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Really, Andrew, is that your position now? The very Brexity "Europe is punishing us for Brexit?" Widespread now across social media and entering the remainosphere. Important for European Movement UK and Bremain in Spain to disown theae comments front their confederate. A 🧵

I don't know about that. It's a great country. But it has gone done a blind alley with Brexit and I don't know how it can get out

It's important to make clear to the UK public who the applicant is. Without that, the support will never be there to go through the accession process.

The default was always and at every stage to leave all European institutions. That's what the public voted for at every stage. The UK never had the option to choose to stay in any institiutions. Thréad 👇 bsky.app/profile/nial...

To be noted at this point, despite the quibbling, despite the utter refusal to contemplate Spain's doing the checks, despite the fig leaves, we've ended up the exact position as Europe offered years before the agreement was signed off on: Gib under European law 5

So, with the best will in the world, Gib residents not being subject to Schengen's 90/180 rule (they don't have FoM) is an absolutely suí generis response for a really tiny number of people. Let's also not forget, the entry checks are performed by Spanish officials. 4

It's a disfunctional system. We should not adopt jt. bsky.app/profile/nial...

Remember when their brain fart solution to the border in Ireland was 'the inevitable irexit'.

In 2016, how often did I read “the UK doesn’t even have a land border with the EU, thanks to the English Channel…”

So? Dan Hannan doesn't control European treaties. He could say whatever he wanted, it doesn't change reality, and it doesn't change that people put their X in the box the meant leaving all European institutions (A50 was widely discussed) Thréad bsky.app/profile/nial...

Incidentally, that's exactly the sort of misinformation that your friend Andrew disseminates and thrives on.

The default was always and at every stage to leave all European institutions. That's what the public voted for at every stage. The UK never had the option to choose to stay in any institiutions. Thréad 👇 bsky.app/profile/nial...

The howling when the EU would not budge. And then Boris had to be schooled* on borders, Good Friday Agreement and EU law.

Why? We are a third country and expect to be treated as such. Why should the EU break it's pillars just for us?

No, I see what he says. His campaign is against Schengen, not the UK go's position. If he believed in fighting exceptionalism, he would.

If that is the lesson to take from the deals over NI and Gibraltar - work within Europe's red lines - good However I fear many, esp. exceptionalists, will misinterpret this. They see tacking on the UK to these deals as the solution. 3

Yes, exactly this. It's the attitude that led to Brexit.

Absolutely 💯 this is what Boris and his ilk couldn't get...it is EU law that is paramount NOT UK law. 27 individual countries are not changing their rules and regs for the UK. The UK has a sweet deal and then LEFT the club. And the sweet deal died.

I’m quite sympathetic to “I used to be able to do a thing that gave me a good life” but not when you think you are too special for the rules to apply because that’s just the British disease and it’s a big part of why Brexit happened so it makes someone part of the problem!

Does he not understand that we are now a third country and the European Union is a rules based union of equal countries. We are no longer part of that... That is all there is here...