As first step to
#RejoinEU
advocating for restoring 4 Freedoms of Movement after Brexit in UK/EU/EEA/Switzerland (people, goods, services, capital).
#SaveFOM
We will continue working after the election to influence the new government, and to help them understand the importance of mobility of people, goods, services and capital. If youโve got a story to tell then please follow and get involved.
If you only have a British passport and youโve already had 90 days in Greece, did you know, youโre 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 otherโs countries please follow us and RT along occasionally. We want to demonstrate people did not want to end Freedom of Movement.
#Brexit
#BrexitMess
If youโre 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. Letโs tell politicians we want a different future for UK+Europe.
Good grief. Please donโt ever agree to go on one of this channelโs shows ever again. This is shockingly rude. Canโt believe they treated you like this
@LizWebsterSBF
@ofcom
@spj_tweets
Weโd like Sir Keir Starmer to call for the UK to rejoin the Single Market and restore Freedom of Movement urgently and before the yearโs 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 theyโve used up 90 days elsewhere already.
British man: โAs 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 rightsโฆ (continued)
British woman: โIโm 26 years old, my plan after graduating was to do a masters in an EU country. Now, fees are โ000s of pounds. Before Brexit would have been ยฃ0. It feels like my generation have been robbed of opportunities and our European identity.โ
#VoicesofLostFOM
The simple reason Brexit doesnโt 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. โญ๏ธ ๐ฌ๐ง
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 youโre 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.
31 countries that, at one time, British people had the right to live/work/study/retire in.
Do you remember?
๐ฆ๐น ๐ง๐ช ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ท ๐จ๐พ ๐จ๐ฟ ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ช๐ช ๐ซ๐ฎ ๐ซ๐ท ๐ฉ๐ช ๐ฌ๐ท ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฎ๐ช ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฑ๐ป ๐ฑ๐น ๐ฑ๐บ ๐ฒ๐น ๐ณ๐ฑ ๐ต๐ฑ ๐ต๐น ๐ท๐ด ๐ธ๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ฎ ๐ช๐ธ ๐ธ๐ช ๐ฎ๐ธ ๐ฑ๐ฎ ๐ณ๐ด ๐จ๐ญ
Well said Tobias Ellwood (Conservative MP for Bournemouth East).
โThis is the generation coming forward to say: weโre not accepting this model of Brexitโ
โฆI 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 senseโ
#VoicesofLostFOM
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 didnโt really understand the mobility rights they had as EU citizens before Brexit.
Weโre 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.
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 itโs not currently UK gov policy to negotiate reciprocal visa arrangements for own citizens to match immigration.
Brexit wants scrapping in its entirety . Itโs a disaster for trade , for hauliers and for both customers and companies . Nothing positive has come from it and nothing ever will
Sad weโre 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?
๐ฆ๐น ๐ง๐ช ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ท ๐จ๐พ ๐จ๐ฟ ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ช๐ช ๐ซ๐ฎ ๐ซ๐ท ๐ฉ๐ช ๐ฌ๐ท ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฎ๐ช ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฑ๐ป ๐ฑ๐น ๐ฑ๐บ ๐ฒ๐น ๐ณ๐ฑ ๐ต๐ฑ ๐ต๐น ๐ท๐ด ๐ธ๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ฎ ๐ช๐ธ ๐ธ๐ช ๐ฎ๐ธ ๐ฑ๐ฎ ๐ณ๐ด ๐จ๐ญ
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
๐ช๐บ ๐ฌ๐ง
74% of Europeans feel they are citizens of the EU โ 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
โ
โSod pompous conversations about โtradeโ and โeconomicsโ. 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. Iโm angry. Very angry. Donโt know why no one else is.โ
"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."
Unsurprisingly, people whoโve been mobile and free in Europe their whole lives donโt 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 canโt be surprised if in their 30s, 40s and 50s theyโre angry theyโve lost access to careers, homes and sometimes even friends and family in Europe.
#BrexitDisaster
How much would you pay for a pass that gave you unlimited Freedom of Movement of people across Europe? (PS: EU membership cost approx ยฃ45 per person year year)
This is unacceptable
@ukhomeoffice
.
You are affecting peopleโs lives and undoubtedly impacting the future treatment of Brits in Europe too.
Itโs time that all EUinUK and UKinEU had their rights guaranteed for life. Absence should never matter.
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.
Donโt let Brexit survivalists tell you that your Freedom of Movement doesnโt matter because not many people used it. Thatโs 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 โdonโt knowโ), and 73% believe, there should be โmutual free movementโ (84% after removing dk)
Ending Freedom of Movement in the UK has made no sense at all. It hasnโt stopped or even slowed immigration and hasnโt changed access for European visitors at all.
It only causes problems for Brits who travel a lot.
The new โproject fearโ 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.
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 โhome-grownโ 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 โhomeโ.
Thatโs 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 EUโs research and innovation programme.
More info โ
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.
Itโs time to find a way to restore mutual Freedom of Movement between UK and EU/EEA countries and Switzerland.
(Itโs past time.)
Letโs get it done.
And then letโs begin to find our place once again in Europe.
A number of Brits in UK+abroad stupidly voted to leave the EU, not understanding that British peopleโs 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
โWhat 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 canโt go to Greece if Iโve spent too long in Italy. Brexit is ridiculous and British negotiators clearly incompetent.โ
Thereโs 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 donโt want to yet.
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.
โjust like Brits in other EU states.
Next year the EU starts to charge โฌ7 for permission to enter the Schengen zone and the UK will charge Europeans a similar amount to enter the UK. โฆIf this were a new Ryanair charge people would probably be up on arms about it, but noโฆ
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?
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 itโs fine, because we trust them. Donโt we?
Ironically, UK travellers probably need FOM in the rest of Europe more than vice versa because now Europeans can spend 6 months per visit in the UK but UK can only spend 3 months in a 6 month period at a time in the entire 26-country Schengen zone.
#BrexitReality
Freedom of Movement isnโt about immigration. Itโs about moving the fence so that a larger area can feel like home to more people who already live there.
#RejoinEU
#ProEurope
72% of people polled answered "yes" to this question, which correctly highlighted the two-way nature of freedom of movement.
It's incredible how far out of touch Labour (and to a degree the LibDems) are towards Brexit.
All it takes is learning to frame things effectively.
@thatginamiller
How does that work with the 90-in-180 day problem? Will government negotiate Freedom of Movement in Europe for prisoners? Will they qualify for the ETIAS permit with a criminal record??? ๐ ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Stopping Remain voters travelling to a Europe so easily and preventing them working in Europe without visas isnโt making life any better, easier or more pleasant for Leave voters.
If Cameron couldnโt do Brexit, nor May, Johnson, Truss nor Sunak then we are wondering **who can** properly โBrexit usโ all? ๐
Who is left to have a go?
Starmer?
When will these people admit either that itโs done and this is it, or that it could never be done anyway?
We support restoring Freedom of Movement. We also support rejoining the EU. Weโre just doing our little bit to contribute to a National UK and even Europe-wide conversation that helps people see the benefits and to want some kind of improvement however itโs done.
@andreajenkyns
@ConsPost
Do you realise the ECtHR (the Court) is nothing to do with the EU? Nor is the ECHR (Convention).
Nothing to do with the EU. Nothing to do with Brexit.
These are international agreements that safeguard our Human
Rights against tyranny and governments that overstep the mark.