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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

@burtonlisa

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Vice-Chair @bremaininspain -European Movement UK National Exec @euromove - Contributing writer @yorksbylines - Comp Director, campaigner, immigrant. Own opinion

Las Palmas, Spain

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Joined June 2010

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

8 months

My speech yesterday @MarchForRejoin Only British people have lost freedom of movement - putting only our children and families at a huge disadvantage to our European neighbours. If you celebrate this fact, you are no patriot! #RejoinEU

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"There are 3 million British immigrants living in the EU.. After Brexit, moving to an EU country is only an option for the privileged few.. Freedom of movement has gone, but only for the British people. 450 million Europeans, no matter their income, background or social class,…

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A reminder that there were practically zero small boat crossings before Britain left the European Union. There are reasons for that, but no one talks about - one of them is the Dublin agreement that allowed returns.

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Unelected bureaucrat David Cameron explains how we need the Rwanda plan because of Brexit 🤦‍♂️ Anushka Asthana, "Hand on heart. If this had come up when you were PM, would you have gone with this Rwanda policy?" David Cameron, "We had a situation where you could return people…

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

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Last night I watched @BylineTV documentary ‘The Truth about Brexit: Britain Betrayed Very different from other docs. It’s a must watch Heartbreaking personal stories & insightful commentary. I dare anyone to watch & not conclude Brexit betrayed us all

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

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@MarinaPurkiss Honestly, the willingness of people to blame those with absolutely nothing instead of those above them who hold total power to change their lives is quite astounding. It’s infuriating. People need to learn to punch up, not down.

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

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It’s ‘Follow Back Friday’ so, after 11 years of having a Twitter account, and several years tweeting for a pro-European campaign group, I think it’s time I try to expand on my huge following of ... 10 Will, of course follow back #FBPE #ProEU

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

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The likes of Nigel Farage & Andrew Neil are treating the closure of Port Talbot steelworks, which will devastate an already struggling community, as another gaslighting opportunity to push far right lies on net zero The real reason is Brexit & an utterly incompetent government

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BREAKING: Lay-offs in Port Talbot are due to Brexit and not Net Zero says Ex First Minister, Carwyn Jones. “The Net Zero argument is utter nonsense”

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8 months

The campaign by @EUFlagsTeam certainly caused a stir Big thanks to Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, Isabel Oakeshott, Nile Gardner etc for bringing so much attention to the campaign & for exposing their 'free speech' hypocrisy, & faux patriotism @YorksBylines

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Free speech hypocrites and fake patriotism exposed: EU flags at the Proms

What is the real meaning of patriotism? Lisa Burton argues that those waving EU flags at the Proms are more patriotic than those who attack them

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

1 year

This abnormal obsession with Harry and Meghan is gross. Playing on bigotry, misogyny and sheer ugliness, all for money If you ever wanted proof of overkill by the media against Harry and Meghan Express alone published over 100 articles about the couple in just 72 hours!

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I've summarised the facts about Harry and Meghan below. There's frankly very little to say about them. Despite this, The Express managed to publish over 100 articles about the couple over the last 72H, more than 90% negative. Some articles were brutally aggressive and insulting.

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

8 months

It was a great day! The faux patriots are shouting us down because they are in panic mode. They know the fantasy of Brexit is falling apart. The will of the people has changed - We are the majority! #RejoinEUMarch

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Terry Reintke

8 months

What an amazing day. What an amazing march. What an amazing crowd. 🇪🇺❤️🇬🇧 Ten of thousands of people in the streets of London saying loud and clear that they want to rejoin the EU. With this commitment and the polls steadily growing, it is even clearer: Our door remains open.

