This isn’t about travel. It’s about people being locked out of their own lives. And pretending otherwise doesn’t fix that. @180daysinspain.bsky.social @savefom.bsky.social

The problem with “there are visas available” is that none of them fit part-year lives. That’s the gap everyone keeps ignoring. @180daysinspain.bsky.social @savefom.bsky.social

Saying “nothing can be done” usually means “nothing is being tried”. @180daysinspain.bsky.social @savefom.bsky.social

This isn’t about travel privileges. It’s about whether people with lives in two countries are allowed to keep them. #VoicesofLostFOM #SaveFOM

He blocks us ! Sadly he is incapable of actually understanding our position.

Indeed but it will not address the loss of mobility freedoms . The single market is what we should also champion.

You’re making assumptions about what the author intended. It’s possible this is a communications mistake.

Part-year. Not part-time. Entirely lawfully before Brexit. Not “stretching” anything.

Then you’d qualify for a certificate of entitlement, wouldn’t you?

Then you should understand and be able to empathise with people who were not as fortunate as you have been to be protected.

It was to be expected that Labour would diss the LibDem proposal. All very well for someone in their 30s to say they want to see us rejoin EU in his lifetime. Most of us can't/won't wait that long! labourlist.org/2025/12/uk-e...

Please Sign and Share! Look at the news even just over the last 3 weeks. The ship has been turned around! If the government has a referendum BEFORE the next election, it can force parties to write their manifestos based upon the results. Rejoin can win! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

What do you think? Is @180daysinspain.bsky.social raising an important issue and helping keep the issue of rejoining the EU on the agenda in the UK? …or as @alarcos.bsky.social suggests… are they just trying to blame the EU for Brexit?

but a thinly veiled attempt to make the EU the culprit for the consequences of their own personal choices, and the choices of the UK polity between 2016-2021. The "fix" to their problem is in Westminster, in the voting-booths across the UK, and in patience to make the proper case for a way back in.

People like @180daysinspain.bsky.social had every opportunity to acquire the same 'settled-status'-like residency permit in the EU as we EU-migrants in the UK had. They now have the same opportunities to get a residence-visa as folks from other 3rd-countries have. Their "180/360-problem" is nothing

And he acted on it. You chose not to. Grow up, Andrew.

Don’t be bitter, Niall.

5 reasons European Freedom of Movement is good for workers: #1 it separates permission to reside from jobs. Workers are not held to ransom by unscrupulous employers in guest worker or indentured labour scenarios.

#2 it creates jobs because it makes it easy for other European entrepreneurs to set up businesses that create jobs for local people. And same for British entrepreneurs who can go to where there is ready skilled labour (or hire it in easily)

#3 it increases competition for labour. Because workers are free to go anywhere in the EEA & Switzerland without much red tape it lets them go where the pay is highest and the conditions and training is the best

#4 qualifications are recognised. If your skills are good enough in one country they are automatically good enough in another.

#5 it’s good for family life. It lets you choose a place to call home before you look for work. It puts the power back in the individual not industrialists who have people relocate for jobs. #VoicesofLostFOM #SaveFOM

No human should have to make sacrifices at all. That’s not protecting Citizens’ Rights, Jon. bsky.app/profile/jonh...

If you were responsible for the Withdrawal Agreement, Niall (we suspect you were not) then you drew the line in the wrong place and failed millions of people.

No he doesn’t. He’s a human being impacted by Brexit, just the same as others are.

As has everyone endured 6 years of red tape. You’re not special “Ibarruri lives” and are have no greater entitlement that another other Brit to the same protection.

Yes we want to restore mutual Freedom of Movement. In time perhaps join Schengen too.

Not really trying to force loopholes. More about demonstrating need behind things like single market. I’m anti-EU to these people because I’d like the UK back inside the EU. The UK is a threat to the EU in the eyes of these accounts, especially if it is insufficient humbled before rejoining.

I have always had the impression @andrewhesselden.bsky.social passionately wishes we'd never left & is constantly criticizing the UK, rather than the EU. He (rightly) feels the British are missing out & is making suggestions that the UK should adopt (which, basically, mean we should try to rejoin).

We don't need humility. We need politicians to get round a table a start with fixing the TCA, which doesn't work for people with lives in two countries @savefom.bsky.social

It’s true, the TCA doesn’t work very well for everyone.

Registering doesn’t solve the problem. These people are still not protected by the withdrawal agreement.

No. Barnier’s staircase was a presentation of the arrangements that already existed. But all of those were bespoke and unique solutions at the time of creation. So simply not true to say the UK could not have a unique and bespoke solution. The TCA is exactly that. bsky.app/profile/nial...

I'm saying Brexit in itself was unprecedented as will be the process of rejoining and, therefore, no one knows what truely is and isn't on & off the table.

It’s possible that Hesselden isn’t blaming the EU or any of its MSs or citizens for taking freedom of movement away from us. It’s the ‘brexiteers’ in Britain, including the succession of governments adopting Brexit as settled policy, who are to blame for that.

Well there’s nothing wrong with EU or EU27 immigration policies. They are what they are. But they don’t meet our needs after Brexit; in context they’re inadequate. It’s legitimate to recognise that. Otherwise why would we ever want to rejoin the EU? — if mobility + trade etc is sufficient.

I expect @anglo-european.bsky.social would just like the same kind of protection and treatment that you’ve received @ibarrurilives.bsky.social What about Anglo’s 🇪🇺 dream? bsky.app/profile/ibar...

Yeah. Freedom of Movement is mutual mobility within a finite area for a finite number of people. I don’t really think of that as immigration at all. I doubt many leave voters do either. It’s just redefining what home means. 84% of Brits support mutual Freedom of Movement anyway.

More actually. It’s 6 months every single time they visit. (Not per year).

I'm Irish. I can live in Spain for 6 months each year. I can vote in Spanish local and EU elections. I'm registered on my town's Padron. I pay taxes. My point is Spain is one of my homes. We need empathy with Brits who have lost these rights not tell them their attachment to their EU home is wrong.

It is not about residence rights. Residence rights do not make a place a home. And losing residence rights does not stop a place being a home. If I live half the year in Spain and half a year in UK. Which is my home? Which is not my home. How do you or governments get to replace my choice?

As an EU ctizen exercising my right to stay in Spain beyond 3 months I have a legal duty to be on the Padron via a certificado de empadronamiento.

All I can say is my Town Hall does not agree with you. Once I am registered by the National Police in the Registro Central de Extranjeros (Residencia ciudadano de la UE) because of staying more than 90 days, I am a resident and the ayuntamiento says I should be on the Padron.

Sin embargo, mi ayuntamiento no me exige residencia temporal para empadronarme. Les basta con que sea ciudadano de la UE con NIE y que posea o alquile una vivienda. Y cuando solicité la residencia definitiva hace unos años, me la denegaron porque no estaba empadronado. España puede ser confusa. 😇

This sounds a bit pedantic. I have two homes. One in Spain and one in England. This is quite separate from legal residency. I can only be legally resident in one country (and, in my case, I choose UK for simplicity). But when I'm in Spain, I'm in my "Spanish home" and when in UK I'm in my UK home.

Actually, Spanish Law gives me an empadronamiento entry too :)

Well a ferry ticket won't stop the channel crossings 😇 but it will move them to a safe, controlled route out of the reach of the criminal gangs.

The concept of home is not a legal construct. Home is where the heart is.

“ The UK is far from being an ordinary third country.“ Nathalie Loiseau MEP former co-Chair of the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership. Powerful words that demonstrate why it is reasonable and in order to seek a bespoke mobility agreement to address the 90 in 180 days problem.

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