[diminoten]

You're focusing on the wrong thing here. It's not about whether he could have navigated a fucked up system to solve his specific problem, it's about the fact that the system is so fucked up that it violates expectations to this insane degree (man who lived somewhere for over 40 years peaceably and even contributorily is now having to leave).

[sveme]

He doesn‘t have to leave. He just can‘t stand as a mayor anymore. No Brit has to leave, that has been clarified by all EU host countries.

[frnkng]

He is not required to leave. As stated in the text he is probably loosing his job as mayor as soon as the Brexit happens.

[tannhaeuser]

He doesn't have to leave. He just can't be a mayor unless he's willing to apply to German citizenship (which he'd get in a heatbeat) because you're required to be an EU citizen for that. Have you read TFA at all?

[diminoten]

Leave office, is what I mean.

Also, from the guidelines:

> Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

[random878]

Lots of things change in life, regardless of how much we don't want it or how fair it is. I don't want Brexit either, but that's not going to change it.

[diminoten]

That's not the conversation this article is trying to have. Of course things change, the conversation here is how terrible those changes are. Maybe that's not interesting to you or redundant, but to others it is interesting and those people want to keep talking about it/making points about how stupid it is.

[random878]

Yawn. I can see where this is going. If people don't show an outward display of fevered anti-Brexit sentiment they are immediately shot down as somehow pro-Brexit. It's not that binary. I'm very anti-Brexit, but I'm sick of these disingenuous woe is me articles.

[diminoten]

Sorry human suffering bores you. Feel free to let us talk about this issue on our own at any point!