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@GBNEWS Let’s fix this tweet for you. Man with huge ego, insecurity issues and desperate for attention, tries to use @GretaThunberg to gain likes and follows. She takes him down with the perfect comeback #SmallDickEnergy

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yes, please do enlighten me. email me at smalldickenergy @getalife .com

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@terrychristian Likewise but Harry & Meghan are not just taking on the establishment of Monarchy but UK tabloids too in the face of hate - and that deserves our respect & admiration hence I wrote this ‘Harry and Meghan haters: time to face facts, you are being played’

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Harry and Meghan haters: time to face facts, you are being played

For years right-wing tabloids have poured false poison and vitriol over anyone who dares challenge them, now the Sussexes are fighting back

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

2 years

Asylum seekers in the UK receive on average £5.66 a day. It’s higher in France. These people are not coming to the UK for benefits. It is not illegal to cross borders to try and claim asylum.

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

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Matthew Elliott CEO of Vote Leave has been given a peerage by Liz Truss Elliott was a leading figure in the Conservative Friends of Russia only disbanded after Ukraine invasion This pro-Russia group shouldnt have existed in the first place @YorksBylines

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Conservative Friends of Russia group disbands with immediate effect

After 10 years of operation, the Westminster Russia Forum, formerly known as the Conservative Friends of Russia, has suddenly disbanded

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

2 years

What a brilliant day. 50,000 of us on the streets. Myself & others from @BremainInSpain travelled from to attend the National @MarchForRejoin . Our Chair @Suewilson91 one of many brilliant speakers inc @guyverhofstadt @snb19692 & @TerryReintke #MarchForRejoin

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As a British immigrant in Spain, 5 yrs ago I still felt angry at UK gov for stealing our FoM, & powerless to do anything. So, I became a campaigner/activist & joined @BremainInSpain Sept I’ll be speaking @MarchForRejoin in London If you support #RejoinEU too 👉 #FollowBackFriday

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@implausibleblog Wage suppression is the issue here. Average real term wages are below where they were before the financial crash. The govt is basically subsiding business 2.8 million working families are on Universal Credit, that’s 41% of all Universal Credit claimants

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@lukemcgee For years right-wing tabloids have poured false poison and vitriol over anyone that dares challenge them, now the Sussexes are fighting back Harry and Meghan haters: time to face facts, you are being played

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Harry and Meghan haters: time to face facts, you are being played

For years right-wing tabloids have poured false poison and vitriol over anyone who dares challenge them, now the Sussexes are fighting back

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

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@simonharris_mbd You’re sources are amazing! Ever thought about writing for the Daily Mail? You’d do brilliantly.

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To be GB News or not to be news, that is the question GB News is not impartial. Its purpose is to drive fear, mock, belittle, confuse & above all, keep us divided and inflamed driving a post truth society My take in @BylinesCymru on the Welsh Senedd ban

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To be (GB) News or not to be news, that is the question

The recent banning of the GB News channel from the Senedd’s internal TV systems caused a considerable backlash. But is it even news?

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

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@PeterStefanovi2 Shocking. The third-highest childcare costs in the world, with stagnated, wages, food inflation, and more and more people falling into poverty. It really didn’t have to be like this. 13 lost years where nothing has been achieved, yet everything has been eroded and damaged.

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

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An absolute pleasure to speak alongside so many incredible pro-Europeans today at @MarchForRejoin My colleagues and I @BremainInSpain will keep fighting until every British person has the opportunities of freedom of movement restored #RejoinEU

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@MPIainDS @GaryLineker Maybe you should read this

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We're aware of media reporting and social media commentary suggesting next weekend's remembrance events could be disrupted by protest. As we set out in the update below, we will do everything in our power to ensure this does not happen.

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Tired of the ignorance of Brexit supporters saying ability to move to or work in EU ‘Is just a few forms’ No idea how restrictive visa applications are. Employers can hire people immediately from 31 countries without any wait or paperwork, no clue about min income requirements

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

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It’s an Eton mess of epic proportions #ToryIncompetence

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The likes of KGB News and other Brexiter trolls saying hardly anyone showed up on Saturday for the @MarchForRejoin This is the crowd I and others spoke too. It was incredible! They only attack us because they have no valid arguments left to support their Brexit fantasy.

