Not just Sky!!! UK operators are no longer free to supply audiovisual
services in the EU with UK licence. So no Freeview, Virgin etc. Also with a UK subscription U won't be able to watch Netflix, NowTV, AmazonPrime, or listen to Spotify, AppleMusic in your pool in Tuscany. 1/
The UK has left the EU Digital Single Market & the Audiovisual Media Services Directive no longer applies. The EU had issued
guidance for broadcasters & video streaming services, to state that after Brexit ‘persons residing in the UK 2/
would no longer benefit from their digital content subscriptions when travelling to the EU’. Television was also regulated by the Audiovisual Media Services Directive. Post-Brexit we will default to the European Convention on Transfrontier TV of 1989 when the UK only had 4 TV 3/
channels. Nothing like the enormous choices we have
available today & doesn't cover on demand services.
Not only could this have a big impact at home, it could also hit British broadcasters selling their programmes abroad 4/
I have not seen anything in the PCA which contradicts the above. Another benefit of Brexit which no doubt the "expats" who voted for Brexit were fully aware of. After all, they never tire to tell us they knew what they voted for. #BrexitDividend /End

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Still no answers to important questions on the government's vaccine policy as reported in the Guardian.
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