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Buying products from the EU after Brexit: a hefty price to pay
Anyone ordering goods from the EU in 2021 has likely come in for a nasty shock to the wallet. The advertised price, paid in good faith when ordering online, has not been the end of the story, or to the costs. The same has applied to EU residents or businesses ordering...
Open Letter to Lord Frost
Dear Lord Frost, You probably won’t have heard of me, but I’m a regular correspondent with your partner in crime, the prime minister. Perhaps he has mentioned me in passing as that irritating women with the MBE that lives in Spain. I am writing to thank you for the...
Bremain Presents Evidence re The Elections Bill
On Tuesday 7 September, the government’s Elections Bill returned to the House of Commons for the second reading. The Commons debate coincided with an evidence gathering session of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) on the same...
Getting Brexit undone
Brexit is barely nine months old but is not ageing well, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE. The ‘fabulous’ deal that Prime Minister Johnson and Brexit negotiator Lord Frost raved about last December, has lost all its shine – especially, it seems, to those who...
Bremainers Ask Revisited – Part 5
As part of our regular Bremainers Ask feature, we occasionally ask previous contributors to comment on the latest political developments. This month we are delighted to welcome back Naomi Smith, Ian Dunt and Jonathan Lis who have all agreed to comment on the current...
Hands off my Pension!
British pensioners are worried about their income. For those reliant solely on the state pension, it can be a struggle to survive on what is the “world’s third worst” pension, and the lowest rate across Europe, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for West Country...
Events 2021
27th September In person meeting (at Labour Party Conference - Brighton) 17.30 – 19.00 BST Labour for a European FutureWhat should Labour’s Europe policy be at GE?Speakers include:Mike Buckley, Hilary Benn MP, Paul Blomfield MPRegister to attend here 15th September...
Parliamentary inquiry into elections bill takes evidence
On 26 July 2021, the public administration and constitutional affairs committee (PACAC) launched an inquiry into the elections bill, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson for Yorkshire Bylines. It is the latest of 13 ongoing inquiries that the House of Commons committee is...
The Spanish Healthcare System – a personal view
In June 2005 we moved to the Southern Costa Blanca of Spain, a region the World Health Organisation declared as one of the most healthy climates in the world, writes Bremain Council member Mike Phillips for Kent Bylines. My wife Anne, as a pensioner, was able to...
Climate crisis: action vs hypocrisy
Last weekend saw my home region of Spain – the Valencian Community – brace for the first real ola de calor of the 2021 season, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson for Yorkshire Bylines. Warm air from the Sahara brought temperatures of over 40 degrees Celsius, with the...
Denying care to the elderly? Age is just a number
In five weeks’ time, I will celebrate being 68 years old, or young, depending on your outlook, and probably your own age. Brexit and covid aside, I am the happiest, most contented I have ever been in my life, and probably the fittest and most active too, writes...
Travel farce: anger from British nationals in Europe
Thursday last week, the UK government made the long-awaited travel rules announcement: from 4am on 2 August, European citizens who were fully vaccinated would no longer have to isolate for ten days if travelling to the UK from amber list countries, with certain...
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