'Romanians for Remainians' campaign offers new home to EU-loving Brits

Remainians: the campaign aims to find Romanians who will help Brits apply for ID
Gandul
Hannah Al-Othman29 June 2016

A Romanian newspaper has launched a “Romanians for Remanians” campaign, offering a new European home to the Brits who voted to stay in the European Union.

The Gandul daily newspaper, based in the Romanian capital Bucharest, has urged the 48 per cent of Britons who voted to stay in the EU to make Romania their home.

It tells them they can “leave the Brexiters, the quarrelling and the weather behind” and “start brand new life” in the eastern European country.

The paper has also called on Romanian citizens to volunteer to help “the good people who voted to remain and share European values deserve to be our relatives”.

The advert fails to specify whether “Regrexit” voters - those who opted leave but have since changed their minds - would also be welcome.

The campaign uses a website and a Facebook app to connect “loving Romanian families” with unhappy British people, and allows Romanians to offer to help UK immigrants to apply for a Romanian ID.

Advert: the website matches friendly Romanians with unhappy Brits
Gandul

It is not the newspaper's first advert targeted at Brits, but follows on from a #whydontyoucomeover campaign in 2014.

The first campaign, which used the slogan "in Romania things are not all right, but at least they're not far right", encouraged Britons to "leave Ukip behind."

It was run in response to concerns over an influx of Romanian immigrants to Britain, who it was feared would commit crime, take British jobs, commit crimes and abuse the NHS.

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