Hacker News Reader

Yes, this. Is the government going to just keep delaying it?

Spain is a major part of the EU.

There are also a great many British Ex-pats in who retire in Spain, not to mention that Spain is a favourite holiday spot.

View on HN

A constant feature of the past few decades is people commenting on the Mail that the UK is overrun with immigrants and therefore they've moved to Spain. The cognitive dissonance is strong with them.

It's fair to bemoan the general decline of your society with the desire to better your personal lot through immigrating. It's likely that they don't dislike foreigners but they do dislike being forced to subsidise them via taxes. It's a side effect of the welfare state.

Milton Friedmen convers it pretty well in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eyJIbSgdSE. It's an old problem :/

Reply on news.ycombinator.com