{"id":13278,"date":"2023-10-31T13:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=13278"},"modified":"2023-11-04T17:36:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T17:36:24","slug":"dumb-briton-buys-property-in-italy-but-voted-for-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=13278","title":{"rendered":"Dumb Britons bought property in Italy but voted for Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a>In what clearly counts as an instance of <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/buyer-s-remorse\">buyer&#8217;s remorse<\/a>, today&#8217;s inews carries a piece about two Britons &#8211; one in his thirties and from Bristol, the other a pensioner from Winchester, who both voted for Brexit and now seem surprised they cannot get visas to live permanently in their respective properties, as per the screenshot below of the report&#8217;s headline and byline.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/10\/italy_brexit.jpg\" alt=\"Headline reads - \u2018I made a huge mistake\u2019: Brexit-\nvoting Briton can\u2019t get visa to live in his \u00a343,000 Italian home. Byline reads - A 35-year-old graphic designer from Bristol told i he wishes he could \u2018turn back time and vote Remain\u2019\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/10\/italy_brexit.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/10\/italy_brexit-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/10\/italy_brexit-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/10\/italy_brexit-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Both are now suffering remorse and a feeling of betrayal (<em>remember all those smooth-talking right-wing politicians who lied to the public saying nothing would really changed in our relationship with the EU and its member states? Ed.<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>As defined by the dictionary, the phrase <em>buyer&#8217;s remorse<\/em> has two meanings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a sense of regret or uneasiness after having purchased a house, car, or other major item; and<\/li>\n<li>a sense of regret after having committed to an endorsement, policy, plan of action, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Either of both of those definitions may be applicable in these two instances.<\/p>\n<p>These stories have a moral, i.e. think before you vote (<em>bearing in mind that all politicians lie. Ed.<\/em>) and always remember the law of unexpected consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what clearly counts as an instance of buyer&#8217;s remorse, today&#8217;s inews carries a piece about two Britons &#8211; one in his thirties and from Bristol, the other a pensioner from Winchester, who both voted for Brexit and now seem surprised they cannot get visas to live permanently in their respective properties, as per the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,32,15],"tags":[40,36,16,10,22,33,20],"class_list":["post-13278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-politics","tag-bristol","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-facepalm","tag-language","tag-media-2","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13278"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13290,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13278\/revisions\/13290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}