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@TiceRichard If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it just may be a duck.

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😂😂 What a brilliant response from @GretaThunberg to this asshole who thought he’d use her name in a tweet to brag about his car collection. #SmallDickEnergy

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yes, please do enlighten me. email me at smalldickenergy @getalife .com

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@TiceRichard Dear Mr Tice ...

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10 months

Considering the voracious appetite of some low life news outlets for any detail of Harry & Meghan’s life, they seem to be very quiet on this? Ask yourself why Two neo-Nazis who called for Prince Archie to be "put down" have been found guilty of terrorism

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Neo-Nazis who called for Archie to be 'put down' in podcast guilty of terrorism

Christopher Gibbons and Tyrone Patten-Walsh have been found guilty of terrorism offences following a trial at Kingston Crown Court and will be sentenced on September 26

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"They don't really print stories about Harry, Meghan and their children being attacked by Nazis, they prefer to print stories about how they're the wrong 'uns." @mrjamesob understands why listeners may have missed this story over the weekend...

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@implausibleblog So Gove says Nightingale hospitals were an amazing feat. That feat was a vanity project that wasted over half a billion pounds London's cost £57 million & treated a few hundred patients. Birmingham cost £66.4m and treated no patients That money should have been invested in NHS

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

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It was a huge privilege to meet @thatginamiller on Saturday She is 100% correct - ‘Brexit has broken Britain’ and it’s a tragedy

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8 months

"Brexit was a fantasy, and like all fantasies, we've woken up. People can see the effects in schools, in hospitals, in their supermarkets. This is no longer theoretical. The damage is everywhere. Brexit has broken Britain" #MarchForRejoin @thatginamiller

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Happy Brexit Day 6 years on Still dividing Still making economy worse Still going backwards Still picking on minorities Still blaming EU Still holding Britain back Still lying Still breaking laws Still attacking our freedoms Still attacking democracy Still no Brexit benefits

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Welcome to the sunny uplands of Brexit Britain #EnoughIsEnough #RedWall #CostOfLiving

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

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@mikegalsworthy Haha. However, I don't think Mr Anderson thought about the fact that the people of Orkney voted 64% to remain in the EU so, I don't think he will get a very warm reception.

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@simonharris_mbd Excellent - Best news story of the Day.

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

2 years

The biggest ‘selling point’ of Brexit was ending freedom of movement. Hailed by Patel, Farage & Johnson as a triumphant victory This attitude was illogical. Only British lost the automatic right to work, live, love, retire in 26 countries @YorksBylines

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Extending the 90 in 180-day rule for British in Spain

Both the British and Spanish want to extend the 90 in 180 day rule.

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

8 months

Are you sick of Brexit damage? The National Rejoin March is on! This Saturday, 23rd Sept in London Come hear me, & many others speak on why the UK needs to be part of the European family again #RejoinEU @MarchForRejoin Get all the details here at

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National Rejoin March

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National Rejoin March

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While Starmer talks of tinkering around the edges, 60% of the country and 80% of under 25s want to #RejoinEU So let's get out there on Sat 23rd Sept and do something about it! Be there on the road to Rejoin! #MarchForRejoin

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

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Excellent article from @Hardeep_Matharu ‘Using its high-ranking politicians of colour as a shield against legitimate scrutiny of its record on racism & how seriously it takes the issue, has become a strategy of choice for the Conservatives’ @BylineTimes

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‘Rishi Sunak is “Living Proof” a Prime Minister of Colour is No Evidence of a Britain Beyond Racism’

By refusing to condemn Lee Anderson’s comments about Sadiq Khan as Islamophobic, the Prime Minister exposed the cynical fallacy at the heart of ‘the most diverse Cabinet in history’

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

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Poland’s return to democracy is a huge relief - the tide is turning against the divisive populist far-right - The Tories will be next A rocky road lies ahead but the decisive Polish electoral turnout has dealt a blow to far-right in Europe @YorksBylines

Poland’s return to democracy

A rocky road lies ahead but the decisive Polish electoral turnout has dealt a blow to the far right in Europe

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@implausibleblog Without disinformation Badenoch wouldn’t be in a job because the Tories wouldn’t be, and their precious Brexit would never have happened.

