Current Events > "This isn't what Brexit is meant to be", says soon to be immigrant.

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British travellers in the EU were disappointed today as another mobile phone company reintroduced roaming charges.

Mobile phone operator Vodafone said it would reintroduce European roaming fees for new and upgrading British customers in January 2022, following the lead set by rival EE.

Roaming charges were completely abolished in the European Union in 2017, saving holidaymakers and business travellers millions of pounds a year in total additional fees for using their smartphones outside Britain.

But fee-free roaming was not protected in the Brexit agreement Britain signed with the EU.

"This isn't what Brexit is meant to be," he tells Euronews Travel, "I voted leave to make things simpler, to stop having to follow rules made up by someone I didn't vote for. This is worse than it was before."

Formerly a landlord, David sold his tenanted properties in the UK shortly after the Brexit vote. He planned to move to Portugal permanently when he retired in 2018, but didn't manage to sort residency.

https://www.euronews.com/travel/2021/08/09/british-travellers-rage-as-vodafone-brings-back-data-roaming-charges-in-the-eu

LOL
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well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my actions

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Guy who shot self in the foot and knees shocked to find walking is difficult afterwards.

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I genuinely don't know what many of my fellow Brits expected and why they ever thought they'd keep any EU benefits.
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St0rmFury posted...

"I voted leave to make things simpler, to stop having to follow rules made up by someone I didn't vote for. This is worse than it was before."

Lmfao

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Man drinks bottle of hot sauce, angered by burning mouth

This is EXACTLY what Brexit is you fucking tosser

I'd be able to laugh at this if it wasn't directly affecting me right now.

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So many people voted in that referendum without understanding what they were voting for or the consequences of doing so. It's almost unbelievable how much misinformation was spread about it.

Or it was unbelievable. I guess that's just how things have been going for a while now.

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Landlords gonna landlord

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Aligator snapping turtle lol @DoomsSD

gunplagirl posted...

Guy who shot self in the foot and knees shocked to find walking is difficult afterwards.

This.

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Turtlebread posted...

well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my actions

Edit: Brexit has been such a clusterfuck that our two parties who used to push for a Swexit, the Far-Left and the Far-Right, have gone completely silent on that stance.

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pinky0926 posted...

I'd be able to laugh at this if it wasn't directly affecting me right now.

Yeah, "I fucking told you so!" isn't as satisfying when all of us who knew what the consequences would be still have to suffer them ourselves.

LividDK posted...

So many people voted in that referendum without understanding what they were voting for or the consequences of doing so. It's almost unbelievable how much misinformation was spread about it.

I remember seeing in the news at the time that "What is the EU" was the most searched thing on Google in the UK... the day after the vote.

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Ah fuck, I forgot to include the link to the article. It has more lolworthy quotes.
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Tom Clark posted...

I remember seeing in the news at the time that "What is the EU" was the most searched thing on Google in the UK... the day after the vote.

LMFAO
Man British people are the Americans of Europe aren't they


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Face Eating Leopard Party

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Tom Clark posted...

I remember seeing in the news at the time that "What is the EU" was the most searched thing on Google in the UK... the day after the vote.

pffftBWAHAHA

oh shit what have I done

Anyone else in the Uk been seeing that Nigel Farage ad on youtube? "Everything is getting more expensive, here's my money saving tips" or whatever.

Fuck that prick

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"soon to be immigrant."

lol

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pinky0926 posted...

here's my money saving tips

"Only have your personal maid clean the house twice a week."

"Think about it. Do you really need that second yacht?"

"Gold actually doesn't taste good, so you don't have to sprinkle it on your ice cream."

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pinky0926 posted...

Anyone else in the Uk been seeing that Nigel Farage ad on youtube? "Everything is getting more expensive, here's my money saving tips" or whatever.

Fuck that prick

A few times, yeah.

Whatever company it is that's using him has some gall.
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Prime leopards ate my face material

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Farage has the most punchable face in politics.

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ThyCorndog posted...

LMFAO
Man British people are the Americans of Europe aren't they

Can't disagree

I'm just sorry for the Scots, Welsh and North Irish who get dragged along by the English.

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BalanceLost posted...

Edit: Brexit has been such a clusterfuck that our two parties who used to push for a Swexit, the Far-Left and the Far-Right, have gone completely silent on that stance.

