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Monique Hawkins
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Dear @giles_fraser what an incredibly disingenuous article you have written here, deliberately conflating freedom of movement with taking responsibility for one's parents.

Let me take you through my own situation please. 1/
I am Dutch, and was incredibly lucky to get a place at a British university 35 years ago. Life happened, and I'm now married to a wonderful British man with two daughters.

I travel back to Holland very very frequently to see my widowed mum.

2/
Luckily, through Free Movement, I know (knew) that when the time comes that my mum needs more care from me, I can move to Holland for some years, or I could bring her here for me to look after her here in the UK instead.

3/
After the Brexit vote, one of the things I campaigned very hard for, was to safeguard those family reunion rights.

They were included in the withdrawal agreement.

4/
But in the case of no deal, the official POLICY is to take that right away from me.

So much for the benefits of no deal brexit that you're so keen on.

I guess your answer would be that I should've stayed put in Berkel, and not have had the temerity to take that uni offer.

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A quick personal thread about my experience, as an ordinary EU citizen in the UK, of trying to be heard by those in charge of Brexit negotiations, on both sides of the channel. There has been a shocking difference between the two sides. 1/
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And why @David_Goodhart (of Anywheres vs Somewheres) is fundamentally wrong about ID cards.
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So I'm an employer interviewing a candidate after March 2019. They're an EU citizen, haven't got a settled status document to show me, but assure me they've been here years, just haven't applied for the document yet as there's a grace period anyway. 1/7
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