{"id":199,"date":"2016-10-25T19:57:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T17:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelbailey.at\/uk-referendum-2016\/?p=199"},"modified":"2016-10-25T19:57:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T17:57:52","slug":"a-slight-make-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbailey.at\/uk-referendum-2016\/2016\/10\/25\/a-slight-make-over\/","title":{"rendered":"A slight make over&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p style=\"text-align: justify\">The original tagline of this blog addressed my disenfranchisement as a Briton who had lived outside the United Kingdom for over 15 years and had look his democratic right to vote &#8211; it was &#8220;The view of a British citizen ineligible to vote in the UK Referendum on EU membership&#8221;.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In the aftermath, I rapidly confined the blog to mothballs as the Referendum had been and gone, even if the aftermath will rumble on for years. A comment on my Facebook page for the blog commented that the blog looked somewhat funereal &#8211; and that I might like to give it a makeover and focus on the ongoing situation. Four months on, I decided that the time is right to move the blog on, buoyed somewhat with the 50,000 reads it has attracted so far.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Recently I have had some contact with others planning on taking Austrian citizenship &#8211; from talking with them, I have realised that I have to take the pragmatic approach and not hope for some seemingly ever more slim chance of waking up from a bad dream that the UK has decided not to push forward for Brexit, with Boris Johnson as our Foreign Minister under Theresa May as Prime Minister. 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