As first step to
#RejoinEU
advocating for restoring 4 Freedoms of Movement after Brexit in UK/EU/EEA/Switzerland (people, goods, services, capital).
#SaveFOM
Complaining about the impacts of Brexit is so very important.
It’s the first step to recognising that things need to change, and of course the recognition that Brexit itself may eventually need to be undone, piece by piece or fully.
#brexit
#savefom
If you only have a British passport and you’ve already had 90 days in Greece, did you know, you’re now not allowed to go to Spain? Not even for a weekend.
If you believe Freedom of Movement should be restored for everyone in UK, EU, EEA and Switzerland in each other’s countries please follow us and RT along occasionally. We want to demonstrate people did not want to end Freedom of Movement.
#Brexit
#BrexitMess
If you’re frustrated by Brexit and want to remind all of your friends across Europe that only 26% of the UK population voted for Brexit and maybe as few as just 8% wanted to end Freedom of Movement then please RT. Let’s tell politicians we want a different future for UK+Europe.
Good grief. Please don’t ever agree to go on one of this channel’s shows ever again. This is shockingly rude. Can’t believe they treated you like this
@LizWebsterSBF
@ofcom
@spj_tweets
We’d like Sir Keir Starmer to call for the UK to rejoin the Single Market and restore Freedom of Movement urgently and before the year’s end
#BrexitReality
After 47 years of EU membership Brits have been left with worse travel rights in Europe than NZs or Canadians. Even people with homes in Europe are barred from access if they’ve used up 90 days elsewhere already.
British man: “As an engineer I used to work easily in Europe, Germany three times, Belgium twice, these opportunities are no longer available to me as companies would prefer to take somebody with EU working rights… (continued)
British woman: “I’m 26 years old, my plan after graduating was to do a masters in an EU country. Now, fees are ‘000s of pounds. Before Brexit would have been £0. It feels like my generation have been robbed of opportunities and our European identity.”
#VoicesofLostFOM
The simple reason Brexit doesn’t work is because British people still want to travel to, live in, work in, sell to and buy from Europe. And vice versa.
47 years of doing that.
And no one wants to stop now.
Not even leave voters.
@euromove
@SaveFOM
#Brexit
#EU
One of the main blockers to UK rejoining the single market is the belief of politicians that the people will not accept Freedom of Movement of people.
But in reality this is one of the biggest reasons why people want to rejoin the EU.
Things are picking up pace. The BBC is now talking about the negative impacts of Brexit. The government is sounding us out on Switzerland style Brexit and people are starting to explore the idea of restoring Freedom of Movement. The future is looking brighter. ⭐️ 🇬🇧
Would it surprise you to learn that the EU proposed a mobility chapter for the TCA in 2020 that could have seen mutual travel, work and settlement arrangements agreed between UK and EU countries after
#Brexit
?
Would it surprise you to learn that UK gov rejected the offer?
If you think leaving the ECHR and giving up your own human rights is a good idea to make it easier to deport a handful of asylum seekers to Rwanda, then you have no idea what you’re doing and you need help.
The government decided to end YOUR Freedom of Movement just because it was too much hassle to ask arriving Europeans for proof of income, healthcare or to fill in a form. Does this make you feel angry? It does us.
British people are absolutely right to be complaining about post Brexit arrangements. No doubt fellow Europeans too. It’s no fun for any traveller.
Perhaps soon UK gov will listen to them and make changes accordingly.
Of course, as britons whinge & whine about this, it needs repeating, as SImon Calder expains brilliantly, britons "Voted for this!"
(Note: It has nothing to do with UK not being in schengen. It was because, pre-Brexit, britons were EU Nationals. Now they are not)
5/6
31 countries that, at one time, British people had the right to live/work/study/retire in.
Do you remember?
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…I work now in the UK with eu citizens who now have to go through costly visa processes in order to work in the uk. It all makes no sense”
#VoicesofLostFOM
Well said Tobias Ellwood (Conservative MP for Bournemouth East).
“This is the generation coming forward to say: we’re not accepting this model of Brexit”
Dear Prime Minister,
To achieve your growth ambitions for our country you know you’ll need to align to and rejoin the Single Market 🇪🇺.
You might worry British people will not accept Freedom of Movement of people, but on this we are sure you would be wrong.
