The fall of the Tory party

Has your wife travelled abroad with your kids and without you?

My kids have a hyphenated combination of both names so with a bit of imagination you can link us to our kids. They have traveled with my in-laws without us without an issue, presumably because we are white and middle class.

If I was in charge of passport issuing for kids I'd add the people who have parental responsibility to the observations section, there are too many family arrangements to go on surname.

(We are aware that our choice of surname for our kids is crap as it is long and doesn't scale if/when they get married or have kids but we couldn't think of anything better at the time and it's not the biggest problem our generation have left for them to sort out so meh. They appear to be globally unique at the moment which isn't great if they don't want to reveal all to a relative stranger, we should all be able to anonymous at times)

I changed my name because I made a mistake booking a flight and it was cheaper than changing the ticket

At the very least, having already spent 3 years at DeFRA there shouldn't be an extended fallow period as a newbie aquaints themselves with the issues.
The sunset clause on EU legislation might be more of a threat to the environment.

My children have my partner's surname. I did not change my name.

When I (often) travel alone with them I take a signed letter from my partner as per the guidelines on the FCO website.

It lives in my passport.

I also have a photo of their birth certificates on my phone, but have never needed it.

It's very simple and has never caused me any problems.

Caveat: none of us are brown.

You are in a position of power you're completely unfit to occupy, right?

Yes
And apologies
I was tired and emotional yesterday
I should have switched my phone off

I should just have taken my wife’s surname, instead we double barrelled them both together

snap! we've got the added fun of one half being Polish (albeit without too many consonants) and the English one having a 'w' in which makes saying it in Polish (as a 'v') almost nonsensical...

Same but also doing it in Spain. Where the letter “k” doesn’t exist.

40 years I've struggled with this and now I'm feeling I've had it easy.

It does in the Baskkkkkkkk xxxxxxcountry

They took them all :)

One day there'll be a perfect line up on the Velogames categories for first names as surnames team again. It was much easier when Dan, Guillaume, and Tony were all riding the same races.

Labour granted UQ about Braverman's reappointment

Tofu, etc. bingo cards at the ready...

imagine if you have a visa (BRP) and you change your name how much of a ball ache and a cost it would be to deal with Home Office

Hi guys, do you know exactly how interesting surname chat is to people trying to bear witness to the self-destruction of the Tory party?

Given de Pfeffel hides half his name it’s fairly relevant.

Not to mention the acquired nature of the name Johnson...

It accounted for Rees-Mogg.

And Truss...
A surname to relish

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Why do people make such a thing about names? It's not as if he chose it, nor chose which schools he went to.

He did, however, choose to be a cunt, so focus on that.

This ad hominem shite is just boring.

Thought Starmer had a pretty strong PMQ's and Sunak came across like a rubbish version of Boris. Sunak's gushing over Braverman was something else but wouldn't answer if offical's had expressed concerns about her re-appointment.

Tories going on about Corbyn is 100% weak sauce.

yeh and North London jibes, does that land within anyone? Don't think anyone cares

Don't think anyone cares

I think you have to live in / near London to know what it means, which means you likely aren't going to vote Tory anyway. It'd certainly mean you know where South Kensington is (where Sunak lives in a mews mansion) anyway.

The Spainish folk do that right? Both parents’ surnames, no hyphen. Seems good.

It's not totally comparable to a UK double-barrelled surname though as people only really use the first (father's) surname in conversation.

The people who vote Tory don't watch PMQs and get all their opinions from Murdoch/Lord Rothermere