"EU citizens are being sent to immigration removal centres and held in airport detention rooms as the UKโs 'hostile environment' policy falls on themย after Brexit. Even Europeans with job interviews are among those being denied entry and locked up."
I hope all those European journalists who haven't wanted to believe so far that the UK is now run by fascists will read this, and finally realise that the old Britain they loved so much is dead.
This is what it says on the UK government website .... I don't see why it's okay to get paid for giving a speech at a conference without a work permit, but it's not okay to attend a job interview that you've been invited to without one. For clarity, these are the UK rules.
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"Marta, 24, was sent to the Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre. All her personal belongings were seized. 'My window had bars, the walls barbed wire'. Another young woman from Tuscany had been held there 5 days. Dozens of EU citizens have suffered the same fate since Jan 1st."
Never forget ...
Scotland has the GDP of Hungary, but with a smaller population. It has extensive fishing wsters, a surplus of green energy, an international identity and world class products & services. An independent Scotland in the EU would also attract many English businesses
Scotland also has the same Human Development Index rating as Austria
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(HDI is a statistic composite index that combines life expectancy, education and per capita income.)
As for those saying Scottish EU membership "won't be easy", they're lying. Leading EU stakeholders have repeatedly promised Scotland fast full membership. Why? Because they all know that Scotland BELONGS in the EU! ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ ๐ช๐บ
A thread from German news:
"You don't hear much about Brexit in the UK these days. Which is astonishing, just 3 months after the biggest change in British post-war history. The reality, however, is that in the slipstream of the pandemic, Brexit damage is steadily increasing."
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"Yet the most astonishing thing about the current situation is not that no one on the island wants to talk about Brexit and its consequences anymore, the most astonishing thing is that Johnson is still unable to explain to anyone why these sacrifices were actually necessary."
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"The much-heralded trade deal with the USA is still a long way off, and comparable deals with India and other former colonial territories are unrealistic in the medium term. The mantra of a new 'Global Britain' has so far remained nothing but an empty phrase."
"An increasing number of UK companies are fast-tracking digital transformation. Many of these initiatives incorporate automation technologies such as natural-language processing, machine-learning-enabled optical character recognition and conversational artificial intelligence."
And here's the Nobel prize winner who warned us that limiting free movement would indeed lead to more automation. And that, in turn, could lead to fewer jobs for everyone.
Nicola Sturgeon is a great leader. Both politically and as a "mensch". She's intelligent, honest and tough. She's also given Scotland a stature on the world stage that it could only have dreamed of under her predecessor. She's the leader Scotland needs.
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Remember: Nicola Sturgeon just had to answer more questions than the whole UK government ever did on Russian interference in the Brexit vote. Truth is, they want to destroy Sturgeon because they want to keep Scotland tied to their Westminster Brexit. And they know she can end it.