{"id":124891,"date":"2025-05-23T09:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T09:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/124891\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T09:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T09:29:09","slug":"life-in-spain-british-decline-and-starmers-eu-reset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/124891\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in Spain, British decline, and Starmer\u2019s EU reset"},"content":{"rendered":"

Living in Spain<\/a> since Brexit<\/a> has been no easy task<\/strong>. Rights which we took for granted disappeared and in some cases Britons were cold shouldered for leaving the European club. Looking at Britain<\/a> I can\u2019t see any real economic advantage of Brexit despite what Reform leader Nigel Farage<\/a> and former PM Boris Johnson<\/a> have said. I was not surprised by some of the newspaper headlines in Britain on Tuesday after the deal between Britain and the European Union<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What I do believe is that it is a step in the right direction and full marks to Prime Minister Keir Starmer for having the courage to make a deal with the European Union despite the backlash in some sections of the British media and the usual pro-Brexit voices. Britain\u2019s standing in the world diminished when Britain left the European Union<\/strong> and in Spain, Johnson was dismissed as a joke and a man who should have a hair cut.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t turn your back on the world and so full marks to Starmer for penning deals with the United States, India and the European Union. Rather than a British surrender I would say that it is a British victory. The Brexit crowd had their opportunity and went nowhere with it. In fact, the British economy contracted and the UK was out in the cold. I would say to them, Put Up or Shut Up<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Living in Spain since Brexit has been no easy task. Rights which we took for granted disappeared and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[5109,802,748,7044,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,55448,384,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-124891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-boris-johnson","9":"tag-brexit","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-comment","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-living-in-spain","18":"tag-nigel-farage","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114556447327551119","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}