Julia πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ ΏπŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Profile picture
Hamburger who became a Frankfurter and now lives in Haggisland. Bio since I started tweeting, didn't realise it would end up being a "political" statement
Nov 24, 2018 β€’ 7 tweets β€’ 3 min read
What a week in the life of an EU migrant in the UK.
Before 24th June 2016, @The3Million of us were just your neighbours, your friends, your teachers, carers, colleagues...
That changed dramatically over night, we became bargaining chips in a political game. 1/ Players on UK side made us scapegoats for almost everything that had gone wrong in years of self inflicted austerity. With the support of mainstream media the lies of EU migrants coming to UK stealing jobs, undercutting wages while simultaneously claiming benefits kept coming /2