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@charliebuffet99

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Right-leaning remainer/rejoiner. Personal freedom above all else. Join the SM, restore FoM. Politically homeless. Reluctant Lib Dem... for now...

Joined January 2024
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7 months
@BenjaminOCall It's strange isn't it the Scottish flag and Welsh flag are to be celebrated but a union flag or especially an English flag are problematic.
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@DavidGHFrost @guardian We should join the single market then we'd all have FoM throughout, you seem to agree
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David Frost, June 2015: "When we get to the referendum, I hope it's a real debate about everything Europe offers. I would add the Single Market & single trade policy. It's probably a 5-8% GDP uplift.. There's a very clear benefit.. We'd begin to lose it if we weren't part of it"
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@nomoremonarchs Also daily reminder the Royals are exempt from inheritance tax 40% for the rest of you plebs.
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@PaulbernalUK Thats not even the problem. The problem is people giving her a platform still.
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@BladeoftheS So glad we ditched those unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats in Brussels.
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@BladeoftheS The UK is not a rich country. It is a poor country with a few rich people.
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@mikegalsworthy The but Germany whatabouttery is such nonsense when I can point to specific aspects of Brexit that are affecting my life that simply would not be a problem if we we're still in the EU. Life is undoubtedly worse due to Brexit. That doesn't mean it'd all be rosy in EU. But better.
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@Tamedfreaks @wayotworld Yeah there are enough native problems even less reason to be importing more. Thanks for making the point.
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@phoebeEteasdale @implausibleblog Lady in white, if they're so desperate why further risk their lives in small boats across the channel when they're perfectly safe in France?
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@Mike45540870 @andrewhesselden Freedom of movement was a great social equaliser, now mobility is once again the purview of the wealthy.
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@Hendehibby Lol @ "yes means no to xenophobia" the whole movement is rooted in xenophobia
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@GBNEWS I've seen interviews with Ozzy Osbourne admitting drug use yet he has no visa issues
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@archer_rs They have stepped up though. Australia and New Zealand have negotiated very good trade deals... for themselves.
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@vivamjm And Ben Habib blamed the Commonwealth for not "stepping up". Why the hell would they? They are sovereign nations who must act in their own best interests. They owe the UK nothing.
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@mikegalsworthy Our Northern Irish contemporaries have EU citizenship, I think Scottish, Welsh and English should have it too. #rejoineu
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@implausibleblog This is a large part of why leave won. Many saw it as a protest vote against the government.
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@philiparrogers @SaveFOM Freedom of movement is the ultimate tangible freedom that all everyday citizens can appreciate. Whether you use it or not, why would you not want it? Why would you choose to be restricted in life?
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@lunaperla @anandMenon1 Being ruled by a quasi democratic gov in London or a quasi democratic gov in Bxl really makes no noticeable difference to my life. Not having FoM does make a noticeable difference to my life. No gov decision in my lifetime has ever had such a profound affect on citizen rights.
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@Irr_Orbit @LabourAlexB The way to change that perception isn't to stop using it yourself. That just enhances it. Reclaim the flag. It is for everyone.
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@eleanorzjames @phoebeEteasdale @implausibleblog Yes if I'm fleeing war/persecution I'd stop at the first safe country. I wouldn't further risk my life to cross the channel in a small boat.
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@eleanorzjames @savanQadir @HumzaYousaf Indeed UK is majority white to have all the leaders now be non white is actually very unrepresentative.
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@implausibleblog The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money.
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@DanielLambert29 They're not British Overseas Territories, they're Crown Dependencies
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We were told we could be like Norway or Switzerland but look at that map, we've ended up like Bosnia and Albania.
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@Tuskinhell @SaveFOM @Suewilson91 I think those that don't want FoM are the selfish ones. You don't want it fine but why are you so keen to deprive others?
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@PedroSerranoEU @David_Cameron All of this mess was his fault. I want my freedom of movement back.
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@the3million After the Irish free state broke away from the United Kingdom special status of British and Irish citizens in each others countries was maintained. The same should apply here to UK and all EU citizens.
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@BrexitPirates British access to British territory controlled by a foreign entity. Sovereignty. What a joke lol.
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@IrishInquiry Ireland is a far better option anyway, seemingly after just 3 years they can get Irish citizenship
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@wesstreeting Nothing will change as long as your lot continues to rule out the single market.
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@Jacobbe79601492 @mrjamesob We were told we could be like Norway or Switzerland instead we ended up like Bosnia and Albania. To "make Brexit work" we must join the single market. What is Starmer so afraid of? It is the Brexit of Farage himself. Sell it like that!
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@FinancialRevolt @PolitlcsUK @thetimes And jail, so free bed and board. Honestly seems like a good idea.
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@JulienHoez May's red lines is what punished the UK
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@JosephTrimmer_ Trump should use his videos as campaign videos
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@BritainElects @RedfieldWilton Things are only going to get worse until someone addresses the elephant in the room
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@TraceyOMahony81 @Kate42855777 Why would you want to opt in? What benefit is there to opting in?
