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Prof Tanja Bueltmann  Profile picture
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Oct 7, 2018 • 18 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
Earlier this week, as I was doing some prep for my @CakeWatchCast debut, I realised that today would, for me, mark *1250 days* of public pro-EU campaigning - since the EUref obviously also against Brexit and for citizens' rights. That is a long time and worth some reflections. 1/
What many of you probably don't know as you weren't following me at the time: it all began with a focus on HE and academia as the first thing I did was set up a pro-EU group for Academics. 2/
Since then a lot has happened and many things have changed - not least the number of my followers. I am very grateful to you all for taking an interest in what I have to say. 3/
One of the key moments will always be this: it was meant to be the end of my taking the stand .... and ended up having the opposite effect by really turning it into the beginning. 4/
Following the EUref, there was all of this - many wonderful moments in what is a truly awful shitshow. 5/
It's been my privilege to use the platform I managed to build to speak about citizens' rights, for instance through these. theguardian.com/profile/tanja-… 6/
Or, most recently, this: 7/
But there was lots of this ... 8/
And lots more ...
9/
Then there was this ... 10/
And also stuff like this 11/
What has happened over the last 8 weeks or so makes the above look like peanuts. I talk a bit more about it in @CakeWatchCast here cakewatch.fireside.fm/26 12/
But for some that too is a problem, it seems. This email looks like this, with 'Message' at the front, as it came via the website contact form from my campaign site. 13/
My campaign. #EUcitizensChampion. It's what I am proudest of in all of this. Because I know how the money raised will help @The3Million do their vital, vital work. To enable them to do that - that's why I founded the campaign in the first place: politics.co.uk/comment-analys… 14/
It sure was the story of my summer and I will be forever grateful to all who helped me do this. twitter.com/i/moments/1030… 15/
But what good is any of that when nobody has made a donation in 20 days? When so many now tell me that they cannot support my campaign because it is not, in itself, anti-Brexit? gofundme.com/eucitizenscham… 16/
When, even after I tell them that a #PeoplesVote may not be the solution for EU citizens if it comes because I am pretty sure that there will be some form of application/registration for us in any case, no matter what, the answer remains the same? 17/
What, after 1250 days of all this, am I meant to say to that? What am I meant to make of it? You tell me. Because I don't know the answer to this. 18/18

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Oct 2, 2018
.@sajidjavid told his story at #CPC18 and discussed the "word 'home'". Personal stories and home--both very important, yes. So I'm going to tell you mine @sajidjavid: my story as an EU migrant exercising freedom of movement and that of the place I considered my home, the UK. 1/
It's a story that according to you and @theresa_may shouldn't exist. Why? Because based on your immigration proposals the UK would not be my home. Had the rules you set out today existed when I was thinking of making the UK my home, I would not have been able to come. Because 2/
when I was offered my first job here, PhD in hand, I was paid £26k p.a., so well below the salary threshold you think should determine who can or cannot come to the UK, define who contributes to life here. Based on that I would not be here. That's where my story would end. 3/
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Oct 2, 2018
.@theresa_may So it’s freedom of movement and immigration again. Ok, but then let’s talk about what your words *really* mean.
➡️ This really means that 65 million Britons will lose the right to freedom of movement and if you want visa for us, they’ll have to have them too. 1/
➡️ This really means that 65 million Britons, for the first time in decades, will not be able to freely choose where in 30 countries they want to live, work and love. 2/
➡️ This really means that 65 million Britons are being lied to yet again about the impact of freedom of movement—and after the govt’s own report made it clear that the contribution of EEA citizens is very positive. These lies won’t help “ordinary working people” one bit. 3/
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Sep 27, 2018
I have long since expressed concerns about how migration is being taught at schools in the UK. This is from a Year 8 'knowledge organiser' used by an Academy; it confirms why there is every reason to be concerned.
[I am sharing this with permission from a pupil's parent]. 1/
Some parts of the organiser are ok -- it starts off, for example, with points about why migrants might leave their country of birth, referring to push and pull factors. But what follows then (the bit on the image above) is profoundly worrying and simply shocking. 2/
To single out one group of EU nationals - Polish - is problematic enough. But what is extremely concerning is that the points then made RE: problems are factually incorrect, Moreover, to cast this in terms of "unsustainability" is also a grave misjudgement. And to suggest that 3/
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Sep 23, 2018
As promised, here is the link to 🔺Endangered Rights: The Impact of Brexit on EU Citizens🔺published with @FES_GB/@FESonline. If you want to help raise awareness RE the situation of @The3Million & @BritishInEurope, please read it and share it widely. library.fes.de/pdf-files/id/1… 1/
People often ask me what they can do to help: sharing this publication is one concrete step you can take. As it’s available electronically, it’s easy to do. You could email it to your MP, for example, and ask them to support the recommendation I make at the end. 2/
The publication will be publicised in the UK and throughout the EU, including in Brussels, by FES offices to help make sure that no citizen of @The3Million nor of @BritishInEurope is left behind because of Brexit. 3/
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Sep 21, 2018
When I boarded the train to London early this morning I knew my day would be focused on the rights of @The3Million: today I am pleased to announce the publication of “Endangered Rights: The Impact of Brexit on EU Citizens” with @FES_GB.
Little did I know how topical I’d be!
1/
My thanks to @FES_GB for publishing this as part of its Perspective series to help raise awareness of the still unresolved #citizensrights concerns of @The3Million & @BritishInEurope. Thanks in particular to the Director of the FES London office, Christos Katsioulis. 2/
The publication will be available from the FES website later this week. It will be publicised in the UK and throughout the EU, including in Brussels, by FES offices to help make sure that no @The3Million nor @BritishInEurope citizen is left behind because of Brexit. 3/
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Sep 20, 2018
Since Cameron announced the EUref, many politicians, commentators and large parts of the press, have played with the lives of millions of EU27 citizens. Yet despite that, we are apparently wrong to take issue with a video game that places us into a ghetto post-Brexit. 1/
Wrong that we wonder why on earth @bbc would just go with that, happily tweeting that "the player tries to live as a European immigrant in a post-Brexit UK". Yes, trying to live ... that is what the 3.7 million of us are trying to do. Because this is our home, not a game. 2/
Can those defending the game really not see what bad a call this was? At a time in which hate crimes are committed against us, and where we remain in limbo and have no guarantees, how could the idea of placing us in a ghetto not be considered misjudged? Can you really not 3/
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