"Everyone is desperate to become British before it is too late" says Jonathan Hendry

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Applying for British citizenship never crossed my mind even though I have been living in London for ages. I am both an EU citizen (Denmark) and a non-EU citizen (Norway).

I hope that even if the UK decided to leave the EU, our neighbours would not annex our garden overnight, spray paint "Scandis go home!" on our house and then nationalise the property altogether to turn it into a memorial of suffering endured by Londoners under the EU's free movement of labour.

Anyway, we are prepared to flee to the closest Ikea for temporary shelter in case violence and pogroms break out in Chelsea after the vote.

BBC is asking Should EU citizens consider becoming British?

Comments

[bichoose.livejournal.com]

Amongst the working class i live and work with..only two have said they will vote to stay in all the rest have either postal voted or intend to vote out....the main reason..for the last forty years or so they have been taken for a ride and are now completely fed up being told by other countries and politicians on how to vote next Thursday....Quite a few have also said if the vote goes to remain in..then it has been rigged...as before...One thing is certain what a day it will be when the vote count is released...

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It will be quite a day indeed. I think the win for the out crowd won't change much for the existing EEA residents. Otherwise we'll sell our house in London and move to Stockholm, Zurich or Copenhagen. But we don't expect it to happen regardless of how the UK votes.