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I’m a Welsh migrant living in Spain & campaigning to rejoin EU And it was an honour to speak at the @MarchForRejoin II last month in London We are not going away until every British person has the same opportunities & freedoms as our EU neighbours restored to them by rejoining

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@burtonlisa Lisa Burton is a campaigner with @BremainInSpain , a Welsh immigrant living in Spain. Hear why Lisa thinks we should fight to Rejoin the EU! #RejoinEU #RejoinMarch #speeches

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UK demonstrates world-beating indifference to Ukrainian refugees While the EU leads the way Ursula von der Leyen “Protecting people fleeing Putin’s bombs is not only an act of compassion but our moral duty as Europeans” @Suewilson91 @YorksBylines

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

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@Parody_PM A civilised society that tries to teach its population that murder is wrong by murdering … is not a civilised society at all.

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As Vice-Chair of @BremaininSpain & their representative on the National Council of European Movement UK I am supporting @MikeGalsworthy in the upcoming elections to be the new Chair of European Movement UK .. 1/2

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I would thoroughly recommend watching and supporting @BylineTV - Honest and factual. Saying what others don’t Their Friday night show is great with @PeterJukes & @Hardeep_Matharu Tonight at 8pm they talk sewage, and more with @Feargal_Sharkey

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This week Byline TV has been investigating the scale of the UK's sewage crisis ahead of COP26 and it's worse than we thought. Join @PeterJukes , @Hardeep_Matharu , @Feargal_Sharkey , @_OliviaBlake & @tom_burke_47 live tonight at 8PM

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@PatsyeStevenson My daughter has been spiked twice. Once at 18 and once at 31 - luckily, friends realised something was wrong on both occasions and intervened, but she was exceptionally ill for days. It's an epidemic, and it needs to be taken seriously.

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Love the work @StopFundingHate do Standing up against the vile vitriol of GB News This clip on just some of the stuff they say re Meghan Markle Yet, they don’t understand why advertisers pull their advertising Would you like your brand or business to be associated with this?

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GB News would like you to know (again) that they strongly condemn personal, ad hominem attacks...

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@mrjamesob Oh dear … another day, another Conservative sleaze revealed. Fantastic stuff again from @ByDonkeys

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Femi, on why should you show up for the National Rejoin March on September 23rd in London He and I, along with many others still being announced will be speaking on stage We are Rejoiners and we are the majority so let’s make it huge! @MarchForRejoin

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Why should YOU show up to the #NationalRejoinMarch on 23 September? ⬇️ ⬇️ Because MILLIONS of people simply can't afford to keep paying for Brexit. So we can't afford NOT to make people talk about it. @MarchForRejoin

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@simonharris_mbd Yep, just like the way we Brits have called a vacuum cleaner a hoover since the 60’s, no matter the make.

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It’s only a matter of time #RejoinEU @euromove

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I was proud to represent ⁦ @BremainInSpain ⁩ & speak ⁦ @MarchForRejoin ⁩ My colleagues & I are not going away until British people once again have the right to work, study, love, marry & retire across this incredible continent ..as we did!

Bremain in Spain in London

The second National Rejoin March heralds a turn of the tide that will bring the UK closer and closer to the heart of Europe

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If you want to be angry about something be angry about this 75% of spending cuts the govt announced in Nov would not have been required if Brexit hadn’t removed £40 billion a year in govt tax revenue The Brexit con men knew everyone but conned people into voting for it anyway

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. @BylineTV now 1 year old Outstanding investigative reporting with intelligent analysis you don't find elsewhere Not funded by international agents whose ulterior motive is to damage our society, just us, the people The kind of independent media we need. Well worth supporting

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Byline TV

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For the last year, we've travelled thousands of miles across the UK to bring you the stories the media have ignored. And now, we have a plan. 🚨 To build our OWN platform and to be truly independent forever 🔥 Help us make it happen 👉 Thank you ❤️

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@RussInCheshire This is Ultra Conservatism mixed with the far right ‘replacement theory’. It’s been creeping into their language for a while now. Basically, they want us (white British) women to breed more. It’s white supremacy.