♥️
#SaveFOM
Has anyone realised yet that leaving a scheme of reciprocal mobility between 32 countries, has done nothing whatsoever to halt immigration to the UK and has nothing at all to do with refugees or small boats?
One of the biggest challenges of restoring mutual Freedom of Movement after Brexit is simply that many British people didn’t really understand the mobility rights they had as EU citizens before Brexit.
Did you know that EU offered UK citizens better mobility in Europe after Brexit but UK gov said NO?
Bilateral deals are out there & countries want to do them. But it’s not currently UK gov policy to negotiate reciprocal visa arrangements for own citizens to match immigration.
We’re campaigning to restore FOM for Europeans and to scrap the cruel, divisive and pointless EU Settled Status application processes. No one should have to apply to stay somewhere that is already their home.
Brexit wants scrapping in its entirety . It’s a disaster for trade , for hauliers and for both customers and companies . Nothing positive has come from it and nothing ever will
Sad we’re into the last 24 hours of the transition period. In the UK we will be making the most of our last day of Freedom of Movement before it is lost for a while. But stick with us, follow and RT. Eventually politicians will realise that we want our FOM back.
Would you like to live/work/study/retire in any of these countries visa free?
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Millions of British people had their EU citizenship taken away from them against their will.
Perhaps we can have it back soon.
#eu
#rejoinEU
#Brexit
@EU_Commission
🇪🇺 🇬🇧
74% of Europeans feel they are citizens of the EU – the highest level in more than two decades.
In the lead-up to the
#EUelections2024
, our latest
#Eurobarometer
shows that 6 in 10 EU citizens are optimistic about the future of the EU and overwhelmingly
#StandWithUkraine
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British people are absolutely right to be complaining about post Brexit arrangements. No doubt fellow Europeans too. It’s no fun for any traveller.
Perhaps soon UK gov will listen to them and make changes accordingly.
Dear Prime Minister,
To achieve your growth ambitions for our country you know you’ll need to align to and rejoin the Single Market 🇪🇺.
You might worry British people will not accept Freedom of Movement of people, but on this we are sure you would be wrong.
♥️
#SaveFOM
“Sod pompous conversations about ‘trade’ and ‘economics’. They took away my freedom to choose where I live and how long I spend in other countries in Europe without tonnes of costly paperwork. I’m angry. Very angry. Don’t know why no one else is.”
Unsurprisingly, people who’ve been mobile and free in Europe their whole lives don’t really like having to fill out forms, pay fees and wait for visas. Failure of UK gov to do anything about this is causing considerable frustration.
#SaveFOM
When you encourage generations of young people to grow up and be internationally mobile in Europe, you can’t be surprised if in their 30s, 40s and 50s they’re angry they’ve lost access to careers, homes and sometimes even friends and family in Europe.
#BrexitDisaster
"If you have a Labour government, they would take you back in. They will tie you on defence, on migration, regulation... without any of the benefits of membership."
How much would you pay for a pass that gave you unlimited Freedom of Movement of people across Europe? (PS: EU membership cost approx £45 per person year year)
This is unacceptable
@ukhomeoffice
.
You are affecting people’s lives and undoubtedly impacting the future treatment of Brits in Europe too.
It’s time that all EUinUK and UKinEU had their rights guaranteed for life. Absence should never matter.
This kind of border regime is no good for travel between UK and the rest of our continent.
@UKLabour
@Keir_Starmer
@DavidLammy
please look at what you can do to alleviate this kind of thing. Mobility matters and people miss their EU citizenship.
Berlin passport control this morning. My flight landed 1 hr 35 mins ago and still in the queue. Brits with Chinese, Brazilians, East Africans, Americans and Argentinians. Lots of angry Brits. No sign of any EU citizens - they breezed through the eGates 90mins ago. Thanks, Brexit.
The minimum income requirement separates families. It is a cruel policy, putting a price tag on love. It's time for the new government to build a humane migration system.
It is a national tragedy that today the UK will leave the EU.
I oppose it today for the same reasons I have always opposed it.
Brexit is a con. A trick. A swindle. A fraud.
People who owned or rented homes in another EU country before Brexit moved back and forwards between their homes several times a year. Some worked in two countries too, while others cared for family members.
EU citizenship meant they had the right to reside, not only to visit.
