Thread by @ElizabethBangs

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

6. Our right to go to 27 other countries simply to seek work

7. Our right to go to 27 other countries for seasonal work, hospitality work, farm work, construction work, care work, childcare, teaching, au pair work, work needing qualifications, work not needing qualifications

8. Our right to go to 27 other countries to gain work experience, do internships

9. Our right to go to any of 27 other countries for long enough to learn the language

10. Our right to go to 27 other countries to take a job that could kick-start a career

11. Our right to go to 27 other countries join a pan-European group eg a scientific research project, an archaeological dig, an environmental initiative, a sports team

12. Our right to travel as musicians or as part of the music industry, individually or in a group, to play at gigs, to entertain in concerts, to learn, to practise, to mix and develop, to be part of the 27 other countries of Europe

13. Our right to go to 27 other countries to work as actors, performers, writers, poets, artists, architects, techies, geeks, gamers, free-lancers or in start-ups, alone or in groups, teams, partnerships

14. Our right to own or work in companies or industries in 27 other countries which operate seamless frictionless trade with 27 other countries either from the UK or between other countries

15. Our right to join the EU conversation with 27 other countries and contribute ideas on the social, economic, political and environmental direction of their own continent

16. Our even right to apply for jobs advertised in any of 27 other countries needing EU citizenship

17. Our right simply to travel - whether by bike, on foot, with a van, a backpack, by train, by bus, by hire car - for any more than 90 days in every 180, in the Schengen area

18. Our right to access Erasmus and a host of other educational opportunities/exchanges across Europe

19. Our right to study at any of the schools, colleges and universities throughout Europe

20. Our right to come and go, when we like, as many times as like or need to, from Manchester to Madrid, from Dundee to Dunkirk, from Penzance to Pisa just as we go from London to Liverpool, from Birmingham to Belfast

21. Our right to rent a room or buy a home in any of 27 other countries and live in it for any more than 90 days in every 180, in the Schengen area

22. Our right to visit a home we or our friends or family may already own now or have owned for many years, for any more than 90 days in every 180, in the Schengen area

23. Our right to visit loved ones, whether family or friends, whether healthy, sick, dying, being born, young, middle-aged or very old - for any more than 90 days in every 180, in the Schengen area

24. Our right to retire in any of 27 other countries without being stonking rich, i.e. even on a meagre pension

25. Our right to live without discrimination in any of 27 other countries

Three more points:

1. British citizens with a close relationship, eg a parent or grandparent from one of the EU countries have been able to apply for passports from those countries. If you haven’t any such relative, that’s just tough. There are now therefore two classes of citizens in the UK.

2. Perhaps those who had dual passports or the right to them shouldn't have been able to campaign to strip rights from citizens who didn't have that possibility, some of whom were even denied the right to vote. However, Gisela, those people did campaign.
So here we are.

3. If any Brexiter would like to add an even longer thread of gains made to compensate the losses, be my guest.
By the way, I haven't included things like 'loss of identity' so don't include 'sovereignty'. Keep it concrete or quantifiable.
Go ahead: