European Movement in Wandsworth and Merton

07/09/2026

We've lost 6-8% GDP due to Brexit and will continue losing £3,000 PER HEAD every year until we'll start talking about it, a new study claims.

Emma Knaggs, from pro-EU group European Movement UK, said leaving the EU had “hit us all in the pocket”.

She said: “While EU countries continue to trade with ease, UK businesses now waste tens of thousands of hours and millions of pounds meeting red-tape requirements that simply were not there before.

“That translates to billions of pounds of lost revenue that isn't available for vital services like the NHS. To deliver the government’s own agenda for growth, ease cost-of-living pressure for all of us and boost our public services, being part of the single market and ultimately the EU is the best way to achieve it. A decade on, the UK’s experiment with life outside the world’s biggest free market has failed with death by a thousand cuts. The time to be honest about that is long overdue.”

Exclusive: Nigel Farage is a ‘spectre’ impeding the UK’s recovery from Brexit, which has cost the UK £3,000 per person every year, Professor Nick Bloom says

06/09/2026

Any poets here, dead or alive? Our friends from North Yorkshire for Europe have a poetry competition for you!

🇪🇺 10 years since Brexit. Got feelings? Put them in a poem.🇪🇺

North Yorkshire for Europe's poetry competition is open — theme: Brexit Ten Years On. Any form, max 20 lines. Prizes, an eBook for all entrants, and winning poems read aloud at the European Movement Regional conference in York on 7th November.

Please share the competition with family and friends and anyone else you think might be interested.

📅 Enter by 1 October 2026
✍️ Full details and how to enter: https://nyfe.org.uk/

06/09/2026

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06/09/2026

More people think that Brexit was the "wrong turn" than right turn in every age group, including 65+. The result is the same in every region of the country. Only in small number of small areas both opinions are split. The overall verdict across all adults is 21% "more of a right turn" and 55% "more of a wrong turn".
The only two groups in favour of Brexit are the Conservatives and - especially - Reform voters. Nothing to worry about! It's OK to be in minority. 😃

Do you think that Brexit marked more of a right turn, more of a wrong turn, or neither a right nor wrong turn for the UK?

28/08/2026

Mamma mia! Here we go again!
And it's worse than you thought!

The UK left the European Union at the end of January 2020, and in the years since there have been regular complaints from the music industry about the impact that ‘Brexit’ had on British artists touring Europe.

10/08/2026

We're having good time betraying Brexit in one of the best beer garden in London! Greetings to fellow members of the European Movement UK.

10/08/2026

Some 2500 British nationals living in Sweden alone have faced the rather drastic consequences of Brexit. Ending freedom of movement works both ways and created a new administrative burden everywhere, in UK and in EU Member States. Inevitably, some cases feel plainly unjust - both for European nationals in UK and British nationals abroad. One could wonder what Boris Johnson has to say to Joyce Thomas, a retired widow, facing expulsion from Sweden?

Authorities say application to stay was made too late, as UK officials say Sweden takes ‘stricter approach’ than other EU countries

03/08/2026

Brexit is like smoking for health, just for the country.
Maybe we should stop?

Forecasters were wrong about an immediate recession but right that we would be worse off outside the EU

29/07/2026

With Summer in full swing, our August social is a great opportunity to relax with fellow Europhiles!
Join us in one of the best beer gardens in London.

When: August 10, 2026 at 19:00 - 10pm
Where: The Leather Bottle, 538 Garratt Ln, Earlsfield SW17 0NY

All members and supporters welcome.
RSVP today.

Since 1949, we've held an unshakable belief in our country, that together, we are better with Europe. Join the European Movement today.

11/07/2026

Another Eurometer, another gauge of the will of the people!