This post is fantastic. I can relate to so much of it. Tory in-laws eating up every word of the Daily Mail. The free 12-bedroom London houses! And I'm sure everyone else here is like me instantly bringing over all our elderly relatives to have all their surgeries on the NHS for free.
Once we wrapped our heads around how much the process has changed since 2008, and the gravity of the time apart and how it'd affect our 5yo being away from daddy, etc., DH banned them from using the "I" word in our presence. But I'm not above throwing it into conversation occasionally, "well, you know, I'm an immigrant".
And I swear every English person I've met assumed I was handed a red passport with our marriage vows. They all do that exact same thing mentioned above thread "are you sure that's right? No, I thought spouses got citizenship?"
Yes. I'm. Sure.