Keep up with the latest from Bremain in Spain
New travel restrictions between UK and Spain start today
All UK visitors to Spain (12 yrs+) must now prove they have been fully vaccinated. A negative covid test is no longer an alternative option, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines. Rising covid cases, and the recent arrival of the Omicron variant,...
Events 2021
16th December Zoom event 2015 - 2200 CET NE Surrey For EuropeBrexit: It's all going just as badly as we knew it would ..... Brexit and NIPSpeaker: Prof Michael DouganSend questions in advance here Register to attend here8th December Online event 16.30 – 18.30 GMT...
Bremainers Ask ……… Jon Danzig Reasons2Rejoin
Jon Danzig is a journalist and film maker who has been campaigning against Brexit since the word was invented in 2012. Formerly an investigative journalist on the BBC Radio 4 ‘Checkpoint’ programme, Jon went on to set up his own film production company, producing...
Lords debate the Brexit impact on food, the environment, energy and health
The government would do well to read the House of Lords EU committee report on Brexit impacts, recently debated in the Lords, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines. Once the government considered Brexit ‘done’, it wound down the scrutiny committees...
Extending the 90 in 180-day rule for British in Spain
The British want to extend the 90 in 180-day rule and the Spanish authorities are calling for it; but it’s not that easy, writes Bremain Vice Chair Lisa Burton for Yorkshire Bylines.The biggest ‘selling point’ of Brexit was the ending of freedom of movement. Its...
Protect your Freedom of Movement and EU Citizenship!
How far would you go to protect your freedom of movement and EU citizenship rights, asks Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE, writing for West England Bylines? Many British citizens have taken the difficult decision to become citizens of an EU country. Here are personal...
How do you ‘Make Brexit Work’?
Labour’s Brexit slogan was met with a mixed response, but will it deliver the election result the party’s seeking, asks Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines? Since the time of the Brexit referendum, the Labour party’s position on Brexit has been, shall...
The UK government won’t tell you this, but the EU wants to hear from you!
The conference on the future of Europe is the largest consultation the European Union has ever undertaken with citizens, including those from the UK, writes Bremain in Spain Vice Chair Lisa Burton for Yorkshire Bylines. It is a vast, multilingual, digital, and...
Bremainers Ask ……. Bremain in Spain Council
Our Bremainers Ask this month is a little different, as it’s a combination of questions asked in the Facebook group, and the Q & A session from our AGM. Steve Harding: If there were another referendum or the winning party at the next UK elections stance was to...
Are Brits Abandoning Spain?
If you’ve been reading the UK tabloids recently, you could be forgiven for thinking there is a mass exodus of British citizens – especially pensioners – repatriating from Spain to the UK, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for West England Bylines.On 3 October, the...
Our Bremain weekend in Málaga
On the 4th weekend in October, the Bremain council headed for Malaga for our annual reunion. On Saturday 23rd, we met for the first time in 18 months, & some of us for the first time ever in person. The occasion was our annual strategy meeting during which we...
When will the government call the next election?
When will the next general election be held and what kind of impact will the pandemic and Brexit have on the choice of timing, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines. There has been much speculation over recent weeks and months about the timing of...
Northern Ireland protocol ‘home stretch’, or more kicking the can down the road?
Over recent weeks, the EU has been promising to come up with practical proposals to resolve issues surrounding the Northern Ireland protocol, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines. Those “far-reaching proposals” were finally announced by vice...
EU membership wasn’t a ‘long bad dream’, but that’s a perfect description for Brexit
At the Conservative Party conference on Monday, Lord David Frost, chief Brexit negotiator, made a speech to a “pretty empty hall”, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines. In his speech, Frost claimed that Britain was entering a “renaissance” and...
Unmasked covid travels – Spain to England, Scotland, Wales and back – like chalk and cheese
Most people know that travelling during the covid pandemic has been challenging, with rapidly changing rules and regulations to follow, writes Bremain Vice Chair Lisa Ryan Burton for Yorkshire Bylines. On a recent visit to the UK from Spain, the differences in...
What can I do? Get involved, stay informed. October 2021
Here you will find a list of events and actions you can get involved with this month by clicking on the links provided. It will be updated monthly and is always included in Bremain´s monthly newsletter. If you haven't signed up already, you can do so here.The...
Closing doors: Brexit and TEFL teaching in Spain
West Country Bylines has recently highlighted how Brexit is affecting the language teaching sector in the UK, with dire impacts on school trips abroad and on the TEFL sector in the UK. Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) has also, for many years, provided...
Bremainers Ask ….. Peter Jukes from Byline Times
Peter Jukes is an English author, screenwriter, playwright, literary critic and journalist. He is also the founder and executive editor of Byline Times and co-founder of Byline Festival. Follow him on Twitter: @peterjuke Pat Kennedy: Why don't more...
Fuel crisis? What crisis?
Ministers are keen to stress there is no fuel shortage and therefore no fuel crisis, just no actual fuel at the pumps, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines.Unless you have been asleep at the wheel, you might have noticed a slight problem with fuel...
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...