#RishiSunak is delluded, access for financial services but not for IT, creatives, those who work on site in EEA are ruined. @SkyNews you must represent the voices of those in all services
#RishiSunak "anyone who is worried about the economic implications of the breach with Brussels should be "enormously reassured about the comprehensive nature" of the agreement". Utter bollocks @NE4EU
@SkyNews "A #Brexitdeal without services is a #noDeal" said Lord Clancarty. There are no #mobility frameworks for UK citizens to work on site in EEA. 45,000 IT contractors work in Europe. I've written about this for the @NE_Bylinetimes
@SkyNews ironic.. government could have always controlled immigration from Europe using treaties (after 3 months those with no job or money to live off+heath insurance, would have to leave) May never used it in home office.
Thread: I have digested implications of #BrexitDeal for independent software services professionals. Big omissions, still big restrictions. Government was offered the chance to speak to us but never accepted our help. So they have messed up.
2/ Professionals must have 6 years experience and a degree. p 88 of the trade deal states that only direct work business to business or professional to business customer is allowed, thus disallowing project work via agencies... Big mistake.
3/ Most freelance professionals use agencies to source project work, if not agencies a 'broker' for projects for administrative purposes. Trade deal makes no difference between these 2 concepts.
Thread: @mrjamesob a friend heard on show this morning & that you were surprised British applications for a Ryanair cabin crew would be ruled out by the following requirement -
Applicants must have unrestricted right to live and work in the EU.
@mrjamesob We had that as #EUcitizens. #Brexit removed that right from us on Jan 31, but we do have right to live/work in Europe during transition while UK observes rules of single market. On Jan 1 2021, we lose that right. I wrote about this ages ago, see pinned tweet
@mrjamesob 'Freedom of movement' gave us right to live/work countries in single market, 30 in total.
(If you want to stay for over 3 months, you need to prove income or financial resources &
have health insurance cover). UK could have used those controls on immigration & did not.