Don’t let Brexit survivalists tell you that your Freedom of Movement doesn’t matter because not many people used it. That’s untrue but also immaterial. If you used it, then it matters.
Brits want mutual free movement restored. 79% of us in a recent Omnisis poll believe we should have freedom to travel and work across Europe (88% after removing ‘don’t know’), and 73% believe, there should be ‘mutual free movement’ (84% after removing dk)
Brexit “is bad, bad, bad."
The outgoing French consul for Jersey says there has been "no good element" of Brexit for the island.
"There is no good thing about Brexit for Jersey at all, it is only bad.
"Whether it's to do with the export of our fish products or our tourism
The new “project fear” from Brexit supporters is that rejoining the EU would require UK to join Schengen and the Euro.
Neither is a certainty.
This piece of propaganda is especially difficult to rebut because many remainers would like to have both of these things anyway.
Ending Freedom of Movement in the UK has made no sense at all. It hasn’t stopped or even slowed immigration and hasn’t changed access for European visitors at all.
It only causes problems for Brits who travel a lot.
Here is the moment when Michael Gove said that any resident or person with a home abroad (even those with future plans) would be protected by the Withdrawal Agreement. We are holding the UK government to account until this is fixed.
@BestForBritain
@BremainInSpain
@desdelamoncloa
Lisa Nandy: I want my Freedom of Movement back.
You claim there's 'no appetite' for it? I'm ravenous for it. I want my EU citizenship rights back. I want to return to civilised partnership with our friends & kin in our shared Europe.
Your objection to that is -?
Imagine if what we thought of as “home-grown” crossed Arctic Circle in the North, reached Russia & Turkey in the East and Iberian Atlantic coast in the West and Mediterranean in the South.
The Single Market enabled us to consider all of that to be “home”.
That’s resilience.
The difference between the continent and the U.K. - we are now a 3rd country . This is France today . The freedom of movement of food with no barriers and customs formalities
@LBC
The UK is back in the Horizon family. A win-win for global scientific progress.
Starting from 1 January 2024, UK researchers will be able to participate in
@HorizonEU
, the EU’s research and innovation programme.
More info ↓
Perhaps controlling immigration was just a lie to persuade people to vote for Brexit. Right now immigration to UK continues but Brits have lost the reciprocal mobility elsewhere.
People of Europe need to remember that the Right to Freedom of Movement is not the right to holiday. It's the right to *live* (and work and study and retire). Even people using what you think are just holiday homes, were exercising their treaty rights to **live**. Not holiday.
A number of Brits in UK+abroad stupidly voted to leave the EU, not understanding that British people’s rights to reside depended on UK being an EU member. Nevertheless their foolishness has cost lots of other Brits right to live, work, study, retire + use 2nd homes.
#BrexitChaos
It’s time to find a way to restore mutual Freedom of Movement between UK and EU/EEA countries and Switzerland.
(It’s past time.)
Let’s get it done.
And then let’s begin to find our place once again in Europe.
“What irritates me most about Brexit is that for European visitors, UK gov has barely changed access at all. Six months per visit! And yet for some reason I can’t go to Greece if I’ve spent too long in Italy. Brexit is ridiculous and British negotiators clearly incompetent.”
There’s no good reason at all why the UK government could not agree to restore completely visa free mobility between UK and EU, EEA and Switzerland. They just don’t want to yet.
Next year the EU starts to charge €7 for permission to enter the Schengen zone and the UK will charge Europeans a similar amount to enter the UK. …If this were a new Ryanair charge people would probably be up on arms about it, but no…
The few leave voters opposing Freedom of Movement, often tell us they just wanted permanently settling EU citizens to have to register, prove funds/job & evidence healthcare cover, or be actively seeking work.
—just like Brits in other EU states.
Politicians and the general public seem to be coming round to the idea that young people should have Freedom of Movement again in Europe/UK.
But what should the cut off age be?
The first step towards reversing Brexit is to ask the EU to rejoin the EU or Single Market. Once that application is accepted, an official process is set in motion. Waiting for the "right moment" to ask the question is nonsense, because the process itself will take years.
If you see people online falsely claiming British people wanted to end freedom of movement of people, please challenge them and point them to articles such as this.
#SaveFoM
First they convinced us to give up our Freedom of Movement.
Now they want us to give up our Human Rights too.
But it’s fine, because we trust them. Don’t we?