And if you had been able to move fully and stayed more than 6 months of the year to retain your protection in Spain that would be a change in lifestyle and required changes in the UK or other places you lived too. Expecting people to change and move (in either direction) isn’t protecting them.

We’re at a tipping point. As we go into 2026, a majority of 2016 voters still alive voted Remain.

@savefom.bsky.social calls for the UK to rejoin the single market and aims to improve British attitudes onwards mutual reciprocal people mobility in particular. It doesn’t demand anything from the EU.

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

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

Are British citizens keen to see Freedom of Movement restored with the EEA and Switzerland? Yes or no? Why?

Are EU citizens keen to see restored Freedom of Movement with the UK? Yes or no? Why?

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?

Bold but perhaps rather unkind. What do you think?

#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

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

#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

#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)

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.

Can you help us reach more people to spread the word about Freedom of Movement? Would you like me to speak to your group about freedom of Movement in the New Year? @savefom.bsky.social

Thread on solving the 90-in-180 day problem 🧵 The solutions to the 90-in-180 day problem are many and varied. Politicians really have **no** excuse for inaction. Any of the following provide models for solutions or are solutions in themselves…

Enabling freedom of movement is vital for strengthening the UK economy, and rejoining the Erasmus+ programme would be an important step towards achieving this.

Every generation understands how important freedom of movement is for young people. It's time for the British Government to rejoin Erasmus+, to empower students with invaluable opportunities to study, work, and experience life across Europe.

Brexit has increased costs, increased red tape, and slowed employment growth in the music industry. People from across the industry have been affected, from artists and crew unable to tour, to musicians and DJs who are losing out on bookings.

Brexit means we are losing out on some of the biggest talent in the world, and some of the UK's biggest talent are emigrating to Europe. We must restore freedom of movement.

Brexit is holding back one of the UK’s strongest creative exports, with musicians paying the price for Brexit through cancelled tours and lost work. We are calling for a reciprocated agreement and a review of the restrictions on how many days an artist and support workers can work in the EU.

Read our new report on why the UK needs Erasmus+ here:

By the end of 2026, tens of thousands of young people could have their freedom of movement restored, and experience invaluable opportunities to study, work, and experience life across Europe. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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

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.

This is why I don’t buy into the idea of having one single big super-#rejoinEU campaign instead of smaller groups We are more effective I think with lots of different energetic groups. It’s fine to have different groups. But what matters is that we lend support and amplification to each other.

The UK already has a kind of Schengen zone. It’s called the CTA www.gov.uk/government/p...

UK voters back reciprocal UK-EU Freedom of Movement by 3-to-1. It's ridiculous that Freedom of Movement still discussed as a barrier to the UK rejoining the Single Market or EU. Its a benefit of Single Market membership! www.politico.eu/article/poll...

I am afraid that is not so. Granting of residency is done by the member state and has no impact on EU freedom of movement.

Does anyone actually support visa free travel? Or Freedom of Movement? Or do people prefer visas? Because I’m thinking of winding up @savefom.bsky.social

If this is true, why do even remainer politicians persist in saying that the public won’t accept Freedom of Movement? @yorkshirebylines.co.uk yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...

The people of our continent deserve better from our politicians.

Can you imagine if Brexit were exposed as a democratic failure, our friends in Europe realised it wasn’t a vote that rejected them and that everyone just agreed to forget the whole sorry affair and to nullify the entire act of leaving the EU. What an elegant and clean solution…

Is the Starmer government getting ready to tear up their Brexit red lines? We certainly hope so. A Customs Union & dynamic alignment on standards will give the economy a much needed boost. It needs to happen soon, and the EU will need things in return. 🧵(1/3) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The polls already show that Reform voters support rejoining the single market.

There’s no evidence that more than a third of leave voters were concerned about immigration. Even fewer about FOM.

Freedom of Movement isn’t really about immigration anyway. It’s mutual mobility in a finite area with a finite population. It is subject to conditions. It’s redefining what home means

Freedom of Movement has nothing to do with wage stagnation. These are largely economic decisions of the government.

Well, that’s more to do with IR35 and arbitrage of living costs. Isn’t it?

There’s no evidence that leave voters wanted to end FOM in any majority

No, but it wasn’t about ending FOM. That was a post event attempt to rationalise an unexpected outcome

FOM is necessary to have freedom of movement of services.

It brought competition. Some people didn’t like competition. But it tends to be better for consumers.

Worth remembering that Brexit was won using sophisticated digital advertising techniques which segmented people according to the topics that mattered most to them. The impression you got about Brexit will differ according to where you live. This is why nobody can agree what Brexit was about.

That’s because their cost base was much lower. They may have paid much less tax. Which is why I suggest IR35.

I'm a legal resident of France but have no freedom of movement because I have a British passport .

I don't want to spend any days out of France, I've lived here for over 30 years! I was merely pointing out that my WA carte de sejour does not give me freedom of movement because I have a British passport.

Opponents deride everything as exceptionalism. Brexit is unique and needs unique solutions to ensure that current and former EU citizens have their rights protected. Does it make it any better if the changes are bigger and benefit more Brits? Or do you prefer smaller niche solutions?

Is the withdrawal agreement exceptionalism? Is the TCA exceptionalism? Both are bespoke and highly unusual agreements.

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