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Raab said "The first priority of the UK in negotiating our withdrawal from the EU was to reach agreement on the rights of our citizens."

A brief reminder about how much of a priority we were. 1/

theguardian.com/politics/2016/…
"That includes the 3.5 million EU citizens that live in the UK and are valued members of their communities and play an integral part in the life of this country."

It depends what you mean with "valued". As long as we can be milked for taxes? 2/

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"Likewise, the approximately one million UK nationals who currently live in the EU are equally valued by their host countries and communities."

There is zero chance @BritishInEurope can continue lives as before if Brexit happens 3/

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"The agreement reached on citizens’ rights will allow EU citizens in the UK and UK nationals in the EU to live their lives broadly as they do now."

Ahem. Like Commonwealth citizens now? Hopefully they won't change the rules 4/

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"and will enable families who have built their lives in the EU and UK to stay together."

Well, let's hope so....British who are married to non-EU citizens beg to differ 5/

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"The most important next step will be to provide a continued right of residence for those citizens."

We certainly don't want situations like this one: 6/

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"EU citizens lawfully residing in the UK on the 31st of December 2020 will be able to stay."

You mean like non-EU commonwealth citizens with indefinite leave to remain? It's not really indefinite...Story below has happy ending. Many others don't 7/

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"And this month, the Home Office published further details about how EU citizens and their families can obtain settled status in the UK."

Better switch to Android now! 8/

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"And that statement confirms that the Settlement Scheme will be simple and straightforward for EU citizens and their families to secure their long-term status in this country."

Simple, straightforward, hopefully quick? 9/

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"The Bill will ensure EU citizens can rely on the rights set out in the Withdrawal Agreement, and enforce them in UK courts."

Like that "handful" of wrongfully, unlawfully deported number of Windrush generation British citizens? 10/

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"It will also establish an independent monitoring authority to oversee the UK’s implementation of the deal on citizens’ rights, providing further reassurance to citizens."

Better not make any mistakes and hope HO don't make mistakes 11/

freemovement.org.uk/what-happens-i…
Postscript: the task of registering >5 million citizens, many of whom never worked (children, carers) is unprecedented.
The UK home office is designed to be incompetent. There is simply no possible world where this won't lead to tragedies, split families.
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Quite frankly I was disappointed at #PVOxford that enfranchising EU citizens was not even seen as a serious option.
From lazy scroungers and criminals, we've now become people who are tolerated bc they make contributions. We're paying guests. 1/
As long as #PeoplesVote does not enfranchise EU citizens in the UK, we risk becoming very much the topic of the vote (ending free movement still touted as a big win in the deal), not actually being able to influence the vote. 2/
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A lot has been said on May's queue jumper comments and her non-apology, but one thing has not been looked at in detail, to my knowledge, namely how the UK government's stubborn refusal to understand or correctly represent freedom of movement infantilizes British citizens 1/
Freedom of movement is a reciprocal right that British citizens also enjoy, and that many have used to work, study, retire in the EU. It is not a special privilege EU citizens enjoy to jump any sort of queue (a queue I might add that May and her ilk have installed & tightened) 2/
For example, I have a very clever student, a British citizen without additional citizenship, who wants to do a master's, eventually a PhD and he's looking into programmes in the EU (e.g., Paris) for this. But I had to tell him, I have no idea how it will be with Brexit 3/
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Should we feel sorry for Theresa May? Well, whenever I feel my heart softening towards May I recall
1/ the racist go home or face deportation vans she rolled out as Home Secretary.
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2/ the fact that as Home Secretary she suppressed nine official reports showing that migration in fact benefits the UK economy and gives a net tax boost. Can't let those pesky facts get in the way of xenophobia after all!

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3/ the fact that in 2014 May wrongfully revoked the visas of legitimate non-EU citizens who came here as students, and ordered their deportation.
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Let's be clear about this: 'Queue-jumpers' is a demeaning and disgusting phrase to describe EU nationals who came here exercising treaty rights that British citizens also have. It's entirely deliberate, shameful and inexcusable to use this kind of language.
It's a calculated appeal to British xenophobia - aimed at stoking hatred and resentment and using immigration to drive through May's deeply-flawed Brexit plan. It's deliberately divisive - playing one group of foreigners against another in the name of 'fairness'.
It implies that the 3.4 million EU nationals living in the UK are cheats, doing something sneaky and dishonest and prejudicial to others - a suggestion that would presumably apply to Brits living in the EU if true, though May wouldn't dream of saying this.
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001/ [article content in this tweet series 001-180 reproduced with permission from Martin Howe QC of Lawyers for Britain @lawyers4britain]
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Translation from @DominicRaab-ese into English: gov.uk/government/new…

Translation from @DominicRaab-ese into English:
"We have reached agreement [...] on the rights of the [...] citizens that have chosen to make their home in [...] the EU."
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"We have abandoned the citizens that have chosen to make their home in the EU -they'll just have to sort things out themselves with each country".
"We have reached agreement[...] on the rights of the [...] citizens that have chosen to make their home in [...] the UK."
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