EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

Better, but still might get the taxman sniffing around. Reminds me of the Private Eye cartoon with a father with his arm over his son's shoulder, looking out over the rolling countryside saying "One day, son, all this will be in your wife's name".

Or, if you're Philip Green, owned by your wife's Monaco-based trust fund.

You could move to Luxembourg. Learn the language and after 5 years you can get a passport.

So thats it then, tonight the door closes

What’s the most demonstrative and conspicuously expensive route to an EU passport?

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Ffs.

https://twitter.com/Femi_Sorry/status/1278972103056936960?s=19

Is that literally what he said? As the video is next to useless for me.

I can't listen to him or any of them. It makes me physically angry to my core

there's a good agreement to be reached, but obviously if we can't then we will have the very good option also of an Australian style arrangement

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-53268997

And still no clarity around GB <> Ni goods checks, so the agriculture minister refuses to ask for planning for space as he doesn't know what he needs to ask for exactly.

Also... those Brexiters being happy with outside EU immigration/HK citizenship offers (totally agree with that) because "those people will integrate and work hard"

Yeah all us EU immigrants sit on our holes unable to speak a word of English...it is amazing how they just want "control" so they can judge people, but they've no idea that is what it is about.

And still no clarity around GB <> Ni goods checks...

There’s been no clarity to anything from the government and we’re now 6 months away to the end of the EU transition period.

The gaslighting of using Australian style arrangement in place of no deal really boils my piss.

Some on Twitter quipped "Just call it Pakistan style arrangement...it is equally true, then watch how people will react"

Yep, this has been going on for a while. Obviously the optics were bad for No Deal. The media calling them out on it seems minimal though.

Absolutely beaming with sovereignty right now.

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EDIT I am assuming you are born German due to the user name and had to go through the whole process to, erm, be ultra sovereign.

Pineapples?

Passport sticker?

That gilt looks like it rubs off easily.

No metaphor there. Nope. Not at all.

See also the French motto cos historical reasons... :)

100% blighty I'm afraid, my wife is French though so as long as she doesn't do a runner in the next 3 years I can rejoin the club, then I'll have my sovereignty and eat it too!

Ah, the learn French, live in France route?

My partner is French, but we'd need to move there and I'd need to learn French to be able to naturalize.

Spain have just announced that British citizens with residency will get a new ID card to show a special third-country status, similar to the native DNI card. I'm hoping I can use it travel much like they can, so I don't have to use this shite.

https://www.ft.com/content/a611c7ae-8276-4e42-8e63-0b68e3b90f9f?fbclid=IwAR25TCxua4GgJX133v5jzfH3FErwovzlBAzJHMNMYV-3ek1EJT8-_lkC71g

TL:DR government doesn't know arse from elbow on settled status/EU immigrants, which isn't totally the ONS fault because the UK has no unified registration system.

Meanwhile, the amendment to the immigration bill to safeguard vulnerable people in care from missing the SS deadline was voted down.

It is a constant stream of salt in the wound Brexit has made with the government...

These people are just delusional:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/08/uk-nominates-liam-fox-world-trade-organization

Just. Wow