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Femi’s right. Britain is no longer a democracy People agreeing with their govt breaking the law in the name of their diversion tactics & culture war is bad enough, but to support changing undeniable facts, by just making a law to say it isn’t true? Orwell’s 1984 right here!

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I'm too busy working on the last PM's misconduct, to deal with the current one going full fascist dictator on Rwanda, with this "I'm one of the good ones" xenophobic crap... But for now I'll say this: Rishi Sunak is just a shit person. The SEPARATION of powers is the most…

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@DPJHodges Supertanskii makes some very reasonable points here. It does stink and looks like the police buckled to pressure; there is also rife hypocrisy in the treatment of Rayner to Conservatives who do wrong. People will watch & make up their own minds.

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@implausibleblog She's right. There is vast evidence of non-impartiality In multiple Ofcom investigations & findings on @GBNEWS yet we never hear a Tory MP do anything but praise GB News. They go out of their way to do so, appear and host their show in droves. It toes the Tory line so all fine

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@mikegalsworthy Schrödinger's inflation - while they say they have no control over inflation they take responsibility for it falling

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Did anyone, really understand what Brexit meant? There was no plan, even amongst leave voters as there were mulitple outcomes preferred by multiple factions. The consent from the public cannot be described as ‘informed’ and look at the division that has caused @Jon_Danzig

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@terrychristian It’s got to be all that extra ‘freedom’ right? Freedom to trash your country’s economy, the freedom to break intl law, freedom to carry on polluting rivers… the list is long

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Delighted to announce my election to the National Council of European Movement UK, as branch representative of ⁦⁦ @BremainInSpain Very excited about the work ahead. @euromove ⁩ is the organisation that will bring UK back into the European family🇪🇺

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Please welcome our new Branches Reps

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EU’s youth mobility proposal & reaction The proposal wasn’t perfect but it proves EU puts citizens first - we are better represented by our colleagues in Brussels than Westminster. And, we’re not even EU citizens anymore @Suewilson91 @YorksBylines

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The EU's youth mobility proposal

Our leaders may have been too hasty in rejecting the EU’s proposed youth mobility scheme so soon – it offered mobility, not freedom of movement

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We have them rattled! Article in relation to @MarchForRejoin Sept 10, London. ‘Want our star back' Truss put on alert as Rejoiner plot 'building at pace' 👏 Speakers inc @snb19692 (Mr Brexit) @Femi_Sorry , @mikegalsworthy @Suewilson91 @SarahLudford

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Truss put on alert as Rejoiner plot 'building at pace'

LIZ TRUSS is on high alert as the plot to rejoin the European Union is "building at pace".

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Bring it on! Election 2024: Conservatives face backlash from British citizens living overseas If Tories seriously believed restoring our overseas voting rights would work in their electoral favour, they were wrong. We are angry @YorksBylines @Suewilson91

Election 2024: Conservatives face backlash from British citizens living overseas

Is the Conservative Party wise to hire a coordinator to drum up support from British citizens living overseas?

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@MrHarryCole Doing his job then. Its long standing official policy of UK to oppose the death penalty. Even in Commonwealth Starmer won human rights lawyer of the year 2001 for his pro bono work on Caribbean death-row cases, & his contribution to Human Rights Act training but hey, rage away.

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God forbid a barrister acting for free to stop a human being being executed by the state - the death penalty is barbaric and the UK has bound itself by Treaty never to impose it. @Keir_Starmer acted honourably; something unfamiliar to @MrHarryCole .

