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European Communications Director. #InternalComms Advocate for FOM & Citizens’ Rights #SaveFOM Creator of #BrexitTheElephant Alumnus @durham_uni 🇪🇺

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Andrew Hesselden
5 months
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…
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Andrew Hesselden
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At the end of the day, if you’re anti-immigration with regard to Brexit, it doesn’t matter if you’re British opposed to EU27 immigrants or from another EU27 country, opposed to British immigrants. You’re still an arse. #RejoinEU #ExitBrexit
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@MarchForRejoin
National Rejoin March
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@andrewhesselden Always great to see you! See you in June for the biggest #RejoinMarch yet! ❤️🇪🇺
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Andrew Hesselden
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10 years post-EU referendum and 5 since leaving EU & Single Market, we still have people saying: "We used to be able to do that, and we should still be able to". I think that’s wonderful. 👏 ♥️ 🇪🇺 Brexit changed things. But we haven’t forgotten 🇬🇧. #RejoinEU is possible.
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Andrew Hesselden
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On the day we hoped to be at the #RejoinMarch let’s fill X with photos we took on other EU marches. @MarchForRejoin
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Andrew Hesselden
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Come and follow me on BlueSky
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@SaveFOM
Save Freedom of Movement 🇪🇺 🇬🇧
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Rejoin Rants Podcast - Episode 8 - Helen Johnston and Andrew Hesselden https://t.co/JqLUoc4Wrt via @YouTube
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Andrew Hesselden
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This is on BlueSky too
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Andrew Hesselden
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10 years post-EU referendum and 5 since leaving EU & Single Market, we still have people saying: "We used to be able to do that, and we should still be able to". I think that’s wonderful. 👏 ♥️ 🇪🇺 Brexit changed things. But we haven’t forgotten 🇬🇧. #RejoinEU is possible.
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Andrew Hesselden
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@BrexitRage That's rather rude. I'm a Communications and Change specialist, if that makes any difference to you.
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Andrew Hesselden
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Well, my experience is that increasingly these days you can work in other EU countries, even if you only speak English. And fluency in English itself is often a big selling point for British people even if our education systems are lacking somewhat in professional skills.
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Sheilagh O'Gorman
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It's easy already as long as you have language skills and relevant job skills and qualifications. It isn't if you are unqualified and want to do part time low level work. Esp true for young people who want to work while holidaying
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Andrew Hesselden
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I support UK rejoining the EU as soon as possible, by the fastest route possible. But if that isn’t possible yet, then I want politicians to do everything in their power to make travel, trade and cross border living, working and studying easy again. #RejoinEU #FBPE #Brexit
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Andrew Hesselden
3 years
They persuade people who don’t like YOU, to vote for THEM, because YOU don’t like THEM. YOU not liking THEM is vital for THEM to be liked by those people. After all, if THEY are YOUR enemies then surely THEY must be friends of those people. That’s populism and is how we fuel it.
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Andrew Hesselden
2 months
#Populism explained… They persuade people who don’t like YOU, to vote for THEM, because YOU don’t like THEM. YOU not liking THEM is vital for THEM to be liked by those people. After all, if THEY are YOUR enemies then surely THEY must be friends of those people. That’s
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Andrew Hesselden
2 months
There are two ways to beat populism. 1. The first is through organised, clear and transparent government/state Communications. 2. The second is through compassion and understanding. Populism needs anger and resentment to work. We must starve it of fuel and let our humanity
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Andrew Hesselden
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Still cheesed off with the state of the UK after 15 years? Voting for angry people promising vague changes means you ARE the problem. #populism
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Andrew Hesselden
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And this is on BlueSky too
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Andrew Hesselden
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@NeilHudsonexp Well, I would say that was a problem if the European Parliament or Commission fulfilled the role that the national government is supposed to fill. But while the national governments exist, I don’t think that is a problem.
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@RejoinP
The Rejoin EU Party
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Join us live online this Saturday. 🎥 Watch from anywhere. 📍 No travel. Just log in. #Brexit #RejoinEU 👇👇👇 https://t.co/ZgyESAwF4f
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Andrew Hesselden
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A thread 🧵 So what do we mean by the 90-in-180-day problem? 1. We don’t mean the total number of days is necessarily the problem. The problem is the control period of 180 days, the fact it has to be shared across 29 different countries and the fact it is not a per-visit
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Andrew Hesselden
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A very good, and very lovely friend of mine died recently. She spent her life living and working all over the world. At her funeral, one of the eulogies mentioned how she hated Brexit with a passion and felt intensely frustrated that her dreams of retiring partly or fully in
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