Aberdeen mad, old French and new Scot, proud grandfather of 7, Aberdeen SNP group leader, Torry/Ferryhill Councillor, former Member of the European Parliament
I won’t comply, I shall not apply to the Home Office settled status and I won’t pay them to be denied the right to remain in my own home, amongst my family and friends of more than 35 years. I know my rights and this is wrong.
There comes a moment when we have to say "this is not us - we will not comply or be complicit". The UK's appalling scheme for EU citizens resident here cannot go unchallenged.
#indyref2
I am an immigrant, I can’t undo my life in the UK, I can’t undo my children and grandchildren, you can’t take away my freedom of movement retrospectively.
I won’t apply to settled status to be denied my right to remain in my own home.
If you tolerate this then... you’ll be next.
Home Secretary Priti Patel is cheered as she repeats the PM's pledge to introduce an "Australian-style" points-based immigration system, promising to "end the free movement of people once and for all"
#CPC19
We are to extend the right to vote to everyone permanently resident in Scotland, regardless of nationality or citizenship.
This is who we are, a modern democracy, the antidote to an inhumane, xenophobic and despicable Tory
#BrexitBritain
.
An aristocrat, Rhodri Colwyn Philipps 4th Viscount St Davids, who wrote an online post offering £5k to anyone who ran over Gina Miller has been sent to 12 weeks in prison.
Here is your elite in inhumane, xenophobic and despicable Tory
#BrexitBritain
I won’t comply, I shall not apply to the Home Office settled status and I won’t pay them to be denied the right to remain in my own home, amongst my family and friends of more than 35 years. I know my rights and this is wrong.
EU citizens and their families will need to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme to continue living in the UK after 31 December 2020.
Find out more:
#Brexit
Every now and then someone thinks it is ok to tell me to go home not understanding that my home is Scotland where I have chosen to live for more than 35 years.
I can’t undo my 3 children, my 4 grandchildren, I can’t undo my life.
As a French citizen living in Scotland and representing Scotland in the European Parliament, I can tell you that this Brexiter was nowhere to be seen yesterday when we voted from 9am to 10pm.
I made the journey from Scotland to Strasbourg, what’s his excuse?
.
@maitlis
to Brexit Party MEP,
Brian Monteith: “You take the salary from a place you despise, that you don’t want to be a part of, that you can’t behave in... You’re a member of the Brexit Party of England, an MEP of a parliament you don’t want to sit in, living in France?”
No thanks, I’ve decided instead to be one of
@theSNP
candidates in the forthcoming
#EuropeanElections2019
I won’t apply to be denied the right to remain in my own home of more than 35 years.
#VoteSNP
I used to drive one of these in another life. Most of my working life has been about bringing the best of the Scottish fresh seafoods we have to the continent.
More than 35 years of work destroyed on January the first with this terrible Tory Brexit trade deal.
#BrexitCarnage
Dozens of shellfish lorries from Scotland’s coastal communities have descended on central London to highlight the export problems they have faced due to Brexit.
We had no voice in the 2016 referendum and have been
#InLimbo
ever since. We were talked about and decided for without a say in our own future.
Please make your voice heard at the
#EUelections2019
for our future in Europe.
Let us know if you had any trouble registering to vote.
I need your help. I woke up this morning to an awful tweet from
@Effiedeans
whoever they are. I attempted to respond to the tweet but
@Effiedeans
have deleted it then blocked me. I would be grateful if you could ask
@Effiedeans
to explain themselves for me.
Merci
#IAmAnImmigrant
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom just spoke at length and answered a question about schools reopening. At no point did he specify that he was talking about schools in England and England only.
He is now the Prime Minister of England and England only.
Ben Elton “I never have to have a passport to get here“
“defining yourself by geography or some spurious pride of birth.”
I never have to have a passport to get to France, see where we are now.
I’m 100% French, 100% Scottish, 100% European
@theSNP
Will I be deported next?
I am a French citizen calling for the UK to give us the opportunity in Scotland to find a better way back in the European Union as an Independent nation.
We were warned about this to happen.
🛑🧵Marcus Decker, a German citizen who dared to peacefully raise his voice for climate justice in the UK now sits in jail waiting to be deported. The UK govt using deportations as a way to stifle the right to protest and exercise freedom of speech. 🙅♂️
This is a direct attack on
@the3million
of us, I challenge Alister Jack to repeat what he said or to apologise. This week has been a succession of xenophobic attacks towards us migrants.