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‘The ECHR is British in origin. It is our heritage and our standards. If you cannot operate by our British values, you should not be in our Parliament’ 👏 @mikegalsworthy takes on faux patriot, @Jacob_Rees_Mogg

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@Jacob_Rees_Mogg This is just pure rubbish on what ECHR is about - and it is bizarre that you would not know it. The whole master-slave framing you are painting is ridiculous and deliberately misleading. These are rights first proposed by Winston Churchill and the European Movement - later…

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@DaleVince Ah jeez - there's not much that makes me literally laugh out loud, but this from Therese Coffey is just ... 🤣😂

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Loads signing up just now to be part of European Movement UK @euromove EM has a clear mission to mend our relationship with the EU and to eventual full membership 🇪🇺🇬🇧 Join us to be part of this exciting, cross party, pro-EU community 👇 @mikegalsworthy

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European Movement

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Martin McKee 🇺🇦

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Great to get my ⁦ @euromove ⁩ membership - one of many to join now that ⁦ @mikegalsworthy ⁩ is chair

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@SimonClarkeMP He didn’t just say that phrase in isolation though did he - here’s the full comment for context He said: "We will not rest until we have justice. Until all people, Israelis and Palestinians, between the river and the sea, can live in peaceful liberty."

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Andy McDonald: Labour suspends MP after speech at pro-Palestinian rally

The party says comments made by Andy McDonald at the weekend were "deeply offensive".

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@mikegalsworthy ‘His nomination is to take account of his role as one of the leading pro-Brexit business voices in the 2016 referendum on leaving the EU’ So, for being completely wrong that UK businesses would be better outside the EU Like this @euromove survey shows

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Brexit and Business: In Their Own Words

Brexit isn’t working for UK businesses. The European Movement’s comprehensive new survey of UK businesses exposes how difficult UK-EU trade has become for British businesses, causing huge damage...

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

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If you haven’t watched this yet, or are not following @BylineTV do so Their investigative journalism is fantastic The ‘Friday Night Live’ programme this week waa particularly outstanding with @peterjukes @Hardeep_Matharu - in depth reports on Met corruption & Brexit port chaos

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Mike Galsworthy

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More extraordinary investigative journalism by @BylineTV On how @BBCNews are putting out false narratives for Govt - and authorities are turning cameras upwards to avoid videos of Dover lorry queues. Staff afraid to talk because jobs on line. #Brexit

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@mikegalsworthy This is devastating news for the South Wales community, which is already one of Northern Europe's poorest and left behind areas. They also benefited greatly from EU funding and due to its loss are looking at a funding shortfall of over £1.1bn.

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EU funding in Wales – a legacy not to be forgotten - WCVA

As EU funded projects reach their ends and wind down, we’ve commissioned a series of videos to highlight the particular ways EU funding has helped some of the hardest to reach communities and people...

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

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@RhonddaBryant Because she says the things he would get international condemnation for when meeting world leaders - Braverman is a buffer & the dog whistler, but Sunak is as bad as Braverman; he's a coward who has left his dignity on the floor. He's every bit a bigot as she is.

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

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Huge congratulations to @mikegalsworthy on becoming the new chair of European Movement UK @euromove I look forward to working with him as we move forward to build a mass movement that will take us back to the heart of Europe Join us on the journey. Sign up in Mike’s comments

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Yes - I am the new Chair of European Movement UK ( @euromove )! Thanks to everyone for your support. More details & thanks in a bit, but for now... just tell everyone and get EVERYONE to join @euromove . ❤️

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I grew up on a council estate, as did many in my ex coal-mining, Welsh community’, & other post UK industrial areas These areas fuelled the incredible wealth of industrial Britain, only to be cast aside & ignored once they were no longer needed It’s poverty that destroys lives

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Another superb piece of work from @YorksBylines The Compendium of Cabinet Codebreakers, updated. Amongst others it includes ▪Kemi Badenoch ▪James Cleverley ▪Michael Gove ▪Jeremy Hunt ▪Robert Jenrick ▪Johnny Mercer ▪Dominic Raab ▪Rishi Sunak ▪Ben Wallace

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Yorkshire Bylines

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With the news that Gove has potentially broken the ministerial code for a third time today, it's time to update the Compendium of Cabinet Codebreakers.

