EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

Stuff I grow on the allotment without the industrial benefit(?) of chemical inputs / artifical light / controlled temps tends to be smaller but tastier than owt from the supermarket.

Yes, however these were your ordinary everyday bag of industrial British carrots, which we’ve very often bought before, and from the size and heft of them they could be used to fend off a mugger. It was just odd that nearly all of the produce aisle was noticeably smaller produce.

we had red peppers grown in NL that were smaller than tomatoes recently

I've got some of them growing at home this year .

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Pire speculation here from me: It might be the case that there's less chemical input available due to brexit = smaller produce from the industrial scale growers.

I eat carrots raw mostly.

Maybe these were "mini" peppers but packed wrong.

My first car was a sweet red mini.

first car was a sweet red mini

This was my first sweet red car .

(aged 8)

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Has this been discussed yet? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/22/eu-to-lift-its-ban-on-feeding-animal-remains-to-domestic-livestock

What impact will it have on any future food standard alignment?

This is a pretty tough read - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jun/28/the-anxiety-is-palpable-eu-citizens-face-looming-settled-status-deadline

There absolutely should be an extension and I don't see it as a failure on any side that it is required.

nah they should be sent to Rwanda till they can be processed

same for british thickos in spain

Would make for an amusing documentary....watching Terry wondering round Kigali looking for a cafe.

IIRC your passport issuing authority may forbid you from sending your passport to the HO, and the HO’s legal right to demand that you do so is also questionable. This from reading threads on Twitter about the subject from a while ago, so may of course be total bollocks.

Perhaps? It was never brought up on the Dutch forums I am on. But... perhaps some countries don't allow it.

I sent it as I wanted to avoid those %$%£%$ of Sopra Steria, you can pay for a certified copy there. You can ALSO copy ALL pages at a solicitor (also not free) but with lockdown last year that was just tricky.

Ended up having to pay them anyway for biometrics at Sopra Steria anyway...which used to be £25 at the post office with many appointments to £80 and very few.

Yey.

Lovely local staff, just utter ballicks of outsourcing in plain view. More expensive, worse service.

Ah now, I get terrible sunburn there ;)

In a way, the government won't come down very hard soon, BUT... that sort of technical detail is not published so everyone is very worried. Basically if you miss the deadline, you didn't enter the country illegally as you lived here anyway, so they can choose to be gentle and it looks they may in the background.

It is causing problems with renting for sure, no EUSS, yes, your landlord CAN rent to you if you show you applied but they probably won't bother. For you 10 others.

It is also not clear what they do after EU EJC protection ends in 8 years... right now the EU keeps an eye out. And people are super nervous about traveling... there are also problems with names with unusual spelling, kids EUSS being delayed.

I know they are working through it in the HO, but come on... as you say, just extend the deadline. And give us a card, as the digital status doesn't work so well either.

What is just sad and infuriating is that leave (Boris / Gove / Patel ) promised they would not do this (automatic rights to stay...) but instead it is "immigrants treat the country too much like their own" (Boris) and Patel, em wow. Gove, who knows? He did offer free UK citizenship for Tory leadership but did he mean it? (also it is Gove, eww)

They seem to pander to the lowest instincts of the UK. With such a majority they can choose to do the kind things, but, nope.

I haven’t seen the sources for those claims, but it seems to me to be half truths. Technically an issuing government can forbid the holder from doing anything with the passport, including send it away for immigration purposes, but it would be unusual.

In theory, since national passports are the property of their sovereign issuer, foreign governments can’t impound or retain them either. However, it is understood that foreign governments can require the document to be sent to them for visa and other purposes.

In practice, retention happens a lot, like in US court cases where there’s a flight risk and the judge doesn’t care about breaking international treaties, or when hotels keep travellers documents to guarantee payment for a room. Is it legal? Very likely not, but it’s normal.

Who ever handed over a passport to a hotel. Thats what driving licences are for or a photocopy or a bank card.

Pry my passport from my cold dead body.

Chickens roosting on shaded Uplands.

https://twitter.com/KayBurley/status/1409443643371438083?s=19

The Def Leppard ate my face...

(stolen from reddit)

Who ever handed over a passport to a hotel. Thats what driving licences are for or a photocopy or a bank card.

So many people. Certain Latin American countries require it, or did at one point. Think back just 10 years before everything was online and most places accepted bank cards. If you didn’t play ball you could find yourself in a right spot.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-57666255

NI protocol is lawful and doesn't break GFA.

Not that this British court decision will stop a minority of Brexit peddlers complaining. Edit: The ones that feel so very British :)

Boris is still blaming the EU of course.

We can get an extensions for sausages but not for people.

The extension has to be granted by the UK...not the EU.

It is fully in the power of the UK to do so.

But, nope. Granting an extension to us doesn't look good to the Gammonry voter base.

Of course the UK government is "very concerned about Brits abroad" hmmmm the ones you don't help much and have to rely on charities/local government?

Ultimately I wonder how much is going to be done by the EU for the furrin's here and by the UK for the Brits abroad, as the citizen right parts of Brexit is under EJC supervision for 8 years.

There may very well be court cases coming.

Just to make the UK gov look good to have a message of "look, we scored a win over the evil eu"