Keep up with the latest from Bremain in Spain
What can Britain expect from Brexit in 2023?
When it comes to Brexit, political opinion doesn’t yet match what’s happening on the ground, but it’s edging closer by the day, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines.As we start a new year, it’s only natural to look forward with a degree of...
Voting and standing in local elections – Spain
On 28 May 2023, there will be local elections across Spain, and British and EU citizens officially resident will be able to vote and to stand. Register to Vote To appear on the electoral lists - an essential requirement to be able to vote - it is necessary to...
Harry and Meghan haters: time to face facts, you are being played
For years right-wing tabloids have poured false poison and vitriol over anyone that dares challenge them, now the Sussexes are fighting back, writes Bremain Vice Chair Lisa Burton. No one likes to think our convictions are manipulated by what we read and see in our...
Brexit freedoms bill – bad for your health and the country’s
EU law is not bad for our health and safety – unfortunately, the same cannot be said of our government, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines.Of all the dangerous, anti-democratic pieces of legislation brought forward by our government since...
A letter to the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak
Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE writes an open letter to PM Rishi Sunak for West England Bylines:Dear Prime Minister, Firstly, my apologies for not writing to you before to congratulate you on your new job. I just thought I’d better hang on for a few weeks to make sure...
Economic affairs committee take evidence from the governor of the Bank of England
The governor of the Bank of England talks through the big shocks to the UK economy and the risks to come, but gives no mention to Brexit, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines.On Tuesday 29 November, the governor of the Bank of England (BoE),...
Bremainers Ask ….. Marina Purkiss
Political Commentator, broadcaster and co-host of The Trawl podcast, Marina is very active on social media, with 289,500 Twitter followers. She has her own show, The Table, on BylineTV and regularly appears on the Jeremy Vine Show.Valerie Chaplin: Thank you for your...
Events 2022
3rd December - Electoral Reform SocietyIn person/Online event – 10.30 – 14.00 GMTThe members & supporters Conference & AGM takes place in Cardiff but you can also join online. Open to members only, but you can join in advance hereRegister to attend here1st...
Bremain in Spain Annual General Meeting – 15th November 2022
This year, for the first time, the Bremain AGM was an online event. We had intended to hold the meeting in London to coincide with the National Rejoin March, but due to the death of the Queen, both events were postponed. Bremain Chair Sue Wilson started the meeting by...
“Brexit a roaring success” – have the Tories lost the plot?
A certain kind of desperation is taking hold in Conservative ranks as Brexit delusions begin to crumble in the face of reality, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines.Anyone following British politics over recent months and years will no doubt have...
Brexit is not the “will of the people”
Brexit is in no one’s best interests. It’s time the politicians, like the British public, started to say so, out loud and in public, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines.Back in the day when Theresa May was in charge of Brexit and the country,...
Bremain March for Rejoin – London 22 October 2022
Bremain have never tired in over six years fighting the madness of Brexit. Today that fight moves to a new level. Council and group members have again travelled from Spain to make our voices heard at the National Rejoin March in London. Our own Chair Sue Wilson OBE...
This is not the Brexit you were looking for
Apparently this Brexit is not the one Leave voters wanted, and is certainly not what Remainers wanted, but it’s the one we’re all having to live with, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines. Chief executive of Next, Lord Simon Wolfson, has been...
Home Office still perpetuating dangerous anti-immigration rhetoric
The Home Office does not speak for desperate migrants. It does not speak for businesses crying out for staff. And it certainly does not speak for me, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines.Ever since the Brexit referendum in 2016, the UK has become...
Bremainers Ask ……. Peter Corr
Peter Corr is an ex-army HGV driver who lost his job thanks to Brexit and decided to do something rather special to protest about that. He set up the campaign group ‘UK Rejoin the EU’ to fight against Brexit and recently organised the National Rejoin March - the...
UK economy is “frankly doomed”
Billionaire investor and Tory supporter Guy Hands says the UK economy is "frankly doomed" and has been this way since the failed Brexit deal writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines.The UK economy is “frankly doomed”. So says billionaire investor and...
Triple lock pensions at risk
The triple lock on pensions has been a long-held Conservative Party commitment and manifesto promise. But not any more it seems.Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE writes for Yorkshire Bylines.Whilst financial markets may have felt some relief at the arrival of Jeremy Hunt,...
Open letter to Truss #3 – October 2022
by Sue Wilson MBE Dear Liz, Since our earlier correspondence, (December 2021 and January 2022) it’s good to see that you have finally ditched the multiple hats and roles in favour of focussing on just one job. The big one. I guess I should start by offering my...
We get it, and we have listened: government U-turn on uncosted tax cuts
The country gets it. We have listened. Can we now bring on the general election and rid the country of Trussonomics and KamiKwasi thinking? Bremain Chair,Sue Wilson MBE, writes for Yorkshire Bylines.One of the most unpopular decisions made by the Liz Truss government...
Bremainers Ask….. Baroness Sarah Ludford
Since 1997, Baroness Sarah Ludford has been a member of the House of Lords and is currently the Liberal Democrat’s Europe and Brexit spokesman. She was a Member of the European Parliament for London from 1999 to 2014, working mainly on EU security, justice and human...
Truss lost for words in the face of proper journalism
The prime minister finally emerged from hiding today to give a series of quick-fire interviews on local radio – and it didn’t go well by Sue Wilson MBEUntil her appearance on BBC local radio on Thursday morning, newly minted (if not shiny) PM Liz Truss had been...
Just Biden our time
Waking up to the reality of Brexit - our biggest trading relationship is destroyed and we can't conclude one with the world's biggest economy writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines.Before Liz Truss had even got her feet under her desk at Number 10,...
Liz Truss – Brexit Britain’s anti-monarchist, Remainer PM
‘These are my principles, if you don’t like them, I have others’ seems to be PM Liz Truss’s modus operandi. Lisa Burton, Bremain vice Chair takes a closer look for Yorkshire Bylines“ I’m against the idea that people can be born to rule – that people, because of the...
The King’s first speech
On Friday, King Charles III gave his first speech to a nation in mourning – what did this tell us about the king he plans to be? Sue Wilson MBE, Bremain Chair writes for Yorkshire bylines.The day after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth, on Thursday 8 September,...