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Yup, he has dual citizenship through his wife.

My understanding is that rule applies to his kids but not him. If the partner of a German citizen naturalizes they have to give up their previous citizenship unless EU.

https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/faqs/EN/topics/migration/staatsang/Doppelte_Staatsangehoerigkeit_Mehrstaatigkeit_en.html

If he got it before Brexit went live he can keep both.

But who will have him?

Cyprus are usually chill when it comes to Russian cash.

Didn’t he apply for a German passport in 2016?

Trying to get it done before his marriage to his German wife finished? In 2017 they were separated.

Ex-wife now.

Ex-wife now

Are they divorced? I can only find 'living separate lives' references.

To get citizenship through marriage he would also of had to live in German for 3 years but references to the family home put that in Kent.

Much as I can see the attraction of him having a personal cake and eat it arrangement I can't find any evidence for it.

I'm certain either Putin or Lukashenko will offer the Hero of the Brexit campaign a passport.

Gutted for him

btw - if he had his accounts closed without being given a reason, it's most likely there's been a tip off about money laundering.

Isn’t he a classic example of a PEP (Politically Exposed Person)? With sanctions against Russia and him receiving large sums of cash from Russia Today (allegedly), one can join the dots.

Yeah, he's been a PEP forever. Something's got too hot that they're dropping him now tho.

Cops are in schools to brainwash kids into ratting each other out. They search kids and kids’ lockers. They get kids to submit fingerprints and DNA samples.
They get kids they don’t like “into the system” ie they arrest the kids for something trivial to create a criminal record. Even if the kid gets off the charge, there is now a record of an arrest in the system.
Cops in schools have nothing to do with safety.

BTW that cop’s pension is over $100k/year.
Not bad for a job with such minimal standards of education and ethics.

Swedish police gave a man a permit to burn a Koran, near a central mosque, around the time of the Eid. WTF

milquetoast

Had to google this word, I've literally never seen or heard it. Every day's a school day.

To be fair to the Swedish police it sounds like they didn't have much choice:

Last year, Swedish police reportedly rejected two applications for Quran burnings outside the Turkish and Iraqi embassies.

These were denied because Swedish intelligence said the risk was too great considering the rise in terrorist activity around the same time.

This decision was later the topic of a court case, in which an administrative court ruled it wrong for police to have rejected the applications, with the Court of Appeal reaching a similar conclusion.

Note that it would be illegal to tell Farage if that was the reason, that is itself a tipping-off offence.

Got to say I love how irl everyone is always so begrudging and dismissive of compliance training.

But as the last couple of days in this thread shows, people do actually take it in and can apply it in their everyday lives.

So, the new Tory plan to sort out the NHS within 15 years.

Leaving aside the pack of acknowledgment for why the last 13 years have contributed to where we are, why can my niece and her friend who qualified to practice in the UK as junior doctors in November last year not even get shortlisted for interview?

I guess they went through national recruitment which usually means sitting SJTs (situational judgement tests). Rather like sitting down at a computer for the driving test theory.

Do badly in SJTs and shortlisting for the jobs you have applied for becomes a problem as they don't want you. Usually all graduates get through via the equivalent of clearing for university places....... But could be anywhere, usually the arse end of nowhere.

To get people onto hard to fill places in the arse end of nowhere there is a golden hello called TERS, here in Cumbria it's up to £7000

They qualified in The Philippines then came to the UK to complete PLAB 1 and 2; they passed both first time so are qualified to practice in the UK.

100+ applications later and neither have been shortlisted. We’ve spoken to a consultant who advises that there are too many junior doctors for the number of vacancies. That seems at odds with what we’re told in the media but he’d know much better than us

The Pulse is usually err.... On the pulse

https://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/education-and-training/almost-800-medical-graduates-unallocated-for-fy1-places/

Training places in hospital medicine and Dentistry is very competitive. I am a training program director / educational supervisor / clinical supervisor on the dental side and there are way more applicants than training posts.......

more applicants than training posts.....

Are training posts limited by funding rather than need? So it's in effect an artifical cap rather than a cap set by NHS demand?

At a bit of a tangent but connected, there are insufficient national training places for Educational Psychologists, SaLT, OT etc