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@rolandmcs Didn't the telegraph (whether you agreed with them or not) used to be a serious paper?
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@philiparrogers @SaveFOM Problem being this is the man who needs to see the benefits of the SM
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@sonofr Committed to making something that can't work, work, something half the population never wanted, many who did want it have changed their minds or died. Not to mention those who have since come of age and also don't want it. Madness!
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@SaveFOM Brexit disproportionately affects Brits without the correct grandparents or Brits born in GB vs NI making us 2nd class citizens. Asking for some mechanism to be treated the same is not exceptionalism, quite the opposite in fact.
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@andrewhesselden @Robert_J_Irwin @nialloconghaile @JulieMontoya20 Niall lives in a world where every EU citizen fully understands the EU and fully believes in it's virtue while every Brit is a 19th century imperialist
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@tomhfh @OzKaterji The people of Rochdale really missed a trick. That by-election was the perfect opportunity to get an OMRLP MP elected.
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@SaveFOM Freedom of movement is the ultimate tangible freedom that all everyday citizens can appreciate. Tell me what Brexit freedom or new found "sovereignty" has made the life of the average Brit better since leaving EU? Losing FoM has made us less free and more beholden to one govt.
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@BurnsideNotTosh Paradoxically many of the "working class" don't work.
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@NicholasTyrone Brexiteers with dual citizenship are the worst kind of Brexiteers
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@SaveFOM All Brits born in Northern Ireland, not most, a 6 generational English couple from Surrey can go to NI for the birth of their child to ensure they have more rights than if they were born anywhere else in the United Kingdom. I will encourage this birth tourism in my family.
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@SaveFOM Quickest would be single market only then when the debate is less toxic we can discuss (and have a referendum) on fully rejoining but it would be on new member terms, there's no way we'd be able to rejoin on old terms. That is impossible.
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@RepublicStaff Why would I ever have had any trust in any of them?
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@Don_LImmortale @andrewhesselden This is true but I think what Andrew is getting at is we were promised "no downside only considerable upside" so until this materialises Brexit is not done as sold. If it can't be done (which it can't) we must end the stupidity and seek to rejoin.
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@Eyeswideopen69 I have a really bad feeling he's going to be made a Lord. It's absolutely astonishing they think he is the answer, he was an absolute failure as PM he should be nowhere near power again.
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@EuropeanUnity1 Brexit was never supposed to win. He was supposed to lead Leave to a narrow loss and take over as PM. It was all about personal political gain for him.
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@PeteRIGBY @supertanskiii Maybe this is what Tice was alluding to the other day...
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@archer_rs There's no contracts for mates in a free offer.
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@DaveAtherton20 @RishiSunak From having the most feared Navy in the world to being unable to defend its own shores. The British decline is tragic.
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@brexit_sham Brexit was a fools errand, just a shame we had to do it to prove it.
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@EveryCountry @PatHarkin7 @nulasuchet I'm hoping someone asks him if NI is in an "incredibly privileged and unique position" why isn't this available to the rest of the UK? But I'm sure anyone wanting to ask him that will also have been cancelled.
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@vivamjm EEA solves everything! It's the obvious answer.
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@brainburnnow @KrestenRasmusse @markmcnulty_99 @andrewhesselden Anyway I can tell this is just going to go round in circles as it often does, we'll have to agree to disagree. I simply find 90/180 for a block of 29 countries punitive, whether I'm a member of the club or not.
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@DavidGHFrost @Telegraph The question that I want to ask is who are you? I'd never heard of you no-one in the UK had ever heard of you. I would like to ask you, who voted for you? And what mechanism do the peoples of the UK have to remove you? Is this British democracy? Is this "sovereignty"?
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@nickreeves9876 By the time we eventually rejoin it'll be Brits moving to Eastern Europe to work cash in hand trade jobs and send money back.
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@archer_rs I'd happily pay a yearly fee. It could be an easy revenue generator for Brussels 16m remainers while some may be lucky and have the correct grandparents but assume not for €100 a year that's €1.6bn in easy money.
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@BrexitBuster They made a big deal of Boris Johnson joining the channel last October. Wonder what happend to that?
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@EssexPR You bleat on about 17m votes how many have died? How many regret? Not to mention an entire new cohort of voter who have come of age. How long do you stick with something because it won the vote if the day? 13m voted for Blair in 1997 should we have never had an election again?
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@pmdfoster @EurasiaGroup @Mij_Europe @FT @AndyBounds @HenryJFoy Single market is more important. But at least it's a start.
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@andrewhesselden @euromove @Eurostar @EurostarUK @SaveFOM With the UK being the highest volume of 3rd country travellers to the EU having some sort of mutual recognition/exception would be beneficial to both
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@Conservatives You're pathetic. I will never forgive you for Brexit.
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@dontbrexitfixit So who do I claim my reparations from?
