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“It matters to me because 15 years ago my family moved out to Spain thinking that we would always be able to live in our adopted home. We love living in Spain and the thought of having to move back to the UK fills us with dread. Our daughter has gone through secondary schooling and university leaving with 2 degrees including a Masters and is now working. She is very capable of getting citizenship but the fact that if Brexit goes through we (her parents) may have to go back to the UK if the health arrangements are no longer reciprocal. We are paying a private health insurance at the moment but as we get older that will become much more expensive and unaffordable for us. As the Spanish citizenship does not allow dual nationality if we are in the UK and she is a Spanish citizen how easy will it be for her to visit us or move back to the UK? Will her qualifications be acceptable if we have to move back? This whole fiasco needs to be halted and common sense return to the country. Brexit needs to be stopped.” “It matters to me as it matters to everybody. It will affect me and will affect everybody. It is segregation and backward thinking. Not future or clever thinking. It's causing stress and separating humans and human goodness and spirit. It's a disaster. And I want to go back to before all this nonsense. These Politicians need to go back to school as they have not been taught well. I want it fixed and get back to common sense and reunite again... Normality! #stopbrexit” “It matters to me because I am not parochial, insular or inward-looking. I do not wish to ring-fence Britain. I'm in the age group that voted to leave, but I am not one of them. I voted to remain because I have 7 grandchildren (so far!) and I can see that the UK is betraying their future. The 2 eldest want to work abroad, one as a computer specialist and the other as an obstetrician. Currently they are at university and 'A' level stage at present. My youngest grandchild is 5 weeks old. What are his chances of an education and job that embraces Europe?” “It matters to me because I have only ever worked in Spain. I emigrated with my mother 43 yrs ago. My daughter is Spanish. Spain is my life.” “It matters to me because I cherish my EU Citizenship and my freedom to travel, study, work and live in such diverse and culturally rich countries with relative ease. My partner and I love Spain and for the last four years our goal has been and continues to be making our house in Spain our forever home. Brexit is the most negative, destructive and divisive political mess that I’ve ever experienced. Losing all the benefits of EU membership is not my will. #ItMattersToMe” “It matters to me because I left Scotland in 1994 to live in the Netherlands. It’s the only home my daughters know (28 and 26). We are European. We have a home in Spain to retire to in 5 years. We are going to be denied freedom of movement, enforced by choices of an incompetent UK government, while the people of Scotland voted to remain in Europe. My soul weeps.” “It matters to me because I may hold a British passport and nationality but I am European and have made my life in Spain, just as my daughters hold Spanish passports and are also European. Through the EU we enrich each other.” “It matters to me because I've lived and worked in Spain for 30 years, my children were born here, my partner is Spanish, my house is here, most of my friends are here and I can't imagine going back to the UK to live. It matters to me because both my children are studying in the UK and I want them to continue to have that freedom of movement. And it matters to me because I am still fond of my home country (fond, definitely not proud) and am afraid that it is becoming insular, racist and the laughing stock of the world.”
“It matters to me because I am the daughter of Europe. My father was Finish my mother’s family came from near Poland. I was born and brought up in the UK but have lived for the last 13 years in Barcelona. My son and daughter were born in Barcelona, my sister lives in Helsinki... It matters to me because Brexit is not in the National interest, people in the UK will be worse off, economically, culturally and with less rights to move freely throughout Europe. My job as a researcher fighting for gender equality in science is funded by the European Commission might be threatened. My and my family’s home is in Barcelona - my children have never lived in the UK - although have family there. Maybe they will want to live there in the future - Brexit means this will be more difficult for them although they currently hold British passports... I could go on forever.....” “It matters to me because I wish for a secure stable Europe in a reformed EU to maintain peace which is without price.. We are one of 28 teabags in a pot. The longer they stay together the stronger the tea. Take one out early the weaker tea but the stronger but weakened teabag is consigned to the dustbin.” “It also matters to me because unified economies, freedom of movement and integrated politics all discourage conflict between nations. Whilst war in Europe is now seen as ridiculous it should not be forgotten how violent and destructive Europe has been, even within the last 100 years. Causation is not correlation but our modern European peace has come to be under the EU and its predecessors...#itmatterstome” “It matters to me on so many levels. In the ‘80s I was a campaigner and supporter of racial and gender equality, now we have Windrush. Now I am a mother and grandmother and I see the freedoms and quality of life of the next generations under threat. I am settled as a Spanish resident and see my hard won and hard payed for rights, health care and pensions being treated with disinterest. I am the daughter of a steel worker and the granddaughter of a miner both of whom are probably turning in their graves to see the UK being dragged to disaster by a right wing Tory elite and the Labour Party standing to one side allowing it to happen. I am a proud European, whatever happens I am staying put. Bless all of you who feel the same.” “It matters to me because my partner works in the UK and any restriction of free movement between countries would be a disaster. It matters to me because I have family in the UK and need to travel there quite often. It matters to me because I have children here and am worried about their future and any limits they will be confronted with. It matters to me because it's just a really really STUPID idea and it should never happen.” “It matters to me partly because my Anglo/Spanish children were born after the forming of the EU. Their passports have always said they are citizens of the European Union as well as of the UK so why should this be forcibly taken away from them? They have many European friends with whom they find a common love of their cultures of freedom, peace and democracy...#itmatterstome” “It matters to me because a national vote that revealed thinly veiled racism is not the kind of world I want to be in. I live in Spain and don't see here the superiority and ex-empire jingoism that brought about Brexit. I want to stay here, please.”
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