[Closed] How much are you prepared to pay to retain EU Citizenship?

I'd pay that much.

[url= https://www.dfa.ie/irish-embassy/great-britain/passports/how-to-apply-for-a-passport/ ]Seventy quid for a renewal [/url]

£350m a week.

30p per day? Where do I sign?

I'd pay that and be happy

It's going to cost more than that to lose it.

I'd pay £100 and I'd pay another £100 to make sure that no sneaky leave voting bastid gets one so they can have cheap holidays/booze cruises/buy stuff on the cheap.

Captainsasquatch outstanding amendment to the proposal... I second that **** em

Do we get to expel the [s]whinging gits[/s] formerly British, now Europeans in two years time? I'd be happy to sponsor a few.

Bugger all, as I'm not an EU citizen.

Nothing, I'm already part of the EU.

Ahhh 5thElephant you know you want to sign up, just think who will be left behind UKIPPERs, Daily Mail Readers and right wing pensioners - that's going to be a cracking night in the pub. You can all share your spite and resentment

Did anyone see the Nigel Farage piss take thing on the BBC? It's jolly funny.

Hopefully they'll all move to Australia. I'd like the place to myself. 😀

100 quid a year is a bargain.

Could I skip the visa queue at airports full of whining old Brexiters, proudly clutching their blue passports as the world literally and figuratively overtakes them?

Dunno, but I might cancel my STW sub if they allow another Brexit thread!

They won't get in to Australia to old,poor, unskilled and it would be too hot

They won't get in to Australia to old,poor, unskilled and it would be too hot

DezB Brexit is the reason STW thrives

Whatever it really costs me in taxes.

They should open it to expressions of interest now and see if we can get, say, 18 million before A50 is triggered just to wind up the Brexies.

The most enthusiastic Brexiters I know are already there

One of the main reasons I didn't like Australia was that it was full of racists and the attitudes to things like equality, worker's rights, women and immigrants were utterly despicable. No wonder brexiteers love it.

One of the main reasons I didn't like Australia was that it was full of racists and the attitudes to things like equality, worker's rights, women and immigrants were utterly despicable.

I assume you're talking about Essex?

£100 would be a bargain, would probably go a fair bit higher if needed.

It's not going to matter now.. The damage is done.

The laughing pig molester that called the pointless referendum in the first place must have received a fat retirement payout for pulling such a destructive stunt..

He'll not be remembered fondly in the history books when this all unravels..
We're damned if we do and damned if we don't now

£100 is a no brainer, ability to live in any other country and claim unemployment and other benefits - no brainer.

I imagine the cost would be closer to £5,000 than £100.

I met a lady today who had voted to leave because she'd bought a lampshade that, because it met EU lampshade regulations (?), hadn't fitted her 50 year old lamp without the purchase of additional adapting washers.

She (in her 80s) was annoyed that her kids were annoyed with her and was also - unduly, I felt - put out when I told her that my father in law had called his 4 kids and basically held a vote, saying to them that whilst he'd be inclined to vote leave, he understood that really it didn't matter much to him at 83, it was about their (and the grandkids) futures. As a result, he voted in.

Surely the question is how much are you prepared to pay to leave?

Why not just turn it round the other way?

If you voted leave, 20% tax hike on VAT and Income Tax.

Remainers could continue to pay what they pay just now, Leavers could pay the premium for sovereignty.

Win/Win?

I met a lady today who had voted to leave because she'd bought a lampshade that, because it met EU lampshade regulations (?), hadn't fitted her 50 year old lamp without her purchasing additional adapting washers.

and they don't let the under 18s vote for being too immature! WTF, they should ban anyone over 65 from voting for being senile.

Logan's Run had the right idea....

It'll be interesting if the country is made up of a mix of "British" and "European" citizens. How's that going to work? Different laws for different folks?

I imagine the cost would be closer to £5,000 than £100.

It would work, if dystopian sci-fi is to be believed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_%26_the_City

I imagine the cost would be closer to £5,000 than £100.

£0.00

I think it's an ideal soloution 15 million people pay £100 to the EU to keep the right to roam/live £1.5 billion in the EU coffers has to be attractive per annum + all the tax paid for jobs and houses etc

Would pay a couple of hundred a year or a bigger amount as a one off lifetime membership.
Not bothered which, in paying it

Check out the cost of employing a non-EU citizen in EU countries, Captain, £5000 is not laughable. I employed a teacher from Peru in France. It was complicated and expensive until she got married. Check out thh cost to a US company of employing a Brit, if the company gets approval.

It only costs us £130.00 (per year) per head at the moment, so Jamba is way off the mark.

I can also see a fair number of multinationals actually requiring associate membership for employment (assuming it doesn't break the law) as without it would affect the ability to redeploy workers urgently

[url= http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/employers-obligations-workers-being-sponsored-green-card.html ]Nothing like a link. [/url]

Hire a Brit to work on a building site in the US and you stump up $580 straight off, legals fees and then have to pay the person the "prevailing wage" which is highly likely to be higher than the real market rate - it's not really in the interest of the authorities to set it lower is it.

Nothing, being a citizen alone does nothing for me. What will it do? Make getting through customs quicker? It was always much harder getting back home than leaving anyway. It's not going to let me trade with the EU as an individual, it's not going to strengthen our currency and it's not going to ensure my rights as an employee and as a human is protected.

I'd happily pay £100 per year or a larger one off payment for life. TBH I'd do it just to piss off the frothing idiots who are determined to crash the economy and make everyone's life worse because they stupidly think their own problems are caused by foreigners. The way this country is going, having a get-out clause would seem like a sensible option.

TBH I'd do it just to piss off the frothing idiots who are determined to crash the economy and make everyone's life worse because they stupidly think their own problems are caused by foreigners

Many a true word is spoken in jest - I think I would too!