draditrapani.bsky.social
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With the most expensive visa in the world? I think you attract only care workers now, talent is going elsewhere
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It seems UK is the only country that doesn’t apply the Article 8 of the ECHR which states that everyone has the right to respect for their private and family life. This includes the right to family reunification.
But UK as usual put its own rules, ie a minimum income and high fees. What a country!
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As for Neil O'Brien and the other Tories wailing about “vile class wars” and it being “unfair”?
Do they not know that this system is happening under legislation brought in by TORIES in 2014?
Ignorant?
Or just love a bit of rage-farming Labour bashing?
7/13
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Who was in power in 2014?
Oh, that’s right - it was the Tories👍🏼
Which is weird because the DM spoke to 3 different Tory MPs (no Labour obvs!) who seemed really rather angry at this “vile class war, “quasi-Marxist class war” and “unfair discrimination”🤷🏼♀️
4/13
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Either way, it's weird to be focusing like this. The UK looks very average for a Western European state for actual immigration.
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It’s just as vowing stage as it is make Brexit work ..without Schengen full integration is not possible. 🙅
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There are also practical logistics to consider, as on that line people might stop in Cologne or anywhere within the EU, will still be subject to border controls? How do you manage the two different set of passengers? What a mess if UK doesn’t join Schengen!
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Only if they join Schengen otherwise will be more Qs and delays for everyone on the journey. I just compare my trip when going Brussels to Paris on the @eurostarnews.bsky.social vs London to Paris-Brussels… you might gather which one is more stressful and time consuming for being a train.
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This is not just an American story. It’s a preview.
And the question for every other democracy is simple:
Do you adapt now, or do nothing and slide into authoritarianism?
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We built 20th-century democracies on the assumption that truth could be verified, public discourse could be deliberated, and those in power could be held accountable.
But the system those assumptions relied on, gatekeepers, shared facts, institutional trust, are in decline, and deservedly so.
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In other words, Reeves and the Treasury have achieved a rare - though not unique - distinction of alienating vast numbers of British voters for next-to-zero fiscal or economic benefit. Bravo Rachel 👀
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to be fair, the BBC have been telling lies about immigration, Europe etc. for many many years. They created a fake reality simply by dedicating so much time to immigration and little to bribes to politicians, zero to all the money successive Govs have given to large corporations etc., but also 1/2
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Yet only 3 out of 44 countries in Europe don't have ID cards. Most of Europe find this debate in UK baffling
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Just I don’t speak Gaelic, only a few words, whereas you speak Italian…do you live in Italy? Or just learned the language while on hols?
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I wonder why they didn’t use the word in the AI ads but then they used at the end let’s crack on, they could have made it more authentic using craic …
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True, sorry, that’s why you can still claim VAT when buying products in EU or CH…it’s just there are barely any checks now, only randomly done when you go through CH.
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I lived in Dublin for almost 4 years!
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Easy explained here, good to note the UK place on it. In good company.
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It depends what you wish to have as result. Do you want just normal dialogue? Nothing to do.
Do you want deepen relationships which include trade and no barriers? Drop your red lines.
Anything the UK wishes hinges on them. Not much to do then.
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CH is not a non-MS as third country, they are EFTA members so there is already an agreement between EFTA-EU and although non inside EEA, it shares with EU all the rights and obligations. It has long history, now it would not work. So either you are in or out. UK is not even close to CH relationship