Brexit: No visa but Britons will pay €7 to travel to EU countries.

The truth.  The whole truth.  And nothing but the truth?  Well yes and no.   

So, how do you read it?  Every time you board your easyJet flight to the EU you have to pay the equivalent of two Christmas Brulee Latte at Starbucks?  I know, it’s peanuts compared to what you actually will spend for your whole trip.   

But no, you actually don’t have to pay €7 to travel to the EU.  You have to pay €7 for a pass that will allow you, for that one payment, three years of travel.  Pretty good, eh?  

So, assume you go to the EU twice a year, that works out at just over €1 per trip.  And if it is Rome or Barcelona you are going to, that’s a fraction of the Tourist Tax each time and each day you visit these cities.  All those who are saying we couldn’t travel to the EU or go on holiday and so on, what nonsense.

Ah, but can we fly there?  Surely the planes won’t be able to go into EU airspace?  Well, yet another scare story that bears no resemblance to the truth. 

As John Redwood, MP, points out today: “Within the EU the Commission has already made clear that in all circumstances, including a so called No deal (that is no deal with the EU, not No deal) exit, there will be an agreement between the UK and EU after Brexit allowing routine aviation to continue as before between the UK and EU.”  Yet another scare story shot down.