Lisa Burton 🏴🇪🇺
@burtonlisa
Vice-Chair @bremaininspain -European Movement UK Nat Exec @euromove - Contributing writer @yorksbylines - Comp Director, campaigner, immigrant. Own opinion
My speech yesterday @MarchForRejoin Only British people have lost freedom of movement - putting only our children and families at a huge disadvantage to our European neighbours. If you celebrate this fact, you are no patriot! #RejoinEU
"There are 3 million British immigrants living in the EU.. After Brexit, moving to an EU country is only an option for the privileged few.. Freedom of movement has gone, but only for the British people. 450 million Europeans, no matter their income, background or social class,…
Why is an MP allowed to lie freely on a news channel @ofcom?
Essex police were literally escorting and bussing masked thugs to and from the protest in Epping. They were caught red-handed helping to light the fuse that led to violence. This is simply unacceptable.
The protests in Epping are coordinated and advertised on a private Facebook page titled Epping Says No. Its administrators include members of a group that calls itself HOMELAND Homeland has been described as the largest fascist group in the UK.. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
I would very much like a list of those MPs not on this list…
221 MPs, from 9 parties, have sent a joint letter to the Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary urging them to recognise Palestine as a state now
"Trump wastes $10M on Scotland golf course visit—and they hate him there" - Daily Kos l.smartnews.com/p-5SQY5rqw/mRj…
"We're called RACIST just for saying we're proud to be British!" 🇬🇧
And who turned up the thermostat?
There were 33k asylum seekers in hotels at the last count, far fewer than 56k peak in Sep23. Main difference now is the political temperature.
Ian Hislop, "It is pretty ludicrous we have got to a state where a man is arrested for carrying a joke? I mean, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, all those things we claim to be interested in?" Shame on @YvetteCooperMP and @Keir_Starmer - this isn't the change any of us…
Brexit is putting bills up and water quality down. It's time for a UK-EU partnership on Energy, Climate and Environment. #OneEarthOneTeam europeanmovement.co.uk/one_earth_one_…
This article… … is, by a long way, the clearest account of the UK government’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza that I have ever read. Please read and share. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/in-al…
Keir Starmer says Gov 'must go further' on the UK-EU reset - including visa waivers for artists and musicians. We've long been calling for action. Support our 'Face The Music' campaign here - not just musicians, but behind-the-scenes staff, dancers, instrument-makers,…
PM @Keir_Starmer on what could be next for 🇬🇧-🇪🇺relations: 💊 “I’d like to do more on medicines” 🎭 “Creative people… are still finding it too difficult” to cross borders 🚀 “By resetting the mood in Europe, we now have a chance to go further”
The judgement in Bradshaw & Others v United Kingdom is being handed down at 9am BST today. Three MPs - Labour’s Ben Bradshaw, the Green’s @CarolineLucas & SNP’s @AlynSmith - who challenged the government on its failure to ensure we have free & fair elections.
NEW: Landmark decision on UK's failure to investigate Russian interference to be handed down tomorrow. A five-year legal battle in UK and European courts comes to a head: will we finally - learn the truth about the Kremlin & the Brexit vote?
More than 100 non-violent protesters were arrested in UK at the weekend They could receive upto a 6 month sentence simply for wearing a badge or T-shirt, for supporting the work of Palestine Action or 14 years if charged as a criminal offence @Suewilson91 yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/crack…
Beat the system with chains and whips... #RejoinEU
UK wants to join EU EU wants to UK to join
Get a room... #RejoinEU
Only a white man in America can… be videotaped with underaged girls while hanging with a child sex trafficker cheat on his wife with a porn actresses and pay her to keep quiet publicly fantasize about having sex with his own daughter openly boast about sexually assaulting…
Absolutely shocking. Labour government implements manifesto commitment.
BREAKING: The UK is set to lower the voting age to 16 in landmark electoral reforms. Julia: "Just when you think things couldn't get any worse... we're going to let kids vote over who runs the country - completely and utterly insane!" @JuliaHB1
Intriguing to hear so many of the objections to votes at 16 today. Consciously or otherwise, so many are exactly the same arguments which were used about every single extension of the franchise since the 19th century.
A generation that voted to trash our economy, NHS, and the fabric of British society, because of a poster they saw on a bus, is currently saying 16-year-olds are too immature and gullible to be allowed to vote... Okay 🤭👍🏿👀 #votesat16
Is anyone seriously saying the average 16 and 17 year old is less capable of making a rational decision than these Brexit voters?
We stole a couple of nights from live gig prep to work up a final parody of the school year. So, prompted by Farage's stunt in the Channel last week, this one's called "Nigel Doesn't Care" and is a twist on the epic @BonJovi track "Livin' on a Prayer". Have a great weekend 😎🎶