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EU races ahead on asylum and immigration deal
In anticipation of natural disasters and war, the EU has agreed plans to deal with the inevitable displacement of the vulnerable, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines. On Wednesday, the EU sealed a historic deal on the future management of asylum...
Bremainers Ask ……… Dominic Grieve KC
Dominic Grieve was Attorney General (2010-2014), served as Shadow Home Secretary and was MP for Beaconsfield (1997-2019), as well as chairing Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee. He is also president of the Franco-British Society, holder of the Legion of...
National Rejoin March II – Saturday 23rd September
Bremainers March For RejoinSaturday 23rd September 2023 Keeping up with the march as it happened.“We marched for an end to Brexit, we marched for a second referendum, and we’ll keep marching until the politicians catch up with common sense and the British public and...
Bremain in Spain in London
The second National Rejoin March heralds a turn of the tide that will bring the UK closer and closer to the heart of Europe, writes Bremain treasurer Helen Johnston for Yorkshire Bylines. Members of campaign group Bremain in Spain had a busy and productive weekend in...
‘Our Star’ a symbol of European unity and peace
Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE visits the European parliament to witness the inauguration of ‘Our Star’, a symbol of friendship, unity and hope and writes this article for Yorkshire Bylines.On Wednesday 20 September, en route to the Bremain in Spain AGM and the National...
Brexit cost us our global reputation
The government can continue to stick plasters over Brexit, but the damage it has done to Britons abroad is undeniable, writes Bremain Vice Chair Lisa Burton for The New European.We Brits love to emigrate, with almost one in ten living overseas. Yet, the portrayal of...
Free speech hypocrites and fake patriotism exposed: EU flags at the Proms
What is the real meaning of patriotism? Are those who waved EU flags at the Proms more patriotic than those who attack them, asks Bremain Vice Chair Lisa Burton for Yorkshire Bylines? Watching the furore over the people waving flags at the Last Night of the...
Triple lock under threat from the Conservatives, again
Sunak declines to confirm whether or not the triple lock on pensions will be retained in the Conservative manifesto, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines. At PMQs this week, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stated he was “committed” to the triple lock...
Defining patriotism: why a Welsh immigrant in Spain campaigns for the UK to rejoin the EU
Bremain Vice Chair Lisa Burton writes for Bylines Cymru. Lisa lives in Spain but that doesn’t make her any less Welsh, or care any less about the UK. Join her on the March to Rejoin the EUThere’s a saying. You can take the girl out of the Valleys, but you can’t take...
Bremainers Ask…… Professor Michaela Benson
Michaela is a sociologist with expertise in migration, citizenship and identity. She is particularly known for her research on lifestyle migration, the middle classes, and Britain's relationship to its emigrants and overseas citizens at moments of major political...
Bremainers Ask Revisited ……
In our occasional “Bremainers Ask Revisited” feature, we ask former contributors to comment on the current state of play, and Brexit in particular. This time we asked Marina Purkiss (Jeremy Kyle Show/Bylines/Trawl Podcast), Professor Anand Menon (Director, UK in a...
A place in the sun no longer: the dreams broken by Brexit
Second home ownership and retirement to the continent, once within reach of ordinary citizens, is now the preserve of the wealthy, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines. Last week, the government published the results of the English Housing...
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Wha a lame excuse
The usual ' one rule for them' another for us
The EU’s youth mobility proposal
Our leaders may have been too hasty in rejecting the EU’s proposed youth mobility scheme so soon – it offered mobility, not freedom of movement
by @Suewilson91 MBE in @YorksBylines
#YouthMobility
As a journalist, I understand why Liz Truss is getting so many interviews. But there is something deeply jarring about seeing someone with such intellectual deficit, such delusion, such misinformation, being given platform after platform. Might reflect how we got in this mess IDK