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Kathy Love @kathylove.bsky.social · 4h

SM membership would in all cases involve a much wider-ranging set of legal obligations than most people realise, which would need time to adopt and implement. So it’s possible but not quick or easy.

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ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 4h

"Matthew Goodwin - UKIP analyst" 🤮

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 5h

Apologies, I've attached the wrong screen-shot, my mistake, sorry. 🙂
I've lost the screen shot from yesterday, but here are more Google responses, saying roughly the same.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 21h

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 14h

There's no culture of coalitions in 🇫🇷 (or in 🇬🇧) - accepting compromises so that everyone gets *some* of what they want. GE 2024 resulted in a hung Parliament, with no overall majority for any one party, which hardly ever (if ever) happened in the past. Which is partly why🇫🇷 is in this mess. 4/4

ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 14h

Please correct me if I'm wrong: there's a dose of PR in elections in Germany, whereby 50% Abgeordneten are elected on a PR system. This means there's hardly ever (if ever) an overall majority in Bundestag and parties have long been used to building coalitions (for years, FDP was the "kingmaker").3/n

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ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 14h

PR was tried by Pdt Mitterrand in GE 1986 (it was part of the manifesto on which he was elected). It resulted in JMLP's far-right FN getting 35 MPs elected, so PM Chirac scrapped it for GE 1988. 2/n

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ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 14h

One way of looking at it is through the lens of voting systems.
France's voting system (to elect MPs to AN) is less brutal than the UK's FPTP;it's a "two-round majority" system,and is a little like STV, except there are two rounds, so voters have more information when voting in the second round. 1/n

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ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 15h

Gallic shrug 🤷‍♂️😂

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17h

"None of them will get it" is targeting Sarah, 36, a finance worker in the City of London who is from Canada
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Sarah, 36, a finance worker in the City of London who is from Canada, is facing an even more uncertain future. She first came to the UK on the British-Canadian youth mobility scheme but it was only when she secured a skilled worker visa in 2022 that her time here started to count towards the five-year qualifying period for ILR.

She now faces a tentative wait until 2027, hoping that the Labour government does not introduce its new rules extending the qualifying period in the meantime. Even then, Sarah faces losing her right to settle in the UK altogether under a Reform government.

It has made her rethink her future in the UK, where she lives in southwest London with her English boyfriend, a Conservative voter who is also “absolutely appalled” at Reform’s policy to scrap permanent settlement.

Sarah says the policy is “wildly disheartening”: firstly because of the much warmer welcome British citizens receive in Canada and the US and secondly because of the “huge contributions” immigrants like her make to the public purse.

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 17h

Every EU citizen entering the Schengen Zone from outside it has to go through passport control

A Spanish citizen flying from Dublin to Madrid has to, just like an Irish citizen, exactly the same “bother”

Non EU citizens have much more stringent checks and passport stamps and in future EES & ETIAS

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ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 15h

Don't worry. Even politicians still don't understand that the EU CU is for EU M/S (and micro-states) only, even almost 10 years after #EURef2016. It's a frequent mistake 🙂

ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 15h

It will (in time) be funded by ETIAS.*You* will be funding EES if you are a Briton traveling to any EU M/S.In the meantime,the "down-payment" for its implementation is taken off the EU Commission's budget.
It's not purely coincidental if implementation of ETIAS & EES happen roughly at the same time🙂

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ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 16h

It would be "unprecedented".
All current Schengen members are EU or EFTA M/Ss,or micro-states embedded within 🇪🇺.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenge...
Imo,it makes little sense to be a Schengen member w/o (reciprocal) Free movement of Pple.
It would def. have been unpalatable when the W/A was negotiated.

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ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 16h

Isn't it (" "a" Customs Union (bespoke, to be negotiated)") exactly what I wrote?

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ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 16h

Ah, but don't you know?
The UK is not "precisely *any* third country given that it is, in fact, in Europe".
The UK is an exceptional third-country 😂

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 21h

Simon Calder's reporting on the travel impact of Brexit has been good, but the strangely-worded final line of this ("under the Brexit deal, Boris Johnson’s government negotiated for UK passport holders to become third-country nationals") suggests that, even now, Brexit isn't really understood.

LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit @catanonim.me · 1d

~ New EU entry-exit warning: ‘Leave extra four hours’ for passing through new system | The Independent ~

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/eu-entry-exit-system-delay-arrival-flight-b2843028.html

New EU entry-exit warning: ‘Leave extra four hours’ for passing through new system | The Independent

A top travel industry figure has warned of bottlenecks at European airport from October 12

www.independent.co.uk

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ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 16h

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ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 8d

"The" Custom Union (as in "The European Union CU") cannot be joined from outside the EU. It's for EU Member States only (plus very few embedded micro-states/locations). Of course, the UK could be in "a" Customs Union (bespoke, to be negotiated) with 🇪🇺 like Turkey.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europea...

European Union Customs Union - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 16h

German carmakers will come to the rescue of all those British second-home-owners in Europe.
Any time now ⌛
😂

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 17h

“grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”

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ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 16h

... and we would take back control of "are boarders", and reduce immigration, and kick all those bl*dy Europeans who had invaded our homeland out of the country.

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 21h

"The need us more than we need them" - R. Tice

As evidenced by the major campaigns of thousands of Europeans with holiday homes in the UK looking for special treatment.

Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 1d

Entirely unsurprising that the Holiday Villa 'Ndrangheta have found politcal allies at last in the shape of Reform UK.

Reform really do hypocrisy very well.

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H/T @goodclimate.bsky.social & @rolandmcs.bsky.social

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ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 17h

As tribute act to his counter-part, former UK Defense Secretary, I suggest renaming the new French PM Corinne Lacornette - just for the sake of variety 😂

Grant Shapps' alter ego Corinne Stockheath (i.a.)

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Journalist: Why didn't Trump get it?

Nobel Peace Prize Committee say they only give the prize to those with courage and integrity

More integrity that every politician sucking up to Trump

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