@ScotTories
are introducing xenophobia to their policy of convergence with the rest UK.
👇Shameful Tory comments here totally misrepresenting the effects of migration. As well as enriching our society, figures show on average each EU citizen contributes an additional £34,400 to GDP & £10,400 in Government Revenue per year, & migrants make a net contribution overall!
Katrin Jakobsdottir has teamed up with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and New Zealand's PM Jacinda Ardern to promote a "well-being" agenda. Iceland puts well-being ahead of GDP in budget
Where were you
@RossThomson_MP
beginning of the month when we met in Peterhead? The North East Scotland Fisheries Development Partnership (NESFDP) is a cross party, cross-sectoral group that you choose not to attend. Like Farage Ross doesn't attend meetings to meet our fishermen.
Why not come with me to Peterhead or Fraserburgh and I can watch you look those fishermen in the eye, who have seen their community devastated and their industry become a shadow of its former self, and explain to them that the EU has worked for them too.
You haven’t got a clue, we hold you responsible for this disaster that is Brexit here in Aberdeen, the city that will be the hardest hit by your incompetence Ross Thompson and I blame
@RuthDavidsonMSP
I’ve been deeply concerned by the
#ChequersPlan
but reserved judgement until I could see detail. I’ve just left the Downing Street briefing and I still have concerns. The
#Brexit
plan opening offer appears so diluted that we would be a vassal state. I now await the White Paper.
Don’t let the privileged hide their true privileged names. Call the PM Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, the No campaign chairman, Alistair Maclean Darling Baron Darling of Roulanish and the MSP from Aberdeenshire, Alexander James Amherst Burnett of Leys
"Let me be clear... Labour is not going to let the country rejoin the EU"
Shadow Treasury minister Darren Jones says despite not rejoining the EU, we "must have a better working relationship... in the interest of the UK economy"
#BBCLauraK
We are people, not imported goods. I am proud to be a migrant, proud to be an immigrant to Scotland.
I chose to come and I chose to stay, this is what freedom of movement is all about.
Eastern European workers being flown to
#BrexitBritain
to pick fruits and vegetables, EU immigrants working in the NHS being applauded every Thursday, has the Brexit penny dropped yet?
Rabbie Burns, the world o'er
Ce n’est qu’un au-revoir, mes frères
Ce n’est qu’un au-revoir
Oui, nous nous reverrons, mes frères,
Ce n’est qu’un au-revoir
🏴
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Since the Brexit vote, people think it is ok to tell me to leave my own home of more than 35 years, to leave my children and grandchildren, to leave my job and colleagues, it is not ok.
I've reported this hate crime
@AberdeenCPolice
please do report all incidents, it has to stop. Scotland is not immune we must protect
@the3million
of us across the UK.
J'accuse the media for giving a platform to xenophobia and politicians for blaming migrants
#HostileEnvironment
🏴 The people of Scotland have spoken - it's an SNP landslide.
✅ Highest number of votes
✅ Highest number of constituency seats ever
✅ Highest vote share ever in a Scottish election
👇 Once we rebuild Scotland from COVID, there will be an independence referendum.
I would have not been able to come to Scotland as a young man earning way less than the minimum now imposed and struggling to speak English at the time.
My English might have improved but my current salary at Aberdeen City Council is still not enough.
It is impossible to overstate how devastating this UK gov policy will be for Scotland’s economy. Our demographics mean we need to keep attracting people here - this makes it so much harder. Getting power over migration in
@ScotParl
is now a necessity for our future prosperity.
The Home Office has announced they will spend up to £9m on outreaching EU citizens about settled status, out of the £200m+ they will receive from
@The3Million
EU citizens applying to stay in their own home
Whitelink Seafoods Ltd in Fraserburgh has been handed £673,000 in funding in the latest round of the European and Maritime Fisheries Fund.
Yes, another £673,000 from the EU to our fishing industry.
@brochherald
Finland’s two-year test of universal basic income has concluded that it doesn't seem to disincentivise working, and benefits recipients’ mental and financial wellbeing
This is a despicable lie, the UK has implemented a hostile environment towards migrants with inhumane and xenophobic immigration policies.
Look at Germany, ask
@BritishInEurope
the people you have let down and us
@the3million
how we feel about your lies.
