Nothing much changes. it rains, scotland fail to qualify for another tournament. the government lies and fails poorer people...

As you say, those things which Kipling referred as "the things that truly last/When men and times are past" still carry on. But as you also say, there are plenty of other little changes going on. My sister and her husband, who worked in Germany for around ten years, retired, and planned to spend the rest of their lives there, have just sold up this week to move back to the UK after about 20 years, for fear of what might happen to health care. (Nor, by the way, are they confident about what will happen to their UK healthcare having been so long out of the country).

Ok, that's one couple out of round about 3m and of course some EU citizens will corresponding move out, like peteaberdeen's andrea. so the total numbers may not change that much. But the people who move in will largely be like my sister: elderly, retired, 'not economically active', and putting demands on the NHS. Those who move out are largely younger, economically active, and requiring little from the NHS. That is a change that is slow but will happen over the next few years leading up to the divorce date.


(Before anyone mentions it, I am aware the NHS paid while they were in Germany: it is not financial stress I was referring to, but all the other resources.)