Some people just voted out without thinking it through

NoMushroom said:
i didn't know which way i was going to vote... decided in the booth - on reflection glad i voted to leave
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Glad because of all the brilliant benefits which the UK has had in the three months since leaving, which you will happily detail below in your next post.

PS I think this thread title was dedicated to you.
PPS I think your user name is a misnomer. You need to delete the 'no' bit, because if you are glad you voted to leave, you have clearly been thrown in the corner and sh4t on.
 
SmallTown said:
I assume it is if you can't speak enough Spanish to fill in the forms. Which, I would wager, is the majority of brexit voting British Immigrants in Spain
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I think there is a bit of an industry for translators. People to go with you to hospitals and other places.
 
I'm not sure not speaking the language is a particularly solid excuse in these days of Google Translate - I can scan a doc on my phone and work out what it says in seconds.

At least some people are beginning to understand where the balance of power lies in a post-Brexit world. This outdated British self-aggrandising view of the world is ultimately just that, and the world has moved in the intervening 80 odd years since the Second World War (at least it had until the last couple of years!)
 
spanishman said:
I think there is a bit of an industry for translators. People to go with you to hospitals and other places.
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Not to sound like a Brexiteer myself but if you can't speak the language surely you shouldn't have the same rights as someone who can? Integration should happen when people emmigrate. I lived in Spain for an extremely brief period of time, and didn't really need anything like health care or to rent housing. I still made the effort to try and learn the language
 
SmallTown said:
Not to sound like a Brexiteer myself but if you can't speak the language surely you shouldn't have the same rights as someone who can? Integration should happen when people emmigrate. I lived in Spain for an extremely brief period of time, and didn't really need anything like health care or to rent housing. I still made the effort to try and learn the language
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Fortnight in Benidorm? ;)
 
SmallTown said:
Not to sound like a Brexiteer myself but if you can't speak the language surely you shouldn't have the same rights as someone who can? Integration should happen when people emmigrate. I lived in Spain for an extremely brief period of time, and didn't really need anything like health care or to rent housing. I still made the effort to try and learn the language
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I agree with you and although this is nothing to do with Brexit there are plenty of schools where some of the kids can’t speak English with all the problems that brings. This is not the kids fault but is a sign of a much wider problem of lack of integration.
 
SmallTown said:
Not to sound like a Brexiteer myself but if you can't speak the language surely you shouldn't have the same rights as someone who can? Integration should happen when people emmigrate. I lived in Spain for an extremely brief period of time, and didn't really need anything like health care or to rent housing. I still made the effort to try and learn the language
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Tbf any document that you have to provide to the authorities in Spain that are in English have to be translated and stamped by an official and qualified translator - though as Spanishman says, there's definitely a market for less official translation services for Brits who need / would like help going to the doctors etc, or even just understanding the system
 
NoMushroom said:
i didn't know which way i was going to vote... decided in the booth - on reflection glad i voted to leave
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I suspect you may be trolling and I'm certainly not looking for an arguement. However, can i ask what made you form that opinion?

I know people have a go at me for taking an interest in this subject but I'm genuinely curious as to why we have Brexiters right now. At this point in time, when all these things have failed, I would genuinely love to know why people are glad it has happened. I can't for the life of me work it out.
 
Malaguena said:
Tbf any document that you have to provide to the authorities in Spain that are in English have to be translated and stamped by an official and qualified translator - though as Spanishman says, there's definitely a market for less official translation services for Brits who need / would like help going to the doctors etc, or even just understanding the system
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I am not a cunning linguist. My skills are in I.T. and the sciences.

I struggle to sing in key. I also find it difficult to listen to something and repeat it back.

I think my Spanish is poor. However I understand much more that I can speak. Also, google is my friend. Even if the translations are not very good.

For around 3 years I held the post of president of the urbanisation where we live. That involved working with the administrators and all of the suppliers of services to our apartment block. Plus liaison with the owners. Where more than 50% are Spanish. All that helped my Spanish improve.

With coronavirus isolation plus someone else doing the presidents job now my Spanish is getting worse. Rather than better.
 
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