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@Femi_Sorry I wrote this in 2020 after the release of the report stating most 'grooming gangs' are white. I compare the public & media reaction to 'grooming gangs' compared to other huge child sex abuse cases exampling churches and the football coaching abuse scandal

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The fear of immigrant crime: confronting our own bias and media representation

Lisa Burton writes on the need to confront our worst instincts in tackling racism, particularly in regards to immigration and crime.

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2/2 Mike has been an incredible supporter of pro-EU grass roots groups, incl Bremain. I believe he will bring new energy, has the capability, vision & plan to build & rejuvenate the movement from ground up If you are a member please vote #Mike4Chair Visit

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Dr Mike Galsworthy – candidate for the European Movement Chair

I'm standing for the position because I believe I have the skills & experience needed to take our great movement forward.

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

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Fantastic news At European Movement UK we have just announced appointment of our new Vice President Welcome, Dominic Grieve KC, former govt attorney general ⁦ @euromove ⁩ is growing fast- Why not join us on the road to rejoin

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Dominic Grieve new vice president of the European Movement

The former attorney general has vowed to rebuild ties with the EU

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This will be good .. and as it is @BylineTimes you know that its going to be well sourced @danevanswrites and @TomLatchem reveal the real story why Prince Harry and Meghan really left the Royal Family Also, Byline Times launches from digital to physical in shops tomorrow

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Byline Times

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🔴 WORLD EXCLUSIVE 🔴 Exploding 'Megxit': How Dan Wootton and a Cash-for-Leaks Scandal Split the Monarchy @danevanswrites and @TomLatchem reveal the real story why Prince Harry and Meghan really left the Royal Family

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@implausibleblog Conservative Foundation website states “Conservative Party has always stood for personal liberty, democracy, and the rule of law” What a joke! My take on it & 'pop cons' here - Liz Truss & her Popular Conservatives: another populist con @BylinesCymru

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Popular Conservatives are just another populist con

The launch of the splinter group the Popular Conservatives last week was met with derision. But their mission is both tired and dangerous

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@implausibleblog Full fact have already done their stuff on this, yet Sunak and others are still spouting it unchallenged. It's not true They conveniently left out 4.4 million cases of fraud from the 9 million total offences in 2022

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Conservative claim that ‘overall crime’ has fallen 50% since 2010 excludes fraud - Full Fact

The PM and the policing minister have both made the claim in recent weeks, based on crime survey figures which don’t count fraud or computer misuse.

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

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Hey @mrjamesob - Here’s an explanation why Prince Andrew gets off scott free while people hate on Harry and Meghan. Harry and Meghan haters: time to face facts, you are being played! @LBC

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Harry and Meghan haters: time to face facts, you are being played

For years right-wing tabloids have poured false poison and vitriol over anyone who dares challenge them, now the Sussexes are fighting back

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

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@SimonClarkeMP @Keir_Starmer Again - he didn’t say the phrase in isolation - here’s the full comment for context He said: "We will not rest until we have justice. Until all people, Israelis and Palestinians, between the river and the sea, can live in peaceful liberty."

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Andy McDonald: Labour suspends MP after speech at pro-Palestinian rally

The party says comments made by Andy McDonald at the weekend were "deeply offensive".

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

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Happy 75th birthday @euromove Founded in aftermath of 2nd World War by wartime leaders incl Winston Churchill motivated to secure peace in Europe It helped form the Council of Europe & 1st chapter of the ECHR EM Chair @mikegalsworthy speaks to our President Michael Heseltine

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European Movement UK

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Celebrating 75 years of European Movement UK: Upholding European values, advocating shared interests, and fostering cross-border cooperation since 1949. Let's continue to strive for a united and prosperous Europe.

