I don't know if any of that is true*, but the thread keeps on giving. Here is the original post in case you want to keep following along.
Just had conversation with a British couple who have a holiday home near us. They voted for Brexit and have made no arrangements whatsoever for what happens on Jan 1. They have now discovered the reality of their situation.
* the part about a British couple voting for Brexit and then being SHOCKED they will no longer be able to easily retire where-ever-the-fuck-they-bloody-well-want sounds all to believable. Not sure about the stuff with the son. I know a guy here whose business is providing foreign farm workers to companies for picking veggies/flowers/etc. He voted Brexit and it could literally ruin his business. But he's SURE the government wouldn't let that happen, it will all work out. My god there are some fucking dumb people here.
I have spoken to our Mayor's wife (Mayor is out having lunch). She says after knowing him for thirty years he could be probably be corrupted if a date with Vanessa Paradis could be delivered as part of the deal.
The Mayor is with us here, he has dropped in for a small apéro. It seems the entire Mayor's office is now following this. He has no idea how they are all going to keep straight faces when 'you know who' turns up on Friday. One lady has switched her day off to be there.
The best fiction is entirely plausible. It holds up a mirror to reality. In this case, possibly a rather dirty, cracked, WOT YOU LOOKIN AT MATE mirror, but still plausible.
You will rarely see a select committee chairman spring a trap during questioning quite so smoothly as Greg Clark did with Huawei bosses this morning pic.twitter.com/7jdBvGC6w0
Over the last few days the father, since reunited with Idiot Son (he may or may not be happy about that) has been pursuing a tactic of trying to persuade various institutions to allow him an exemption from Brexit. He started with the EU and felt I should know.
Since there've been no exams due to pandemics, schools have predicted grades based on coursewrok, assessments, and mock exams. So far so good.
Then Ofqual - a body which is now more than likely to be disbanded and replaced by a new body run by a chum of the government (*cough* Public Health England *cough*) re-graded these predictions - downgrading at least 40%, with more severe effects for underprivileged areas. (I saw in a meme, so I know it's true, that 0 predictions at Eton were downgraded.)
Massive uproar. Scotland cancelled the whole thing quite swiftly; England did nothing for a bit then said students could appeal; then backtracked completely.
An 18-year-old student who predicted this year’s A-level results crisis in an award-winning dystopian story about an algorithm deciding school grades according to social class, has had her own results downgraded.
“I’ve fallen into my story. It’s crazy,” said Jessica Johnson, a student at Ashton Sixth Form College in Greater Manchester. “I based it on the educational inequality I already saw. I just exaggerated that inequality and added the algorithm. But I really didn’t think it would come true as quick as it did!”
Johnson won an Orwell youth prize senior award in 2019 for her short story titled A Band Apart, which was the first one she had written. Set in 2029, it imagined a system where students were sorted into bands based on their background. “Mum still thinks I can be a doctor. She doesn’t understand how hard it is to get into Band 1 for people like us,” says a character in the story.
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