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🧵about #ElectronicTravelAuthorisation the British govt wants to introduce as part of its #NationalityAndBordersBill - esp in light of last night's vote to overturn the recent House of Lords amendment exempting local journeys within island of Ireland.
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Firstly, this is being introduced with little/no understanding of day-to-day realities within border communities.
But TBH that's hardly surprising given the current British govt's obsession with little-Englander exceptionalism and its general ignorance of Ireland.
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But TBH that's hardly surprising given the current British govt's obsession with little-Englander exceptionalism and its general ignorance of Ireland.
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Though I am a wee bit exasperated that many of those expressing outrage about ETA "leading to a hard border", "tearing up the CTA", "breaking the GFA" are seemingly unaware that's there's already an #InvisibleHardBorder for anyone needing a visa to cross the border.
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*Reminder*: Important deadline at the end of this month for EU citizens resident in the UK.
Irish citizens do *not* need to apply to the EU #SettlementScheme but please share the information below with your friends, family, workmates. Thread👇
Irish citizens do *not* need to apply to the EU #SettlementScheme but please share the information below with your friends, family, workmates. Thread👇
1/4 Ask your EU friends and family living in the UK if they have their #SettledStatus? The deadline for applications is 30 June 2021. @EUdelegationUK
#IamSettled
#IamSettled
2/4 Due to the #CTA #CommonTravelArea, Irish citizens do not need to apply for #SettledStatus but citizens from elsewhere in the EU do.
For those followers who got up early this morning to hear me speak on @BBCr4today my apologies - they bumped me overnight. For those interested in what I had to say - here goes. Question was what do we mean by borders, checks, and how can they work without infrastructure? /1
Lots of people talking about Customs borders, regulatory borders, hard borders, soft borders, seamless borders, internal borders, external borders. Checks for different reasons - health, safety, security, customs, tariffs, and so on. Nothing on the #commontravelarea at all. /2
The CTA enables people who enter either UK or IE to be checked at airports ports and harbours of each island by either an Irish Immigration Officer or a UK Border Force Officer and then move freely between the islands. Enforcement is conducted away from the border, internally. /3
