IN response to your piece on Saxby’s hunger strike (My right to stay! Olive Press last issue) I would like to say that I stand with him and hope that something comes from this.

As a fellow British expat I feel his frustration. Thankfully I was granted residency but not without a lot of grief and waiting around.

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Call it bureaucracy or the Spanish mañana, mañana attitude, as far as I am concerned Brits who have been in Spain for years, sending their kids to school, paying their taxes and actively contributing to society, should not have to fight for their right to remain. Those of us who decided to emigrate did so because we love it out here, that alone should be enough. Brexit was not my choice, I doubt it was any expats’ choice, but when dealing with local authorities they do love to remind you that ‘you chose this’.

Ed Jones, Benidorm

Don’t be silly

I READ your front page piece about a Brit who went on hunger strike because he has not been granted residency in Spain.

Whilst I can appreciate that this is a difficult situation for Mark Saxby, he is not the only one and has to realise that once the state has decided not to grant someone leave to remain then unfortunately that is case closed for the time being. He can rebuke it of course, but to go to such extremes as starving himself seems ludicrous to me. If you are going to fight the fight then surely go down the official channels and save yourself the toll that a hunger strike will have on your body. I for one would not manage it!

David Willoughby, Alicante

Editor’s note: As our updated story in this issue tells, Mark has now sensibly come off hunger strike after making his point.