It's always an inside job

[GMXam]

I don't understand who Pablo is and how he had the keys.

From what I understand after reading Jantango’s post, Pablo is the neighbor who Jantango believes gave his keys to enter the building to this guy who assaulted and robbed her.

 

[Sockhopper]

I'm glad you've turned up in this thread, Sockhopper. Having already apologised for my mistake here, to the group, I can now apologize directly to you.

I accept your apology. We're good. Making a mistake is a risk we take by posting. Very embarrassing but isolating oneself from engaging would feel worse.

 

[Sockhopper]

I'm sorry to hear of your problems and your terrible experience in 2008. I'd like to understand more about your situation....Why would you lose your British pension and healthcare?

Re. losing our British pensions, please read this brief description of what financial 'passporting' is:

http://ukandeu.ac.uk/fact-figures/what-is-passporting/

If or once the UK stops being an EU member state, it will lose its EU-derived right of ‘passporting’. It will become a non-EU, ‘third country’. That would mean that financial institutions (including subsidiaries of foreign companies based in the UK) will lose their right to sell their services across the EU from the UK. They would have to instead apply to each EU country (28 of them) for a licence to sell in that one unless they move their European HQ to an EU country. So, British pensioners would no longer be able to have their UK pensions sent to their bank account in euro in the European country where they live as they’ve been able to do without any problem at all. As well, their access to any British bank account they may already have will be limited.

Also, many British with jobs elsewhere in the EU don’t know what will happen to their pensions once they retire and become due to receive them. Until now, EU citizens have been able to aggregate the pension rights they accrued while they worked in 2 or more EU countries over time. The thrust of the British government to disenfranchise us from our basic rights is to tell us that there’s no way we should or can know in advance what will happen to us, our spouses or our foreign-born children’s civil status and its associated rights including our pensions.

We are kept in the dark: we owe the UK a duty to become gleefully stupid, uninformed and proud to live in chaos in order to regain Britain’s ‘sovereignty’! We should all return to the UK because Theresa May (its PM) has recently appointed a Minister of Food Distribution whose job it is to ensure that British people resident in the UK will have access to ‘adequate’ food there when the UK leaves the EU at which point duties will then attach to (food) imports from Europe, and haulage of goods into England will require 8 hours to clear at Customs a single truck. (‘Adequate’ food reminds me of when C. Kirchner told portenos that a smart cook could feed a whole family a healthy diet on just 6 pesos per day. Nobody on this forum could get that to work.)


Re. loss of public health care where we live:

The way health care works in the EU is that your (EU) country of citizenship covers the costs of your usage of another member state’s public health system – the one in which you live as a legal resident of it.

Insurance policies, the right to drive in the EU on a British licence, the loss of all EU consumer rights and workers’ rights, our right to be educated elsewhere and have it count in the UK, our professional certifications being accepted across the EU, and the British-Irish ‘Good Friday’ agreement which helped bring peace to Northern Ireland are all under threat of disappearing on March 29. There’s virtually no time left to pass the oodles of legislation needed to stop these consequences.

The UK government is certain that it deserves after it leaves the EU all the perks of EU membership! - notably its single market in goods and services -but without being bound by those things’ accompanying obligations – esp the free movement of EU citizens and the measures put in place by the EU and adopted by every EU member state to make relocating one’s life and family work.

 

[jeff1234]

Re. losing our British pensions, please read this brief description of what financial 'passporting' is:

http://ukandeu.ac.uk/fact-figures/what-is-passporting/

If or once the UK stops being an EU member state, it will lose its EU-derived right of ‘passporting’. It will become a non-EU, ‘third country’. That would mean that financial institutions (including subsidiaries of foreign companies based in the UK) will lose their right to sell their services across the EU from the UK. They would have to instead apply to each EU country (28 of them) for a licence to sell in that one unless they move their European HQ to an EU country. So, British pensioners would no longer be able to have their UK pensions sent to their bank account in euro in the European country where they live as they’ve been able to do without any problem at all. As well, their access to any British bank account they may already have will be limited.

Also, many British with jobs elsewhere in the EU don’t know what will happen to their pensions once they retire and become due to receive them. Until now, EU citizens have been able to aggregate the pension rights they accrued while they worked in 2 or more EU countries over time. The thrust of the British government to disenfranchise us from our basic rights is to tell us that there’s no way we should or can know in advance what will happen to us, our spouses or our foreign-born children’s civil status and its associated rights including our pensions.

We are kept in the dark: we owe the UK a duty to become gleefully stupid, uninformed and proud to live in chaos in order to regain Britain’s ‘sovereignty’! We should all return to the UK because Theresa May (its PM) has recently appointed a Minister of Food Distribution whose job it is to ensure that British people resident in the UK will have access to ‘adequate’ food there when the UK leaves the EU at which point duties will then attach to (food) imports from Europe, and haulage of goods into England will require 8 hours to clear at Customs a single truck. (‘Adequate’ food reminds me of when C. Kirchner told portenos that a smart cook could feed a whole family a healthy diet on just 6 pesos per day. Nobody on this forum could get that to work.)


Re. loss of public health care where we live:

The way health care works in the EU is that your (EU) country of citizenship covers the costs of your usage of another member state’s public health system – the one in which you live as a legal resident of it.

Insurance policies, the right to drive in the EU on a British licence, the loss of all EU consumer rights and workers’ rights, our right to be educated elsewhere and have it count in the UK, our professional certifications being accepted across the EU, and the British-Irish ‘Good Friday’ agreement which helped bring peace to Northern Ireland are all under threat of disappearing on March 29. There’s virtually no time left to pass the oodles of legislation needed to stop these consequences.

The UK government is certain that it deserves after it leaves the EU all the perks of EU membership! - notably its single market in goods and services -but without being bound by those things’ accompanying obligations – esp the free movement of EU citizens and the measures put in place by the EU and adopted by every EU member state to make relocating one’s life and family work.

It sounds like Brexit will put you, in many ways, in the same position as if you had stayed in Argentina, at least in terms of not being able to electronically transfer funds automatically, having your native country pay for your local health insurance, having to get a local drivers license, transferring college credits and certifications, etc. My family is currently struggling with every one of these problems.
Hopefully you will still be ahead of how you would have been in Argentina where customs blocks us from bringing in any foods, medicines, clothing or technology.
And fortunately you'll still have your separate pensions. Had you stayed here the 40% inflation would have wiped them out as it did to my wife's pension after 25 years of hard work.