@savefom
As first step to #RejoinEU advocating for restoring 4 Freedoms of Movement after Brexit in UK/EU/EEA/Switzerland (people, goods, services, capital), required for Single Market/EU. #SaveFOM. Think Tank. Campaign. #FBPE. http://www.savefom.org
1. Thread 🧵
Freedom of Movement wasn’t just a policy.
It was a simple freedom: the ability to say yes.
• Yes to a job.
• Yes to love.
• Yes to a new life in another country.
When that freedom disappeared, something subtle but important changed.
Here are the objectives of the @180daysinspain.bsky.social campaign.
Our objectives for @savefom.bsky.social are much broader of course.
In Comms we call this the “What’s in it for me”. It’s always at the heart of winning support.
This is exactly why basing a campaign to rejoin the EU around the idea of rejoining the EU just doesn’t work.
The reasons we joined the EU in the first place have not gone away. They just need rediscovering because people have forgotten why it happened.
I post communication frameworks that help political parties and campaign groups rejoin the EU. Follow me for more.
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…
One mention of the 90-in-180-day problem (at 16:55). But lots of talk about the loss of Freedom of Movement.
Thanks
@stephengethins.bsky.social
@helenmaguiremp.bsky.social
Well done for organising such a great show of support.
We saw there were plenty of mentions of lost Freedom of Movement, a reference to the 90-in-180-day problem and several mentions of how an Irish passport solves mobility for Brits. …Bad luck though still for those without Irish/EU ancestry.
Watch today’s parliamentary debate on the Impact of the 2016 Referendum on the UK
It starts 2h in at 1630.
#RejoinEU #SaveFOM #Erasmus+
@stephengethins.bsky.social
@europeanmovement.co.uk
@savefom.bsky.social
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We’ve also asked supporters of our partner campaigns to write to their MPs this weekend and to tell them about how losing Freedom of Movement has affected them.
Delighted you are holding this debate.
@180daysinspain.bsky.social
@francevisafree.bsky.social
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And all for what exactly…?
The trolls complaining about our work promoting Freedom of Movement probably don’t realise there is a **very real risk** UK gov will succeed in getting a bespoke kind of EU membership or single market membership that explicitly excludes Freedom of Movement of People.
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Spot on. @savefom.bsky.social
Why re-litigate the referendum?
Simple.
Because a number of fellow Europeans (inc oconghaile and crew) are obsessed by the idea that British people voted to harm and hurt other Europeans.
It’s not true.
And that idea is damaging to hopes of rejoining If it makes people think we are enemies.
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It’s is tragic.
Ever-increasing barriers on travel between UK and other European countries is bad for everyone.
We’re supposed to be going forward not backwards.
This is really sad 😢
Man arriving from UK in Lanzarote sadly dies while facing an extended wait at passport control.
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Hey…. 👀 👇
Freedom of Movement of people, goods, service and capital are certainly indivisible in the context of the single market.
But outside of that context, Freedom of Movement of people could certainly stand alone as a first step.
In fact, it does in Switzerland.
And between Ireland and UK too.
The problem of course is that it’s Freedom of Movement **of people** that British politicians are so scared of.
Why are they scared?
Because they think YOU don’t want it and won’t accept it.
It’s upside down thinking to think that Freedom of Movement of people comes **after** rejoining the EU.
It’s upside down because rejoining the EU isn’t even possible until UK is willing to accept Freedom of Movement of people.
Obviously, what the UK should do is — irrespective of any other economic or institutional arrangement — agree with the EU to reintroduce FoM. This could be done very quickly and would have have substantial immediate benefits.
This 100%
Delighted people are catching on about Freedom of Movement being the way to unlock the Brexit impasse.
People are waiting until we (eventually?!) rejoin the EU to get their Freedom of Movement back in Europe.
But that’s topsy turvy thinking.
Because we can’t rejoin the EU until we are prepared to rejoin the Single Market.
And that’s not possible until UK gov agrees to restore FOM.
And that’s just one of the reasons Freedom of Movement was a good idea.
Nope…
