A couple of winges
I feel that the exchange rate for the UK is being manipulated by “person or organisations or maybe even governments unknown”, perhaps ready to take the UK into the Euro Zone. Make the UK more competitive. Since we came to Spain my income has dropped by a large percentage, ie when we arrived the rate was one euro 47 cents per pound, and this remained fairly constant. Now … the exchange rate is fluctuating “wildly”, at Christmas we received 99 cents per pound, now it is around one euro seven cents. I am not really complaining, one takes the rough with the smooth. What really annoys me is the people who trade in currencies and make money out of us “poor unfortunates”. Does anyone else think this is just … wrong, criminal even!
I ready an article in the local English press from a “young woman“ who thought that people like myself who go to live abroad should not receive our pension or any other payments, ie we should not take money from a system that we were not paying into! Wrong … I still pay a large amount of tax into the UK system on my UK income and they do not pay for my health care while I am in Spain … my choice. I worked for 42 years, paying both tax and national insurance, sometimes with more than one job, I find it annoying that a woman who hasn’t worked anyway near the number of years I have and who has contributed less to society to date should open her “big mouth” and spout about something she knows absolutely nothing about. Not all ex pats live off the state! I worked for my state pension, I paid into a private pension scheme, and the money I am “given” is pay back for my years contributing to the economy. Many of the expats I know actually pay into the Spanish system. So … get a life and find something other than expats to winge about. Oh yes, one other thing this woman complained about … cold weather payments … I do not receive “cold weather payments” and know of no one here who does, though I am sure they are around somewhere.
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