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→ What we’ve lost – 2-minute video 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗔𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗦𝗦 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗡𝗧 Free movement of people has worked for Britain and for Europe. Free movement means that citizens of our continent can easily move between neighbouring countries, filling job vacancies as needed in different EU member states. When in the EU, free movement allowed Britons to live, work, study or retire anywhere in the EU, as well as Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. Millions of Britons made use of these freedoms over the decades. British citizens and their families living and working in another EU country had the right to access that country's state healthcare and education. And under EU free movement, British pensioners had the right to move to sunnier climes in Europe, and enjoy their FULL UK state pension. British pensioners also had access to FREE STATE HEALTHCARE in their new EU country, paid for by the NHS. Free movement was never broken, and it didn’t need fixing. ▪ 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀, EU citizens couldn’t just arrive in another EU country and claim benefits – they had to have sufficient funds of their own to travel and to stay. ▪ 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀, EU citizens could be rejected or ejected if they were considered to pose certain risks to the country. ▪ 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀, EU citizens could enjoy the right to stay in another EU country for up to three months only, so long as they didn’t become a burden to the state. ▪ 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀, EU citizens could only legally stay longer in another EU country if they were jobseekers; workers; self-employed; students; self-sufficient; permanent residents (i.e. legally here for more than five years); or family members of one of the above. What a brilliant system, that served our country well – either for citizens coming here, or our citizens going there. Now all ended for the UK, because the British government interpreted the referendum Brexit vote as meaning the end of ‘free movement’. Even though, just as for non-EU countries Norway and Switzerland, we could have kept free movement without having to be an EU member. And even though voters were never specifically asked if we wanted to end free movement with our continent. The government just assumed we did. But consistently, polls show that Britain would prefer to retain our freedom of movement with our continent. [Source: https://lnkd.in/dvQhwEC] ▪ If you support this post and you're on Twitter, retweet: https://lnkd.in/eCbKwVJy ▪ 𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧 on Facebook: https://lnkd.in/erqb4CQx ▪ © Report and video cover by Jon Danzig. Video programme by the European Parliament (produced in 2017 when the UK was still an EU member) #Brexit #EUcitizenship #freemovement #EU #EuropeanUnion #Dover #travel #Europe