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Graham Hughes Profile picture
@EveryCountry
Jun 29, 2020 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
To be clear: if you're a Brit & don't have dual-nationality, without a #Brexit extension, from Jan 1st you will only be able to spend 90 days at a time in France, Spain etc., possibly up to a limit of 180 days a year. Unless you're minted you can forget about retirement...

/1
...in the sunshine. No more EHIC cards for Brits: you'll have to pay for health insurance. If you're over 65 & have existing health problems it'll be extortionate. If you don't get insurance & get ill or have an accident on holiday, you'll be hit with an unpayable bill.

/2
Compared with that bombshell, this seems relatively unimportant, but:

➡ No more fast-track EU queue through the airport

➡ Customs charges & handling fees on things posted from the EU will be a thing

➡ No more booze cruises: 2 bottles of wine OR a bottle of spirits max

/3

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Dec 27, 2020
"The tangible benefits of #Brexit." A thread.

For the EU, the tangible benefits of Brexit have been immense. Not just in the way it has galvanised support for the EU across the bloc, but in the way that the UK has made itself...

/1
...the least competitive advanced economy in the world. Don't forget -- we're no longer a trading partner of the EU, but its main trading rival, and considering both their population and economy is 7x bigger than ours, we don't stand a chance.

/2
(Remember Boris Johnson's famous mutterings about business...? Something that could only have been said by a man born into fabulous wealth and privilege...)

/3
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Dec 10, 2020
Have the people of Kent grasped how deeply unpleasant their lives are going to be after the #Brexit they voted for? The miles of queuing lorries. The diesel fumes toxifying every breath. The low, sonorous & incessant hum of 7,000 idling engines, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. /1
Human excrement seeping from tens of thousands of plastic bags, strewn along the grass verges, hanging from leafless trees & metal barriers. Bottles of piss lining the hard shoulder of the M20. All this left for the youth of Kent to somehow deal with. What a job to aspire to. /2
The unrelenting stench of hundreds of vandalised portaloos. The acrid smoke rising from the one or two a day that'll no doubt be set on fire... the devil makes work for idle hands. The shitwagons stuck in a 26 mile tailback while the toilets they service overflow. /3
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Nov 27, 2020
Remarkably, there's yet another layer of misery that #Brexit is about to heap on the country, this time on hard-working British families that wish to stay together when a loved one becomes ill.

/1
I know from bitter experience how tough it is to get ANY help from the government (if you didn't go to school with the posh thieving bastards).

In January 2018 I applied for Carer's Allowance to help look after my dad who is suffering from vascular dementia. £67.25 a week.

/2
(= £11,999,998,386 less than was given over a six-month period to Dido Harding's failed Serco Track and Trace service.)

What I didn't know was that they take into account the amount of time you've spent outside of the EU in the years leading up to your application.

/3
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Nov 12, 2020
➡ Businesses will collapse
➡ The car industry will die
➡ Farmers will go bankrupt
➡ Healthy food will be more expensive
➡ Empty shelves in the supermarket
➡ Children will go hungry
➡ The UK will become the least competitive advanced economy in the world

#BrexitReality
➡ Domestic industry will be decimated by Chinese knock-offs
➡ Substandard US food will be the norm
➡ EHIC cards no longer valid, making travel insurance more expensive
➡ Working in the EU? You'll need a work permit
➡ No more mandatory free roaming

#BrexitReality
➡ Kent to become a giant lorry park
➡ Sunderland to become a wasteland
➡ Hull fishing industry to go under
➡ UK universities that rely on EU students to go bankrupt
➡ £1,200,000,000,000 (£1.2 trillion) worth of UK assets stripped, transferred to EU

#BrexitReality
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Nov 10, 2020
POST-BREXIT FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS (FTAs) A Global View.

Here is a map of the world. The countries and territories marked in blue are regarded as having an "advanced economy" according to the IMF.

Not many, are there? Image
The sad fact is that the majority of the world's population simply cannot afford the products & services the UK exports. The countries in blue must be our focus.

However, the EU & US have made it clear there'll be no FTAs if the UK govt doesn't change course. I'll remove them. Image
That leaves a handful of countries that have advanced economies but aren't the US or in the EU. Unfortunately for the UK, of those that remain, nearly all have existing FTAs with the EU, deals that cannot BY LAW be bettered by subsequent agreements. I'll remove them. Image
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Oct 9, 2020
In May, the UK government promised a “world beating” Test and Trace system. Here is my experience of using that system.

I’m currently at my parent’s house in Liverpool helping my mum look after my 83-year-old dad who suffers from advanced vascular dementia.

/1
In August my dad stopped eating and refused to drink. At the start of September he was rushed to hospital with kidney failure. He spent two weeks on the ward before being discharged. We now have carers coming to the house four times a day in minimum PPE.

/2
Last Thursday (Oct 1st), my mum and I both developed coughs. Erring on the side of caution - since my dad is so high risk - my mum went for a Covid test first thing on Friday morning. So far so good, Liverpool has a drop-in testing facility at Allerton Library.

/3
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