At the risk of hijacking this thread...first thanks for that info, but my main problem is that being in a non EEC country is proving more difficult than I had imagined. I am on the edge of losing all my British rights to medicine, and the costs here are, well, impossible.
Wanting to see my grandchildren grow up has been financially catastrophic. I guess that they have to find a way to pay for all the medicine and welfare that is needed for the folk that have never paid a penny into our economy.