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HUNDREDS of angry expats are The victims, who will threatening to ‘invade’ the British mostly come by bus embassy next week. or train, are urging * O f f e r v a l i d f o r n e w c u s t o m e r s o n l expats y . S u ballj over e c t They are converging from all over from Spain in a protest to demand action Spain to turn out to over their inability to drive here due support them. to Brexit changes. “We are real people with They have been writing By Simon Hunter The group - including mostly long real lives and not pawns in dozens of letters to their TheOlivePress-256x170-HOME02.indd 1 term residents - are furious the Britsome political game.” MPs back in the UK and ish and Spanish governments seem Scott Rattray, who lives in Lloret de Negotiations over the movement politicians in Spain, as well unable to strike the most basic deal. Mar. of workers and trade across the as backing the Olive Press U-Turn Meanwhile, expats in almost every “All the other countries managed to Spain-Gibraltar border are now in campaign we launched in June. other European country have been not treat their foreign residents like their second year and are bogged So far demands to Spain’s DGT trafgiven the right to swap their licences this.” down in legal issues. fic authority have gone unanswered, for local ones. Another victim, Tom Kington, based A Facebook group titled ‘Invasion of while the British embassy itself has “It is totally unfair and really disgust- in rural Valencia, added: “The fact the British embassy in Madrid’ has Continues on Page 4 ing that Spanish residents are being there is speculation that this may be pencilled in October 13 for a protest trapped in a game that has nothing linked to the future of Gibraltar is outside the embassy in northern to do with our ability to drive,” said atrocious. Madrid. Opinion Page 6
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