The UK is a welcoming and open country. We have protected the rights of EU citizens in the UK. Now it's EU countries' turn to match our offer and give UK nationals certainty in any
#Brexit
scenario.
#BrexitOpportunities
I'll be honest I fell in love with my wife before falling for Scotland, I was young then. What I don't know is who fell in love first in this romance between Scotland and me, I feel Scotland loves me more than I could have ever expected.
#LoveScotland
❤️
Every week someone shows me the door, it happens to be my own front door of more than 35 years. This is us, what we have become, inhumane, xenophobic and despicable Tory
#BrexitBritain
. I blame you
@RuthDavidsonMSP
Our health service would collapse without EU workers. But the UK Government has decided to charge every EU adult living and working here £65 for a visa to remain.
May be Thompson should have joined us at our North East Scotland Fisheries Development Partnership meeting yesterday when we discussed the impact of Brexit on our fishing industry.
But you never attend those meetings, do you
@RossThomson_MP
? Talks like Farage, tweets like Trump
🗳 Two years ago the people voted to
#TakeBackControl
of our laws, our money, our fishing waters and our borders by voting to leave the EU. We leave as one United Kingdom. A United Kingdom free to rejoin the rest of the world and lead the world as a global free trading nation 🌍
I won’t pay, I won’t apply for the right to remain in my own home of more than 35 years. I’m here by right and
@carolinenokes
is wrong. I blame you
@RuthDavidsonMSP
A huge blow for our two universities, Aberdeen and the region.
Our biggest challenge was already to keep our population up since Brexit, we can’t do it without Independence.
🏴 Scotland’s future is back in the European Union 🇪🇺
From today, the majority of foreign university students cannot bring family members to the UK.
In 2024, we’re already delivering for the British people.
“Never before have the foundations of public support for the union looked so weak,” writes Prof Sir John Curtice of Strathclyde University, describing “the first time in polling history” that backing for Scottish independence has been ahead for so long.
The evacuation at Dunkirk would not have been possible without the bravery of French troops who defended the perimeter. Many thousands of French troops died. The Dunkirk myth of plucky Britain going it alone was as false then as it is dangerous today
At the end, all Brexit conversations end up the same. You bloody foreigner coming here and help our fishing industry prosper, how dare you want to save our industry from another Tory betrayal. I'll keep on speaking out for what I think is right for my children and grandchildren.
Why do you think as an SNP supporting Frenchman you have the right to try to overturn the sovereign vote of 17.5 million Britons who said they want their money, laws, borders & fisheries back
@Christia_Allard
?! Are you some kind of poor mans version of George Soros...?
Daily Mail has found some proper dirt on the Scottish judges who ruled prorogation to be unlawful. It turns out one has a "passion for France." Another is a "jazz lover" who predicted Brexit would be "an onerous task." Scandalous stuff
I won’t register, I shall not pay, I won’t apply to be denied the right to stay in my own home of 35 years. I blame you
@RuthDavidsonMSP
for
#BrexitBritain
We have a far right Prime Minister, listen and tell me why Scotland should not be Independent.
I am a migrant, proud to be a migrant, standing up for all migrants’ rights.
Stop populism,
#VoteSNP
I won't apply to be denied the right to remain in my own home and to live amongst my family and friends of more than 35 years. I know my rights and this is wrong.
Apologise
@RuthDavidsonMSP
"The head of Scotland’s Royal Botanic Garden has spoken of his anger and frustration after his French wife of 24 years was refused a UK permanent residency card." Xenophobic and inhumane Tory
#BrexitBritain
🏴 Scotland’s green renewables sector has produced more than 100% of Scotland’s electricity demand for first time!
⚡️ Scotland has the energy and the talent to thrive in a more sustainable future, we just need the powers.
📖 Read more here:
🏴🤝🇫🇷
"Remember that across the Channel, you can count on friends who have not forgotten that the Scots are a great European people, and that Scotland is a friend and a historical ally of France."
I won’t be processed, I won’t apply to be denied my right to remain in my own home amongst my family and friends of more than 35 years.
I know my right and this is wrong.
🏴 après le Brexit, quel avenir pour l'Ecosse ?
🗳️ la population avait massivement voté pour un maintien dans l'Europe
🇬🇧 sa Première ministre
@NicolaSturgeon
réclame maintenant l'indépendance. Les raisons avec l'ancien eurodéputé écossais
@Christia_Allard
sur
@franceinfo
Brexit is not an event but the continuation of a xenophobic environment created by politicians the last 30 years whatever they voted for leave or remain.