At the last EU parliament election in Denmark the anti-EU party didn't get in for the first time in, maybe since we joined the union.

Which is annoying since I voted for them.

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The fact that he tried and failed to leave the country right after voting is the cherry on top.

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Funkydog posted...

A few times, yeah.

Whatever company it is that's using him has some gall.

The nerve he has to show up in an ad and grift over brexit turning the country destitute is really appalling

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Ilishe posted...

Can't disagree

I'm just sorry for the Scots, Welsh and North Irish who get dragged along by the English.

The Welsh are very much in England's court on most things. At least, that was my impression when I was in Cardiff for work last week all anyone wanted to talk about was the scottish referendum and why they think it's a bad idea.

I may have a very skewed bias on account of talking to taxi drivers, though.

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Ilishe posted...

Can't disagree

I'm just sorry for the Scots, Welsh and North Irish who get dragged along by the English.

Hey now, Wales voted to leave as well, they deserve to get lumped with the rest of England.
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Welp, maybe consider the consequences of your vote beyond just fucking over minorities.

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The dumbass voted to leave while he was planning to retire to Portugal?

Fuck him.

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St0rmFury posted...

"This isn't what Brexit is meant to be," he tells Euronews Travel, "I voted leave to make things simpler, to stop having to follow rules made up by someone I didn't vote for. This is worse than it was before."

"I voted to leave and we left. Im upset that reality doesn't match the made up thing in my head where we get everything good but nothing bad"
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BalanceLost posted...

Edit: Brexit has been such a clusterfuck that our two parties who used to push for a Swexit, the Far-Left and the Far-Right, have gone completely silent on that stance.

It's not just Swexit. Pretty much every other leave campaign has had the wind taken out of their sails.

That comic of Britain being a domino of exits who falls... and tips none of the other ones over and is just lying on its back keeps being more and more accurate
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James Acaster has a brilliant bit about Brexit, on that note.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDGsMeP5au4
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K181 posted...

The dumbass voted to leave while he was planning to retire to Portugal?

Fuck him.

Guy voted for the UK to leave the EU so that he can be free of those pesky EU rules and whatnot, but also plans on moving to Portugal, an EU country, where... he won't be affected by EU rules?
Logical thinking done he has not.

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Thompson posted...

Guy voted for the UK to leave the EU so that he can be free of those pesky EU rules and whatnot, but also plans on moving to Portugal, an EU country, where... he won't be affected by EU rules?
Logical thinking done he has not.

I wonder what EU rules were affecting him so much that he had to vote leave

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Tyranthraxus posted...

I wonder what EU rules were affecting him so much that he had to vote leave

He hated having no roaming charges and really missed being at war with France over fish.

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pinky0926 posted...

This is EXACTLY what Brexit is you fucking tosser

I'd be able to laugh at this if it wasn't directly affecting me right now.

England isnt really receiving the benefits promised. Once again we lose out without gaining anything.

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gunplagirl posted...

Guy who shot self in the foot and knees shocked to find walking is difficult afterwards.

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Bass_X0 posted...

England isnt really receiving the benefits promised. Once again we lose out without gaining anything.

What benefits were promised and by whom? Did you really believe Nigel Farage, because if so I have a bridge to sell you.


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Bass_X0 posted...

England isnt really receiving the benefits promised. Once again we lose out without gaining anything.

what benefits lmao

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ThyCorndog posted...

what benefits lmao

Pro brexit people thought all the Polish, Bulgarian, Black and Muslim people would be kicked out of the country

Now they are shocked to learn not only are they still here more Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi people are coming in and less White Germans/French are coming.

Well they will be once covid is over anyway

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ThyCorndog posted...

what benefits lmao

Fewer brown people

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Roaming charges won't come back, we'll remain in the single market, food will get cheaper, the NHS will get 350 a week, red tape will be reduced, food and drink exports won't be hit, etc. Or not...

Anyone got that image of the Express Brexit headlines contradicting each other?

rofl
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DoomsSD posted...

I could never understand why anyone believed that bus nonsense. The Tories have a history of underfunding the NHS and voted against its creation. But I know an intelligent woman who voted Leave BECAUSE of that bus! She was later ashamed that she was taken in so easily by lies.


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