If you live in the EU, Switzerland and selected other countries your UK pension increases by the same amount as it does the UK. We get the GBP10 Xmas bonus as well.

AS for intelligence and education- if the Daily Wail, Sun, Mirror et al tell them white is black then Jack and Jill Average will believe it, more so if they can blame someone else for telling them otherwise. Independant thought, analysis and deduction are too much like hard work for them. Remember the NotW anti-paedophilia campaigh which resulted in a flash mob attacking a paediatrician......