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@SaveFOM Even today most EU citizens don't understand that time spent in Germany counts against time spent in Spain etc.
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@SaveFOM We didn't need to end FoM to "take back control" we always had control. All ending FoM has done is make life harder for Brits /2
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@dphole @RichardBentall I don't necessarily support the EU. I'm not a fan of big government at all, wherever they are located but I had more tangible personal freedom as an EU citizen.
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@DavidGHFrost @guardian The question that I want to ask is who are you? I'd never heard of you no-one in the UK had ever heard of you. I would like to ask you, who voted for you? And what mechanism do the peoples of the UK have to remove you? Is this British democracy? Is this "sovereignty"?
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@SaveFOM Freedom of movement was used by every Brit every time they went shopping.
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@jayrad198900 @KP24 @SadiqKhan That kind of emphasizes his point at how bad it's gotten. When a South African is concerned you know it's bad.
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@StAustellAdam @SaveFOM @UK_EU_FOM Have frequent business trips to Germany, now you can't holiday in Spain. People are not free to travel.
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@philiparrogers @Mike45540870 @andrewhesselden Exactly just because you don't use a right or a freedom is no reason to limit your rights and freedoms.
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@BrexistentialC No thought for the people of Gibraltar and what they want? Gibraltar will not become part of Spain but it will likely join Schengen meaning British access to British territory is controlled by a foreign entity. EU+ citizens will have greater rights to visit then Brits.
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@SaveFOM @hhesterm @DavidHenigUK I have heard of recruiters at university careers fairs ask British students if they have an EU passport or if they are able to get one. It's almost another qualification in itself and one purely down to luck. This is discrimination amongst Brits based on their grandparents.
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@BladeoftheS The tax affairs of other countries is their business. You can't ban tax havens. If they choose to be tax friendly that is their prerogative.
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@running4rights @EadeDebbie I'm reminded of some advice Debbie may do well to heed "pissing in someone's yard won't make yours any greener"
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@implausibleblog Rayner may have committed tax fraud. That is an issue and shouldn't be ignored.
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@Hugo_Arbuthnot @andrewhesselden @d_boeselager @SaveFOM Having friends and family in 5 different Schengen countries. You're limited to 90/180 for all the countries combined. Countries offer long stay visas (e.g. PT D7, ES NLV) but 90/180 applies to the other 28. No country offers a short stay visa for use after you've used your 90/180
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@NicholasTyrone It's still a flex to be able to put "former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom" on a CV
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@LaindonFEMINIST She really is an inspiration. A working class lass from a council home proving you don't have to be an an Old Etonian, Oxbridge grad to become a tax dodging elite.
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@HugoGye @theipaper @SaveFOM @andrewhesselden while we're constantly told by nobodies on Twitter that there is nothing to negotiate it seems those actually responsible are open to it. Hopefully things that were offered and refused like mobility chapter are offered again. Would prefer full SM tho
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@Riggs_martin @tzanninis @johwilcha @TheMooseOfTruth @EoinI3s @petiole10 @csav55 @LittleGravitas @Keir_Starmer @RachelReevesMP @UKLabour This is what is so infuriating. It was only ever a close vote many regret, many leavers have died a whole new cohort has come of age. To persist with Brexit which is unworkable in no way reflects the will of the people and hard Brexit never did. Yet Starmer seems committed.
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@GeneGenie666 @SaveFOM @StringerSo18220 @acgrayling After spending 90 days in one country you are then precluded from 26 other countries for 90 days.
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@andrewhesselden It's a sobering feeling being totally unrepresented by your "representatives".
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@andrewhesselden @SaveFOM It's like burning the house down to fix a leaky tap.
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@brainburnnow @KrestenRasmusse @markmcnulty_99 @andrewhesselden That is a fair point re knowing exactly where you stand, the problem is 29 sovereign nations and not just one. Who benefits banning a tourist from Greece because they were in Iceland too long?
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@TheLiberal_ie Why do you block out the number plates?
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@susanbaker588 @nickreeves9876 @laruedupass Yes I think a number of the blue wall remain voting constituencies in the home counties would have voted Lib Dem had the fear of Corbyn not been greater than the fear of Brexit.
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@JHCPAL @archer_rs Brexit effectively created 2 tiers of British citizen. Those with the correct grandparents (or born in NI) and those not. Some are far more affected than others. Farage's kids are in tier 1.
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@andrewhesselden @RettopNoj @KlavsHenriksen @sue When Ireland left the United Kingdom the rights of individual citizens in both directions were fully respected, protected and maintained as a priority and are still to this day. The same should apply to UK and EU citizens at large.
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@StAustellAdam @SaveFOM @UK_EU_FOM Spent 90 days in Greece, you are now banned from 28 other countries for 90 days, so no people are not still free to travel.
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@davethequiz @SaveFOM @EUbre65 If you have family commitments in 5 different countries there is no visa solution.
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@vivamjm Yet....
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