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[dessiato]

Funnily enough I haven't heard that once . I have had more saying why can't Portugal have a vote than anything else. People with relatives working in The UK for example have just shrugged their shoulders and said we will see, they know that it will take ages to re - negotiate. Lots of questions about how it affects me and will they need to apply for a visa if they ever visited the Uk. There have been speculative newspaper articles saying that Brexit will mean house prices will fall in Portugal as the Brits won't buy and that tourism will be down because of the pound. my bottle of Sagres may have risen from 60p to nearly 65p on Brexit day , when you convert from Euro to sterling , but when you are paying £3-4 for one in England it's not going to cause the holiday industry to collapse.

Many of my friends are politicians or international business/relations people working for the EU which, no doubt, colours their view. I should go over to chat more with them.

 

[bi0boy]

 

[Dogsauce]

and that tourism will be down because of the pound. my bottle of Sagres may have risen from 60p to nearly 65p on Brexit day , when you convert from Euro to sterling , but when you are paying £3-4 for one in England it's not going to cause the holiday industry to collapse.

Tourism in Spain / Portugal is doing very well at the moment because people are shit scared of going to North Africa now. It'll not get much of a dent from Brexit. The cost of going further (particularly the US) will be more due to the weak pound vs. dollar, Euro rate not as badly affected as it's been dragged down too.

 

[wheelie_bin]

Interesting. I know one Portuguese person who was voting exit (long term Londoner) saying the Portuguese are desperate for an exit vote themselves, she said many of them despise the EU. Largely Euro, austerity etc but bigger yet is that they can't forgive being denied their democratically elected leadership, even though that only lasted what, 11 days? Maybe Portugal is just too poor right now to make it on its own though, it's in a tough spot.

 

[The39thStep]

Interesting. I know one Portuguese person who was voting exit (long term Londoner) saying the Portuguese are desperate for an exit vote themselves, she said many of them despise the EU. Largely Euro, austerity etc but bigger yet is that they can't forgive being denied their democratically elected leadership, even though that only lasted what, 11 days? Maybe Portugal is just too poor right now to make it on its own though, it's in a tough spot.

The confusion about movement of labour is the same here as it is in England. More Portuguese work in The UK than Brits over here so it's a pertinent issue I think the largest group of Portguese are in France around Lens and there's a few in Switzerland . The initial media response was scaremongering but today there were attempts at some reassurance . The EC is about to fine Portugal and freeze its access to EU funds over its failure to reduce its deficit so that adds to people's ambiguity about the EU.

 

[wheelie_bin]

Ambiguity was not the sense I got from her, highly opposed was more like it. I don't think I've seen any polls of popular support in portugal for the EU though, perhaps they would be as split in a vote as we are. As I say, I would seriously worry for them financially, they'd have to set up and instantly devalue a currency enormously if they left the euro, very dangerous.

Edited - you mean general EU citizens ambiguity not just Portuguese. Yes, agree.