Re: Daft
@bpfh
"No but the decisions the UK made does have direct effects: I’m now considered an immigrant rather than just another European working here, I need to prove why I want to stay with my family rather than it being “just normal”."
Thats an issue of the country you reside. Maybe you could look at it as their hostility to foreigners even after you lived there so long or whatever. Thats nothing to do with the UK, the UK shouldnt be tied to the EU just because of how the country you chose to move to decides they should treat you.
"Different work laws, different family laws, different residency laws, none of these applied until 2 years ago"
And yet you say you were there since 1991. Yet thats how that country chooses to treat you. Thats not the UK doing that. As you say you left the UK to live there.
"I won’t say I’m a substandard citizen now, but there has been a lot of negative effects, and I have lost rights that it would have been nice to keep"
It sounds like thats what you're saying. And while they might have been 'nice for you' that does not give much of a reason why the UK should be forced to remain or why you who left in 1991 should be deciding if the UK should be run by the EU.
"which is why I said that I could not have my say in a decision that did - and still does - directly affect me, and will continue to do so until I bite the bullet and request nationality."
And here is the answer. You left the UK for a country you preferred back in 1991 and are still there 30 years later! Yet you havnt requested nationality? Why? And why not now? Why do you consider that 'biting the bullet'? What is wrong with that?