Immigrants leave the UK for the EU, not just the other way round – a fact many Brexiteers often forget

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Since the UK voted to leave the bloc, I, as a UK national living in the EU, feel we have been forgotten about by London and Westminster (Reuters)

I left my home country of Scotland at the age of 18. I am now 21, working and studying in Copenhagen, Denmark, and also running a small business.

When I speak to other UK citizens, wherever they are in Europe, I hear this word “expat”. My vision of being an expat is of pensioners living in Benidorm. I identify myself as most EU nationals now living in the UK... an immigrant looking for a better life.

Since the UK voted to leave the bloc, I, as a UK national living in the EU, feel we have been forgotten about by London and Westminster; that the fact we have built our lives in the EU and that our very right to continue our lives as before is at risk means zero to Westminster.

Nobody asked us how we feel.

EU migration goes two ways over the English channel, a fact that all Brexiteers tend to forget.

I am a British immigrant looking for a better life in the EU, I am not an “expat”.

Cameron
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Regarding your Letter: “Our burgundy passports are already starting to become useless for us expats”.

Stephen Ward, this shouldn’t come as a surprise, especially after the UK started to make EU IDs useless too.

I moved from Spain to London in 2006, and ever since used my ID for European trips. Last year I was stopped at border control for 15 minutes with the police asking me the most random questions ever.

Lesson learnt: I’m always with my passport to avoid human contact at border patrol.

Good luck to us all!

Manuela Rubio
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Our democracy requires us not to vote again

I have a similar issue to R Quirk (Letters) in that as well as a second referendum there has been much talk of another general election.

How dare people suggest we ignore the will of the people expressed in the previous election? We voted for a situation where no party has an overall majority, and although we know more now about the incompetence of the government, that is no excuse for another vote. It would be anti-democratic to have one.

There should be no more elections. We made our decision in 2017 and that should be that for all time.

Alan Pack
Kent

The odds of a second Brexit referendum

If there are 1.4 million potential new voters who could change the direction of Brexit if they were given an opportunity, we must also factor in the effects of roughly the same number of votes that would be lost because of death in the last two years. How does the score stack up now?

J Matthews
Wareham

I want to live in Totnes now

Sunday’s article “How the ‘Independent City State of Totnes’ will start the reformation of Brexit Britain” was a breath of common sense in a Lewis Carroll-style whimsical way. But hats off to Cooper for his promotion of human rights and analogies to Trojan horses. Humour can and often does make a point, and I wish the City State of Totnes the best of luck in the future.

I wonder if I can get dual citizenship (although I draw the line at the crystals).

Laura Dawson
Harpenden

Facebook is not the threat we make it out to be

While I might wish that we could uninvent Facebook and its ilk, we’re stuck with them. So I think it behoves us to be thoughtful and balanced in our reaction to their influence, and I don’t think the parliamentary report does that. It is right to be concerned about the influence these platforms can wield, but I don’t think inflammatory comments about threats to democracy will lead to a balanced opinion. I mean I can think of lots of times in my lifetime, and before Facebook was invented, that we might have thought democracy was threatened.

So I have to say to the committee, decent first try but go back and think again. As one of my teachers might have said, you’re getting there but you need to think harder.

Steve Mumby
Bournemouth