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"A 95-year-old Italian man who has been in the UK for 68 years has been asked to prove he is resident in the country by the Home Office in order to remain after Brexit, despite receiving the state pension for the past 32 years." Unconnected thinking! theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/f…
Problem is, every figure you see for the number of people yet to apply for the Settlement Scheme is an estimate. There is quite literally no way for the UK Government to know how many people haven't yet - because they never bothered to keep records of who's here from the EU.
That means there's vast potential for a "Windrush on steroids" because the very elderly and vulnerable will be least likely to have completed the process (which involves using an app and/or travel). But Boris Johnson wants to turn employers and landlords into immigration spies.
It is a horrible, horrible situation. But I doubt there are many MPs amongst the chanting sycophants around Boris Johnson's Cabinet table who care...
Worth also noting that the ever helpful Immigration Service has a quasi-covert programme whereby it quietly offers to lend staff to large firms (for a fee!) so that they can act as moles to police the immigration status of employees...
theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/f…
The Withdrawal Agreement may have "protected the rights of EU citizens", but left unsaid in all the glib talk is the fact it will only protect those rights for EU citizens who manage to run the gauntlet of the Settlement Scheme by the agreed deadlines.
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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡, 🇬🇧 🔜 🇪🇺
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Seems to be a lot of confusion around the rights of UK citizens so I'll have a stab at explaining...

Before Brexit, we could have lived and worked in any EU country, including the right to move from one EU country to another, while keeping the same rights.
The Withdrawal Agreement provides for a few things:
A) the right to stay living in a EU27 country indefinitely (though may be conditions, just as there were before Brexit)
B) the right to move to an EU27 country before 31 Dec 2020, in which case A) applies
What changes is, the right to live is no longer portable across the whole EU.

So say you live in Spain or move to Spain before 31 Dec 2020. You can keep living in Spain after 31 Dec 2020 under the same conditions as before. But you couldn't just up sticks to e.g. Germany.
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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡, 🇬🇧 🔜 🇪🇺
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Wetherspoon have said they're only going to use Fairtrade sugar, which is produced by Tate & Lyle. But as always seems to be the case, there's a lot more to the story than meets the eye... T&L's competitor grows sugar in Norfolk. T&L does so overseas.
theguardian.com/business/2020/…
T&L are super pro Brexit because they saw an opportunity to bypass the EU's tariffs on the sugar T&L imports. (Assuming the UK plays ball and sets a lower tariff or no tariff on cane sugar). In doing so they're taking trade away from UK-based beet farmers.
vip.politicsmeanspolitics.com/2019/09/23/day…
And T&L are an American firm, and there's a whole dodgy connection to David Davis, and yada yada yada. The whole sorry tale is laid out in the story at the previous tweet.

So "Fairtrade" sounds good... until you know the details. After that, in this particular case, it's 🤮
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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡, 🇬🇧 🔜 🇪🇺
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I expect you know this, but it's important so it bears repeating...

Article 50 no longer applies to the UK. It ceased to apply the moment we left the EU on 31 January 2020 at 11pm.

So no matter how badly the Brexit negotiations go, there's no "remain" option any more.
Other vital thing to note: that doesn't magically transform Brexit into a good idea!

Brexit is governed by facts. The treaties and trade agreements we shredded on leaving the EU. Geography. The Withdrawal Agreement, etc.

All the facts still point to Brexit being a disaster.
We have no obligation to join the Brexit cult. We have no obligation to pray for a good outcome, believe in it or take any other action that has no causal bearing on the situation. Leave that to Leave cultists.

What we should continue to do is hold a magnifying glass to reality.
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LouiseV
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#Brexit IS about escaping tax + financial #transparency. Conservatives and their donors are terrified of wealth being exposed. UK govt HAVE NOT transposed EU's 5th anti-money laundering directive by the deadline. See here... researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefi…
The EU's 5th #AML Directive requires 'public registers of beneficial owners' of companies. Tory leaders since 2015 desperately tried to exempt UK trusts, crown dependencies + tax havens from this law. Will expose vested interests + tax evaders. Hence #brexit haste.
In fact they don't intend to implement the public registers of company ownership in UK crown dependencies fully, EVER.
It would be the end of them.

Other EU countries don't have such lax donor and registration rules so don't appreciate the shockwaves caused by 5th AML in UK.
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tony nog #FBPE
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Remain already has a majority without any support from Corbyn

Does anyone really think we'd be doing #Brexit, much less no deal Brexit, if Labour had campaigned unequivocally for Remain with a charasmatic, committed leader these past 2 years?

This is the real betrayal 1/
Labour has sat on the fence, following rather than leading on #Brexit whilst nurturing & indulging a brexiter at the helm

So every single Labour MP has been neutered because the follow on question to "Tory Brexit is bad" is always "well, what would you do?"

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The Labour Brexit plan just gets laughed at because it's such a fudge

Thus Labour have contributed precisely nothing in TV debates on this 3/
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Rosie Memos
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A 91 year old Hispanic man was badly beaten in LA by this woman and her friends and told to “go back to his country” In a bizarre twist @CNN @HuffPost @nowthisnews @KTLA @BuzzFeed @thehill all refuse to show her picture despite @LASDHQ seeking her identity. Please share.
The video is graphic but this man deserves justice.
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We’ll just chalk this up to sloppy reporting right? Not all of media trying to make people assume it’s “evil KKK Trump supporters” right? Because so far that’s what all of Twitter is saying.
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Nicolai von Ondarza
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"#Brexit and EU agencies", our extensive look into third country relationships of the 36 EU agencies and how the UK might fit in.

swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/cont…

Albeit largely technical, agencies will have huge implications on Brexit.

Five points stand out in particular:
First, Agencies matter. Like the customs union, they are a technical aspect of the EU, that works and was thus hardly discussed in the UK before #Brexit.
But they are important for single market, but also justice and home affairs.

UK gov thus has already asked to continue participation in selected agencies, in particular in sectors important to the UK economy, like aviation, chemicals or pharma.
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KidTempo #FBPE
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#Remain voted for:

A say in whether the EU enlarges or not.
A say in if the EU federalises or remains a union of independent states.
A say in if there is an EU army.
Being the financial capital through which the majority of € is traded while still keeping the £.

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#EnlargedEurope

The UK has taken the lead in efforts for EU enlargement. It pushed for the inclusion of Eastern European states. It pushed for Turkey to get its shit together so that it could join (which it made very slow progress with, and has largely been undone by Erdogan)
After #Brexit, the UK will have no influence on EU enlargement. In fact, as setting the EU as a rival, every country that joins the EU will a) strengthen the EU, and b) unravels any trade deals that the UK will have made with that country, isolating it further.
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Jon Worth
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Even by the standards of the #Brexit saga so far, it has been a harrowing week. This thread summarises it all. (1/11)
Davis talked about Czechoslovakia in Commons, while boasting he had good knowledge of the rest of Europe 🇨🇿🇪🇺
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