Listening to the wireless today re. England fans being allowed to go to the game in Rome, it’s being said that home based fans won’t be allowed but ex pats will. Is it only British people living abroad who are referred to as this? Surely they’re immigrants, the same as incomers to this country are labelled? Or does ex pat sound like a nicer description? As far as I’m concerned a bloke and his wife living on a caravan park just outside Benidorm is an immigrant but watching some of those ‘Brits in the Sun’ programmes they throw the phrase ‘ex Pat’ around like some badge of honour.