Ann

American by birth; British/European by choice & ancestry: Swedish, German & Irish. EU fan. Philosophy, legal, legal tech, & civics geek ⛳️🏌️‍♀️RT ≠ endorsement

[Ann @Ann_UK7]

A useful comparison for pre and post #brexit.

[Ann @Ann_UK7]

@TimurNegru Please buy travel insurance. Hopefully you won’t need it, but you don’t want to learn about medical costs in the USA without insurance.

[Ann @Ann_UK7]

@ameliafiorin YT, please.

[Ian Bond @CER_IanBond]

The Routledge Guide to the European Union, 2nd edition, by me, & the late Dick Leonard & Bob Taylor - the ideal stocking filler for the euronerd in your life (as long as they have big stockings), and currently with 20 per cent off, from @routledgebooks https://t.co/Sbp19bdhPd

[Legal Futures @legalfutures]

Lawyer “under new duty” to have functional understanding of AI https://t.co/4DO8wuaYhc

[Ann @Ann_UK7]

@Knesix Why?

[terry christian @terrychristian]

So brexit cost each household in the UK thousands , severely weakened UK economy, caused pound to tank, inflation up, immigration up , good jobs down, NHS battered, energy prices up. Finally the conman behind much of it admits it was all nonsense and could never work. So on whose behalf did Boris Johnson carry it out . Poor Dave down the pub got stitched up like a kipper into voting himself and his family poorer with less rights

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

1/ Our Freedom of Movement was robbed from us by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.

Please retweet if you want it restored.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

The Platypus - a venomous, egg-laying mammal. In 1799, scientists deemed it to be a fake animal of various sewn-together parts while studying a preserved body.

[Cody Lundin @codylundinalss]

Wednesday, July 17th FREE Workshop by Cody Lundin, presented by the Yavapai College Film and Media Arts Program! Building 19, The Community Room at Yavapai College.
11am - 12:30pm: The Making of The Survival Show with Cody Lundin, Season One!
Hope to see you there! Cody

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

Today is the 8th anniversary of the Brexit vote.

Eight years on from that date, an overwhelming majority think that Brexit has been detrimental for the UK.

Whether NHS, trade, travel, immigration, rights, water standards, business - Brexit has made them all worse.

All that is left is the intangible notion of “sovereignty” dangling in the air. But what is this sovereignty and how do we use it to make any practical gain?

If sovereignty is the power over our own affairs - we have clearly lost /mis-invested it through Brexit. Our businesses have lost their power to trade freely across Europe, our citizens lost the power to travel and work freely- and our government and public have lost their representation in the Council & Parliament where the shared affairs of our continent are discussed.

So by pulling all our sovereignty out of those investments and back into our English executive, what have we gained? Answer: The power to do things differently from the European consensus on matters that we used to agree we should decide multi-laterally.

Great, so then we come back to the 8-year-old question of “what do we want to do differently on matters where we used to agree?” — and over 8 years, we’ve had no pragmatic answer to that question.

Trade? We just copied the EU’s deals, apart from Australia where we signed a loss-making deal. Regulations? Our businesses don’t want to diverge (look at failure of UKCA and Labour saying they’d scrap UK-REACH for the same reason). Control of immigration? It’s gone up - and we don’t even get UK citizen travel rights in return.

On all fronts, the sovereignty we pulled out of our EU investment and put in executive hands has cost us big losses and gained us absolutely nothing. At the end of the day, many proponents of Brexit pushed the idea because it appealed to them aesthetically - an excited hope that by casting off a set of responsibilities they could pursue selfish interest and profit mightily. But, the gold they presumed was there just wasn’t. Only a mess.

And that is the summary of Brexit — a modern version of the fable of the goose that laid the golden egg.

Only in our case… this isn’t the end of the road. We can go back - wiser than before— and we will.

[Royal News Network @RNN_RoyalNews]

Catherine is back!! The Princess of Wales is looking fabulous at Trooping the Colour!!

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

Yes, @PrivateEyeNews. 👏👏👏

#Brexit

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

Please retweet if you will never forgive the lying politicians who robbed us of our EU Freedom of Movement.
#RejoinEU

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Brexit reality

[Chris Shaw @The_ChrisShaw]

Tony Blair's 2019 tirade against Brexit.

Worth listening to. He's absolutely spot on.
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[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

Urgent: You need to GET YOUR FREE VOTER ID by 5pm on April 24th!

Once you’ve got ID go to https://t.co/qSKdRpvFLG, put in your postcode and find out your tactical vote to make them cry on May 2nd.

The Tories are rigging elections. Don’t miss your chance to punt them off a pier!

[Ann @Ann_UK7]

Agreed. No ageism. #FOM #RejoinEU

[A C Grayling #FBPE #Reform #Rejoin #FBPR @acgrayling]

I not only want FoM for young people I want it for all of us.

[Ryder Cup USA @RyderCupUSA]

What an epic @RyderCup moment from @TigerWoods!

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