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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 10h

Undermining the EU and at the same time expecting preferential treatment.

The sense of entitlement is rather strong with some Brits 🤷🏻‍♂️.

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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 10h

Joining the EU will only be possible if the entire EU acquis is agreed to. That includes the Euro.

No exceptions for new members.

Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 10h

As I said being profoundly anti EU tends piss off EU citizens.

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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 12h

It is the same for all 3rd country citizens.

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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad @crazycatladyabroad.bsky.social · 4d

I'm partial to them myself.

But the difference between Hesselden and all of us who hold him in contempt is that we accept the idea of responsibility and common goals, while he just expects a continent to give him what he wants. He's got no interest in a stronger EU, just a more accomodating one.

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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 12h

It is not bullying and you have been told repeatedly that he blocks everyone so that no pro EU people can counter the lies he spreads.

He is profoundly anti EU and only pro himself.

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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad @crazycatladyabroad.bsky.social · 4d

It doesn't take much effort to find a fair number of people who hold him in contempt. In itself, that should say something.

If he hasn't disgusted you yet, that's your experience and that's fine. But there are reasons so many of us have no patience whatsoever for the selfish prick.

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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 12h

Indeed.

He is anti EU.

Constantly seeking to undermine EU unity.

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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad @crazycatladyabroad.bsky.social · 4d

That's him. No interest in a stronger, more prosperous EU. No interest in fixing the UK so it can contribute. All he ever wants is some of the advantages of being in the EU and he can't understand why the EU won't give it to some third country nobody for no reason.

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Vera1 @vera1rednav.bsky.social · 4d

He wants the UK to have been able to go “cherry picking” British people having all the rights as if it’s still an empire but none of that for other countries. English students still participating the Erasmus project etc etc etc.

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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 12h

One of his less endearing qualities.

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 3d

I still wear it as a badge of honour that the cunt blocked me 2 years ago for defending my wife’s birthright when he was ranting against Irish people and how they didn’t deserve to be treated differently to Brits

All I said was “hating on the Irish won’t help” and it was an instant block 🤣

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 4d

When I first encountered him on twitter in 2021 he was posting threads claiming “nobody voted to lose their FoM”

He would accept no pushback, refusing to agree it was an automatic consequence of leaving

He then moved onto his claim that “nobody voted for Brexit” again refusing to agree that people

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Debbie Eade @debbieeade.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, I was wondering 😉
It's easy to hide identity, but difficult to hide speech patterns, tone and language 😏

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Haven Tenerife @janetanscombe.bsky.social · 3d

you know that the original A uses umpteen sock accounts ...

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Debbie Eade @debbieeade.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, you did, Andrew, and you blocked me when I posted the Spanish government information in response to you on Twitter. So I'm glad you took the information on board in the end 👍

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Debbie Eade @debbieeade.bsky.social · 4d

No idea. Take a look.

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Debbie Eade @debbieeade.bsky.social · 4d

Look at @savefom.bsky.social on here; scroll down. One 'argument' was: FOM meant Brits could stay in any EU country as long as they liked without registering as resident. This is wrong. But he blocked all those who posted docs to prove it because it destroys his 'part-time residence' rights claim.

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Debbie Eade @debbieeade.bsky.social · 4d

Andrew, with all respect, look at his posts on X, in his own name and that of Save FOM and see for yourself 🤷
Many of us are blocked by him on there so we can't see his posts any more.

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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 12h

He has blocked everyone so you will have to check for yourself.

That is how he gets people to believe his bullshit by blocking everyone that can counter his lies.

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Debbie Eade @debbieeade.bsky.social · 4d

I can't show his posts because they were on X & he + his Save FOM account blocked many of us. In my case, for proving vía Spanish gov info that EU citizens in Spain had to register as resident after 90 days 🙄 But do check out his demands for rights for those of (non-existent) 'part-resident' status

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Debbie Eade @debbieeade.bsky.social · 4d

Unfortunately, especially in the guise of his Save FOM account, he has spread a great deal of misinformation - actually, disinformation - about what FOM actually is and 'rights' that he wrongfully insists non-residents had in EU. And blocked those who provided factual evidence to the contrary.

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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 12h

…without the obligations and in a way that would force Spain to leave Schengen.

He is an exceptionalist and this sense of entitlement is why the UK doesn’t belong in the EU (not that it qualifies anyway).

You don’t support something by undermining it.

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 4d

I hope we join the EU again in my lifetime, but people who advocate special deals and exceptional agreements are making the possibility of it happening soon far less likely to happen

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 4d

No he doesn’t

He advocates that MS renege on the Schengen Agreement and Treaty of Amsterdam to allow him to spend as long as he wants in Europe without restriction

He wants the rights enjoyed by citizens of member states without any obligations

He isn’t pro European or pro European unity

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