheese and possibly re shipped to Spain.
Incidentally I have had a successful business here and also intend to spend the rest of my life here, which I susspect will be under the same conditions that we lived here pre EEC.