My FB feed and twitter feed filled with EU citizens, packing up and leaving the UK with a heavy heart. These are: academics, entrepreneurs, teachers, several NHS workers
Meanwhile Twitter Brexiters: There are still over 100,000 coming! Our environment isn't hostile enough! 1/
Meanwhile Twitter Brexiters: There are still over 100,000 coming! Our environment isn't hostile enough! 1/
Those people made this country richer not just in crass economic terms, doing jobs that UK citizens aren't willing to do (e.g., being a nurse), bringing their education, language skills etc. They also made the country richer in cultural and social terms. 2/
It's a great loss they're leaving, and since EU citizens don't live separate in ghettos each post I see of removal vans, empty homes, boxes full of belongings comes with a ripping apart of the social fabric.
In my son's class 4 families are leaving this year for instance 3/
In my son's class 4 families are leaving this year for instance 3/
They leave behind school friends, work colleagues, the volunteering they did for the PTA and local communities. It's not an exaggeration to say that this is hugely disruptive.
Ironic as Brexit was in part so-called a project for communities, including "left-behind" 4/
Ironic as Brexit was in part so-called a project for communities, including "left-behind" 4/
If you care about local communities, would you not care about such disruptions.
Unless, of course, Brexit is the project of bloodless, gentle ethnic cleansing.
An older form of state-building that has no place for the European project of increased integration. 5/
Unless, of course, Brexit is the project of bloodless, gentle ethnic cleansing.
An older form of state-building that has no place for the European project of increased integration. 5/
Curiously, know that the UK public is apparently now more pro-immigration than in the past decade or so. Maybe EU citizens leaving while fruit is rotting on the fields, and nursing vacancies stay unfilled is a wake up call? /ends
