Advocating for restoring 4 Freedoms of Movement after Brexit in UK/EU/EEA/Switzerland (people, goods, services, capital). #SaveFOM #UKEUMobility #RejoinMarch ⭐️
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Here’s what we’d like Keir Starmer to to explore with the EU in Brussels this week:
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1. Better mutual mobility
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This is the kind of statement that could
move markets. Astonishing! What a revelation.
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May 29
Freedom of Movement was too often discussed only as an immigration issue.
What was lost for British people was the freedom to live, work, study, travel and maintain lives across Europe.
I talk about that here:
bremaininspain.com/news/brem…
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It becomes politically plausible as more people believe it’s possible and want it.
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How the messaging has shifted from:
“Better out”
“leave means leave”
“Freedom and benefits”
To
“Oh but rejoining would be a nightmare”
“Oh but the Euro”
“Oh but Schengen”
May 26
🇪🇺 Rejoin campaigners are living in a fantasy land, @ColinBrazierTV argues, rejoining the EU would be a nightmare!
Do you agree?
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May 27
There are leave voters who believe nothing changed for their rights in Spain since Brexit.
They think they could only stay 90 days before Brexit and that it’s just the same now.
It’s not.
Their right to register and stay without a visa has gone. The criteria to stay are now much higher too.
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“Because for millions of people, the
freedom to live, and move and work across borders was simply part of normal life.
Until it wasn't.”
youtube.com/watch?v=JYA3gVGx…
#VoicesofLostFOM #SaveFOM
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May 26
The Brexit lot are trying to keep Brexit alive by scaremongering about rejoining the EU forcing the UK to adopt the Euro and Schengen.
As @b_judah points out this isn’t the case.
Since the debate on Britain rejoining the EU has opened up two questions have emerged as central. Would the UK be forced to join the Euro or the passport-free Schengen Area?
The truth I explain for @arguablymag, is that if you look closely at the treaties, the UK would have a veto of any implementation of its Schengen membership, as would Ireland who is not in Schengen — which is of course like us committed to an open border on the island of Ireland as per the Good Friday Agreement. The UK also would join the Union with an automatic derogation on Euro membership until it had fulfilled the Maastricht criteria, key bits of which are at their own discretion.
If the EU wanted a Rejoin government to win the referendum, it could simply clarify these points before any campaign. Neither of which is a concession but a statement of legal fact. This means a referendum, per polling, is eminently winnable.
arguably.uk/p/a-good-rejoin-…
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May 26
Any claim from doubters that the EU wouldn't want us back "collapses under even cursory scrutiny".
intpolicydigest.org/brexit-s…
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May 26
Neither the Euro or Schengen would be forced on Britain - just read the treaties.
arguably.uk/p/a-good-rejoin-…
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This 👇
May 26
Brexiters trying to justify ending your Freedom of Movement
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May 26
Brexiters trying to justify ending your Freedom of Movement
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More queues at the border.
May 26
Once again Brexit chaos.
Whilst you queue Farage gets £5 million and a private helicopter, after promising you 🫵 everything will get better…
Vote Rejoin 🇬🇧💙🇪🇺
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Warning…
May 22
Bank holiday getaway: Dover now warning : "There is currently a 120-minute processing time for tourist traffic in the Buffer Zone. Please note there is also external congestion on the Port approach roads.”
independent.co.uk/travel/new…
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May 19
Great but it’s now time to be even BOLDER.
At the very least we need mutual Freedom of Movement.
I explain why here youtu.be/JYA3gVGxlnw
The best outcome though, will be a full rejoin of the EU.
Every dream needs to be heard in order to come alive.
And now we are looking to LibDems to show the leadership that Labour have not been able to serve up.
May 19
Liberal Democrats have always been clear that Britain’s future lies back in the EU, and we have a credible plan to get there - starting with a UK-EU customs union.
ALT Quote from Al Pinkerton which reads: Liberal Democrats have always been clear that Britain’s future lies back in the EU, and we have a credible plan to get there.
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It’s time for change. And it starts today.
labourmovementforeurope.uk/r…
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"Simply put, we need access to the customs union and the single market so that our business can thrive again." Mike Donovan, Apparel Studio, Stockport.
europeanmovement.co.uk/new_r…
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Worth fighting for
Apr 26
There must never be borders inside Europe again.
Schengen is one of the EU’s greatest achievements. It gave Europeans the freedom to live, travel, and connect across our continent without barriers - from Oslo to Rome, no checkpoints, no visas.
And yet, some want to take that away. The so-called “patriots” who would drag us back to a fragmented Europe where unity was just a dream.
Weidel. Le Pen. Abascal.
Is that really the past you want to return to?
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Factories don’t just “import” and “export”.
They rely on constant flows of components, often arriving just in time.
Interrupt that flow, and production doesn’t slow — it stops.
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Choice in shops isn’t accidental.
It’s the result of goods moving freely across borders at speed and scale.
Reduce that freedom, and choice narrows quietly — then permanently.
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