As a foreigner, standing as a candidate in May, I am asking you to cast your vote for
@theSNP
#EuropeanElections2019
EU citizens have been facing increased racism & xenophobia. Tony Blair found out who is guilty: unwilling foreigners.
Very disappointing piece of victim blaming by Tony Blair.
Stress?
@RossThomson_MP
should try to walk a mile in our shoes
@the3million
. He asked and campaigned for Brexit, I didn't and yet I don't know if I'll be allowed to remain in my own home amongst my family and friends of more than 35 years
I haven’t heard from
@ScotTories
,
@david_duguid
or
@Jackson_Carlaw
, no apology here.
I read that the claim is not racist or xenophobic, I disagree.
Since Brexit, migrants and folk who sound or look foreign have been on the receiving end of such comments, this is not acceptable.
I shall not register, I won't pay, I won't apply for the right to stay in my own home of 34 years, I shall not be denied the right to live among my friends and family. I know my rights. Xenophobic, despicable and inhumane Tory
#BrexitBritain
is wrong.
This year, I will not voluntarily "register" myself into a list to get the
#SettledStatus
once it'll be live.
1. We don't know what is it. Not agreed.
2. Settled status is illegal during the
#EU
membership or Transition period.
3. I don't want the Home Office to have my data.
Nicola made a big impression on Boris Johnson, he can’t stop talking about our First Minister. I understand why he didn’t want her to be there, he chickened out.
EU regulation covers fresh fish, not smoked fish. Food safety regulations in the UK are dealt with by the Food Standards Agency. The UK's Food Standard Agency says food manufacturers must transport food so it is fit to eat. the Isle of Man is neither in the UK nor the EU.
The beautiful game of football was invented and first played in
#Aberdeen
.
A pocket sized book called Vocabula which was written in Latin in 1633 is the earliest recording of a game of football. It was written by Aberdeen Grammar School teacher and school-master David Wedderburn.
“We want you back”
PM Boris Johnson invites European workers who left the UK as lockdown began to return now it is being eased and retail sector is reopening
I am 100% Scottish, I am 100% French and 100% European.
Just a wee reminder for folk who think Twitter is where I said this first. We live in the 21st century and people are travelling more than ever, let’s define ourselves beyond of where we were born.
Ruling out automatic deportation of EU citizens is not ruling out deportation of EU citizens and it is certainly not automatically granting EU citizens indefinite leave to remain in the UK as promised by the Leave campaign of Boris Johnson.
#indyref2020
Another one taking the time to show me my own front door. I live here, I can’t undo my 3 children and my 4 grandchildren, I can’t undo my life in the UK.
If not
#indyref2020
then what?
I won’t apply to be denied my right to remain in my own home living amongst my family and friends of more than 35 years.
I know my right and this is wrong.
Why have so many EU nationals not applied for settled status after Brexit?
This is why I won’t apply to be denied my right to remain in my own home living amongst my friends and family for more than 35 years.
Inhumane , xenophobic and despicable Tory
#BrexitBritain
I know my right and this is wrong:
Bath baker 'betrayed' as he's denied settled status after Brexit
Another shameful disgrace in Brexit Britain
You should not be able to be thrown out of your home of 30 years because you can’t find documents you never knew you would have to keep
´Desperate women are said to be resorting to prostitution on the streets of Aberdeen to make ends meet because of the crippling effect of universal credit.´
In the wealthiest city in Scotland, in the EU oil and gas capital, don’t vote Conservative,
#VoteSNP
#EUElections2019
#tellEURfriend
In Scotland,
#VoteSNP
for a French candidate to represent you at the European Parliament.
You have until 7 May to register.
Get 3 people who are not on social media to do the same!
Scunnered
Someone called us EU nationals living here "bloodsuckers" on live TV yesterday. Enough is enough, whoever is in charge, get our right to remain in our own homes ring-fenced in primary legislation now.
Christian, a Frenchman fae Aberdeeen
Emma is Irish. But the Home Office says she's British, because she was born in Northern Ireland. So she took them to court – and won.
Now her story is raising questions about
#Brexit
, the Good Friday Agreement, and Northern Irish identity
@timesscotland
A row? The Scottish Parliament will legislate as it wants to legislate.
What the point of devolution if all legislations are to be the same across the United Kingdom?
Listen to yourself