Is this correct?

The queue and the pool bar is the main time Britons come across Europeans. So will falling behind shift the dial?

That said @youbrokeitmate has been damaged by Brexit. I am sure he would see the problem as at the border for traders and those selling services?

When inside Europe, Brexiters were calling for an end FOM but to keep the the other freedoms.

Now, regretful, they're asking for a restoration of FOM without the other freedoms.
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They're a *package*, people.

Andrew Hesselden 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇸🇨🇭🇩🇪🇫🇷🇮🇹🇵🇹 Martin Smith Niall Ó Conghaile 🇪🇺 Peter Packham 🇪🇺 Based on my own personal engagement with #Leave voters, I can tell you that plenty of them DID want to take rights away from 'foreigners'.

I still remember how shocked I was about this outpouring of sheer spite and hatred.

I spent a chunk of my Civil Service career working in the EU. I saw real sadness that the UK did not want to be part of Europe. I remember so many conversations with people who wanted to welcome what the UK could bring - if only our politicians let us.

I do find this displacement worrying.

The UK electorate knew when it made Theresa May and then Boris Johnson PM that is was ending FOM.

I just don't see what the value is in blaming others when only the electoate can fix their mistake?

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The endpoint is obvious, once unionists are allowed their performative tantrums- there will eventually be checks on people GB to NI, and probably the other direction

Starmer is probably sincere at the moment in ruling out membership of the Customs Union or the Single Market. But his acceptance of Elphicke’s defection shows he is an opportunist. Opportunism may well point him back towards the EU in two or three years time.

Yes, applying for Europe and the A49 process is hard. Just as it was for Coratia, Bulgaria, Czechia, Latvia, Spain and Greece.

Why would there be an exception for the UK?

If people don't like it, don't apply.

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Niall Ó Conghaile 🇪🇺 Londoner in Kernow 🇬🇧☘️🇪🇺 Julie 🏳️‍🌈 Montoya 🕷️ 💙 it has to be the electorate - that's democracy! Whether it will be by a referendum or whether by backing a party with a manifesto pledge is yet to be seen. I would say, a vote for Lab or Con at the next election is a vote to stay out of EU orbit for forseeable future!

Andrew Hesselden 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇸🇨🇭🇩🇪🇫🇷🇮🇹🇵🇹 Martin Smith Niall Ó Conghaile 🇪🇺 Peter Packham 🇪🇺 It really is a voter's role to identify liars and cheats in politics, and not vote for them repeatedly. Media failed too. And democratic opposition. And the brexiters themselves. Plenty of blame to go around. Remember their 'you lost' glee? That was not just about being misled.

The starting point in that is to change behaviour by saying, 'We, the electorate, made a mistake in electing Europhobes. Let's not do that again'.

As bleak as things look, this is fixable.

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Niall Ó Conghaile 🇪🇺 Julie 🏳️‍🌈 Montoya 🕷️ 💙 The British electorate needs someone smart and charismatic to light the way forward to Europe again.

With a systematic and sustained info campaign to counter the disinfo from the populist press and malign actors overseas.

Londoner in Kernow 🇬🇧☘️🇪🇺 Julie 🏳️‍🌈 Montoya 🕷️ 💙 Who should fix it, Rob, if not the British electorate?

Niall Ó Conghaile 🇪🇺 Jaqui The public has to fix it.

It's not helped by a load of political tribalism and lying politicians but ultimately it is the public that has to fix their own mess.

Niall Ó Conghaile 🇪🇺 No one will fix it for them, they are on their own. That´s the sad part. That´s the good part: in on their own hands.

Ray ADams Brexit Refugee Ian Seward Niall Ó Conghaile 🇪🇺 European Movement UK Brexit Buster REJOIN AND REFORM #RejoinCampaign Brendan Donnelly 🇪🇺 The EU market is 6.7x the population and 5x the GDP of the 🇬🇧 UK market. The EU presents vast opportunities for businesses looking to expand. Brexit massively damaged the UK's access to this market causing economic chaos in the UK. #EUmarket

Really interesting discussion over the weekend about the UK electorate's responsibility for the loss of European citizenship rights via Brexit.

If we accept that the electorate is not responsible for Brexit* then can from who do you expect restoration of your citizenship?

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Niall Ó Conghaile 🇪🇺 Wasn´t that at the core of Brexit ideology? The idea that all things going wrong in the country were responsability of others/the foreigners? Insn´t is always 'someone elses´s' fault?