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@jemmaforte @CaolanRob . @johnsweeneyroar reports the same thing direct from Kyiv He also talks of Brexit being a Kremlin coup - well worth a listen

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War Diary Day 365 Lots of tomatoes in Kyiv Brexit was a rare Russian victory

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@implausibleblog It’s horrendous and very upsetting to watch. It can’t go on like this. Only by a ceasefire and dialogue will this end, and that needs to happen now.

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Working from home is now part of the UK govts culture war The push back to work ignores all evidence of the benefits Research shows it’s better for us, better for the planet & would greatly benefit the Govts ‘levelling up’ agenda so, why? @YorksBylines

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Working from home culture war

Working from home has become part of the culture war, despite clear evidence of its benefits to employees, businesses and the economy

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

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'The BBC Presenter Scandal: The Sun is vile. It is dishonest. It is destructive. Every single day it disgraces name of journalism, erodes quality of life in the UK, yet significant numbers across theUK news media, inc aBBC, follow its agenda like zombies

'The BBC Presenter Scandal: Every Editor and Reporter who Helped Promote the Sun’s Story Should...

How did they allow a threadbare tale from a totally discredited news source to swamp the airwaves and the news pages, asks Brian Cathcart

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

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This is what the likes of Suella Braverman, Lee Anderson, Richard Tice, Nigel Farage & the other far right grifters in politics hate The vast majority of British people are absolutely fine with multiculturalism. It’s a loud, ignorant minority that are not

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Brendan Cox

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The UK now has a black 1st Minister of Wales, a British-Asian 1st Minister of Scotland, a British-Asian PM & a Catholic 1st Minister of Northern Ireland. This would have been unthinkable 20years ago. The amazing thing is how unremarkable it feels for the vast majority of Brits

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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

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Come and join European Movement UK and join us on the road to rejoin EU With Winston Churchill being our founding member, @euromove is the organisation with a clear goal and strategy to get the UK back to the heart of Europe … just as Churchill would want us to be 👇🇪🇺🇬🇧

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Mike Galsworthy

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Right - European Movement membership is now at its highest level ever… …and we’re looking to put on another 1,000 members this month. Be one of them!! 🙏🏻

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@terrychristian Just when you think they can stoop no lower, they do. Can you imagine what they would do if they got away with removing the UK from the ECHR? Also, I can't see this going down well with the majority. All a bit Big Brother.

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The DUP wanted Brexit But, Northern Ireland voted to remain in EU DUP supported Theresa May, giving her the narrow Brexit majority she needed They knew a hard Brexit was dangerous for NI Now they want a hard border because Brexit has backfired & will lead to Irish unification

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@adilray 👏 Well said! Happy Eid

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@sophielouisecc Not everyone believes what Suella Braverman is saying & to say so is utterly ridiculous. If you want to argue a point of truth, then how about this? The majority of British people now believe Brexit was a mistake and would vote to rejoin.

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@Peston Hancock should never have been more than a 2nd hand car salesman. UK had the worst gov in history when the pandemic hit. Only skill set required was to be a Johnson sycophant & a member of the Brexit cult. They were so out of their depth. Inept, chaotic, incompetent & arrogant

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@jemmaforte @SuellaBraverman I see she had to shoehorn ‘people from abroad’ in there. She really is a despicable, dog whistling bigot!

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@AlexTaylorNews This is my favourite not ‘news’ story of the day Basically - emigrating to another country is hard but not as hard as learning the language of the country you emigrate to … erm no shit Sherlock

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The people of Britain now realise Brexit was sold as a way of keeping people out. As immigration figures show that was a lie Its only us who have lost our right to freedom of movement & the incredible opportunities to work, travel, love, marry & retire freely across 30 countries

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A C Grayling #FBPE #Reform #Rejoin #FBPR

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‘Mutual free movement’ for UK and EU citizens supported by 84% of Brits, in stunning new poll

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