EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

Everyone is having a pop at Boris today

Tx.

You may like global inequality from Milan Brankovitz he goes into deep detail on the economic picture that the kippers / labour / cons etc. exploited.

thanks - had a look at some slides for a talk he gave at LSE and it looks v interesting, so have ordered the book

National trust need a million pounds or 200 euros or something, if not the white cliffs of dover will be turned into a giant carrefour sign. It's a read between the lines sort of thing.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/white-cliffs-of-dover-could-be-sold-if-national-trust-cannot-raise-1m-in-three-weeks-a3626451.html

Ress-Mogg is on manoeuvres and has the backing of 'Activate' (the Tory Momentum)

(I kinda assume this is a parody...)

thats what people thought about trump.

A sad state of affairs

thing is, they're not wrong about may, and Rees Mogg being top dog tory can only be a good thing for labour.

Some anti-fascist activists/protestors

(A reunion of people who worked at Bletchley Park)

I suspect the absence of Sovereignty,
the decision to support JR-M being taken by the 'leadership and regional reps',
is entirely without irony.
What a quaint concept, 'one member, one vote' is.
Still it did lead to the, with hindsight, predictably inept Tory leadership of ids,
so you can kind of understand why the Tories would deny the local membership a vote on anything important.
I mean you, (the Tories), wouldn't trust the electorate with anything important like a referendum, would they.

I can relate to that feeling.

You keep the legal (work, or being self-sufficient with stricter rules on criminal offenses than the UK people, as you can get deported on these) contract, you keep the social contract (speaking the language, hanging out with people, doing your bit, trying to be a good citizen) and voila: You have lost in a game you haven't even played.

in other photographs of letters columns in regional newspapers news

Apologies if this is a repost..

https://www.facebook.com/JonathanPieReporter/videos/1321404354649121/

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/05/leaked-document-reveals-uk-brexit-plan-to-deter-eu-immigrants

You couldn't get a wafer thin mint between this shower of Tory bastards and those racist fucks in UKIP.

JRM is being pushed by the same online entities that brought you Brexit and Trump. Just a coincidence.

There is no step change in the spectrum from John Major's b4st4rds and UKIP.

See also the interchangeability of MEPs between Tory & Ukip,
and
indeed some of the local constituency memberships during the Ukip local Councillor heyday.

I have yet to see any figures for how many of the Tory intake of MPs in 2015 & '17 are hard core brexiteers,
but,
I thought the assumption of the 'May-100 seat majority' was to allow the Tories kippy extremity to be ignored/overruled as the soft brexit compromise is agreed.

Labour and their talk of "visas for Barista's /ending freedom of movement is also not exactly impressing me.

Of course I expect better of them...Tory fuckery is less of a disappointment :)

All this despite (compared to UK average) EU workers being younger / better educated / adding 1.8 billion to the tax pot.

So it's already "better" for the UK...unless I missed something.

Impressively honest byline

^ Ha!

https://twitter.com/tony_nog/status/905350616750415872?fref=gc&dti=1643671489283891

Twitter thread on how the UK argues with itself, instead of trying to get a good position to put to the EU negotiation team.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41172505

Businesses are not exactly impressed by the leaked brexit plan.

The big problem for EU nationals like me that are here is that they can retroactively change the rules. They have already done so for USA immigrants.

And giving people 2-5 years to stay? Permanent residence can only be acquired after 5 full years...

Bizarre why would anyone come here?

My guess is various funds are making big bets that are politically sensitive. And big funds don't make big bets unless they can make sure they win.

It's a good job they didn't try to interview JWestland for this, or the levels of disgust wouldn't have been fit to print. :) :| :(

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/sep/06/eu-citizens-in-disbelief-over-uks-leaked-brexit-proposals

Oi, I was very polite when interviewed for local TV for the "one day without us" migrant day ;)

Joking aside, I am not surprised by this. May has always had a chip on her shoulder about immigration, now she can try do "limit" it, at any cost.

What is worrying is that some people are already being denied rental places and jobs, as companies/landlords are given the burden of doing the HO work for it.

This "british jobs for british" people attitude has the potential to really harm people that have been here for ages. Lose your job? Oh, sorry we get a UK citizen first. Oh, you have no work? Well, who guarantees the settled status promises will be upheld, nobody.

The immigrants from outside the EU have already been done by the government with visa rules (companies only...so if you lose your job then what?) and pay rules (35K for USA citizens) so I am expecting more exploitation and misery.

Edit thanks for posting this...

You are not worried yourself? You are German I believe :)
Or German/British? Then May has no grip on you.