If brexit happens in the next 10 years and its a hard option then the back up plan is the golden visa via portugal .
If you invest 500,000 euros in property in portugal they give you a 2 year residence visa , you can repeat this for 6 years and then go for a citizenship test and get a passport and citizenship of portugal and then EU .
The UK allow a tax free lump sum on pensions of 25% , in portugal as a non habitual resident you can invest your pension there and get at it without any taxes for 10 years so to me it makes sense to transfer all my affairs there as soon as i hit 55 and become a uk non-don , more research to do and subject to change in 10 years !
Hopefully there will still be ways and means of this Brit doing that without tying 1/2 a million up in housing or a farm.
It seems the uk is going further into austerity and privatising the NHS along the lines of a US model , especially if the conservatives win the next election.
As a compassionate person who loves his country i think this is going to hurt the poor, daft, unemployable, sick and disabled and i'm really sad about it.
I live way under my means and that makes me feel extremely wealthy , 1% or 5% income tax extra makes no big difference to me.
This country is full of people who earn more than average and feel poor as they drive expensive german cars on credit, designer clothes, or have bought into the myth that housing is a 100% sure and sound investment so don't mind mortgages at 5x multiples and other crazy stuff, ( in my opinion the main driver of house prices in london and the S.E. uk has been availability of credit and larger leverage rather than housing stock for a long time) a 1 or 2 % increase in taxes means financial ruin for these people.
Brexit and the recent decision for an early election means that the tide is going to go out and we'll find out who's swimming naked, i recon .