Originally Posted by
Saint-Just
I’ll probably stop deriding expats when they use for themselves the name they use for every other national living in the UK, ‘immigrants’.
It will remind them that immigrants are not a threat but a chance for the country. Either because they come loaded and old, or empty handed but with a will to make a life for themselves.
And scumbags are scumbags, their nationality has nothing to do with it. But then, maybe to some that’s racist towards scumbags.
“Expats” used for Brits retiring in the EU has colonial connotations, and illustrates rather well the arrogance that Petrus (often) mentions.