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Elizabeth still a citizen of the EU. Still #FBPE.

21 Jun, 5 tweets, 1 min read

“Unsurprisingly, the value of the UK passport has collapsed, passing from the top 10 to a much more mediocre place: the rights attached to it are now equivalent to Argentine or Brazilian nationalities.”
(Prof Alberto Alemanno, Prof Dimitry Kochenov, open letter, Le Monde)

Their joint open letter begins: “The most dramatic consequence of Brexit is the loss of European citizenship for British people..."

The letter highlights that UK citizens had previously been free to travel in the EU, and even live there, and “had the right to not be discriminated against and to be treated as a national in each EU member state, whatever their nationality”.

It states that while Britons do still have the right to stay in the EU without a visa for 90 days within 180, this right is “not unconditional”, and that “the status of a UK citizen after Brexit in Europe is now equivalent to that of a Chinese tourist...

....with the exception that the land and the economy of the UK are not comparable to those of China”

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@ElizabethBangs

23 Jun

23rd June 2016 Five years ago today
The four freedoms: goods, persons, services and capital - all lost.
To commemorate the destruction of our FOM in 27 countries, here's a list.
The treatment of EU citizens in the UK is worthy of another whole thread.
#Brexit #23June
Here goes:

British passport holders have lost:

1. Our right as a citizen whether rich or poor, to live in any of 27 other countries whatever our qualifications, connections, background

2. Our right to live with a partner we love from any of 27 other countries in any of 27 other countries

3. Our right to live with our children from any of 27 other countries in any of 27 other countries

4. Our right to bring our EU partner to live with us in the UK

5. Our right to bring our EU children to live with us in the UK

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@ElizabethBangs

12 May

Listening to past Labour leaders who have spectacularly not won elections attempting to advise a current labour leader on how to win them, is like asking Icarus for flying lessons.
I haven't the answer. But I can start with a version of the problem.
<thread>1/10

Only three Labour leaders have *EVER* won an election: 1) Attlee - immediately after the war, when the population felt like winners on a run of winning
2) 'White heat of technology' - Wilson
3) Education, education, education, opportunity and aspiration - Blair
2/10

No Labour leader has *ever* won appealing to the masses to realise, finally, that they are poor stupid oppressed losers needing a helping hand; 'a govt of the losers, for the losers, by the losers' is hardly going to rally the nation in a tide of optimism.
3/10

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@ElizabethBangs

31 Dec 19

@uklabour

OK @uklabour let's actually start a period of reflection.

1. "We won the argument."

No. We didn't. We lost the argument, the argument was derided, the argument was mocked and ridiculed, there was utter contempt for the argument.
Therefore, we were slaughtered as predicted.

2. "It wasn't Corbyn it was Brexit."

They were one and the same. Brexit crap was Corbyn crap, Corbyn crap was Brexit crap. Everyone could see Corbyn was conflicted and had rationalised the situation into pretending indecision was conciliation. It was transparent nonsense.

3. "MSM was biased. Corbyn was attacked unfairly."

This is not a zero-sum game of media/Corbyn. The media *was* biased. But a leader's job is to have a strategy to deal with this. None was evident. Milne's £100k a year job was strategy and communications; what was he doing?

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