Brexit the Elephant

Brexit the Elephant is very excited to be travelling to Brussels, capital of 🍺 Beer, Chips 🍟 and Chocolate 🍫 and of course one of the homes of the European Parliament 🇪🇺.

“I wonder if anyone will notice me in Brussels” he sighed.

…still feeling invisible in Westminster.

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Excellent work @libdems.org.uk

So ele-excited to see politicians really beginning to talk more about the damage Brexit has caused. 👏

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Excellent work @libdems.org.uk

So ele-excited to see politicians really beginning to talk more about the damage Brexit has caused. 👏

#BrexitTheElephant.

Woo hoo! I’ve got 3,000 followers!
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Yesterday #BrexitTheElephant was at the impressive Escuela de Arquitectura in Granada with @savefom.bsky.social for Day 1 of @fomatplay.bsky.social congress.

“I noticed the B_____ word on the agenda quite a lot…”, he mused, quietly pleased 🇬🇧 UK gov is starting to realise mobility needs fixing.

“I’ll never understand why British politicians took everyone’s Freedom of Movement away. Did they realise what they were doing?”. 😢 🐘

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Brexit the Elephant is in Granada 🇪🇸 this week with @savefom.bsky.social at @fomatplay.bsky.social finding out how losing Freedom of Movement after Brexit has affected people all across Europe.

“¡España me encanta!” he reflected, suddenly realising that he was thinking in Spanish.

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Brexit, the Elephant is in his kayak in the River Thames in London 🇬🇧.

“I’d better not lose the paddle”, he thought.

“Otherwise I’d be like the Government is on Brexit —up the creek without a paddle”

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Will you be there on 18 October for the 4th Annual Rejoin March?

Find out more at marchforrejoin.co.uk

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Brexit the Elephant had to change his mobile phone contract before going away because some of them stopped free EU roaming when Brexit happened.

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☀️ Brexit the Elephant is getting ready for his summer holidays 🏝️ by practising standing in long queues.

“I don’t suppose anyone will realise they’re in this big queue because of me”, he mumbled to himself, quietly.

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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…

If any industry bodies (music, travel, haulage, sailing, consulting, law, CBI etc ) would like to get behind a campaign to make any of this happen then please contact me as I’m bringing a few industries together for talks who are interested. My DMs are open and I can set up a time to talk.

None of these ideas “break Schengen” in any way and nor do they require any country to leave the Schengen zone. The detail of how to make these happen is for civil servants and lawyers to work out once politicians decide they want to do it. No idea is “illegal”. Laws can be changed if necessary.

7. Low requirement, low cost visas. Potentially issued instantly and printed out online for certain kinds of traveller.

6. Automatically issued visas for certain categories of traveller. France has been floating this idea in the Senate and Assemblée Nationale for British property owners, but I’d prefer more inclusive solutions eg for those who rent homes and for younger people who want to work or study seasonally.

5. Changes to the Schengen Visa Waiver (for example making the 90 days “per visit” or making it 365 in 365). This would solve the problem of a British traveller not being allowed into Italy for a weekend after spending 90 days in France.

4. Bilateral agreements on visa waivers like the ones New Zealand, Canada, USA and others have. Most of these seem to be from pre-Schengen times but their existence proves their ongoing compatibility with Schengen. Some say they can’t be done. I disagree because most things can be made to work.

3. Third, a new agreement on FOM of people, rather like Switzerland has. Professor Diego Acosta wrote a paper on this suggesting it as a model for example for UK and Spain to try. Could solve many of the Gibraltar problems.

2. Second, rejoining the single market. Probably easier and it’s still Brexit but it’s Brexit without any of the problems Brexit has caused.

1. First, the big one: rejoining the EU. Solves a lot of problems.

A very warm Ele-welcome from me, Ursula. Welcome to London.

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Very happy to!