And in Northern Ireland we have this: Arlene Foster to step down as Northern Ireland first minister | Arlene Foster | The Guardian
Arlene Foster is in trouble for backing the Tories in the Brexit fights, leading to - how could anyone have foreseen this - massive compromises to the Unionist principles and the "border in the Irish Sea" because the UK wants a hard border with Europe and that border has to be somewhere.
There's also some suggestion that she wasn't sufficiently homophobic for the DUP as a whole, and possibly the electorate - although the actual opinions of the electorate maye not be nearly as strong, and this could be a pink herring.
Or, more about the fact that we have local elections across Britain today that are being widely seen as a test of Bozo and of Keir Starmer's leadership of Labour (the militant left still hate him) - and of Scottish independence opinion as well - in fact everything.
Brandishing a few guns worked for Margaret Thatcher.
It's all quotable, but I'll just go with this one:
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When one of Barnier’s 60-strong team explains to Britain’s new prime minister the need for customs and quality checks on the Irish border, Barnier writes, it was “my impression that he became aware, in that discussion, of a series of technical and legal issues that had not been so clearly explained to him by his own team”.
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Presumably this isn't going to happen to EU citizens arriving for holidays or to visit relatives or on actual business trips, but who knows.
I suppose the EU citizens trapped by this actually told border control "I'm coming for an interview" - which the article explains is explicitly allowed as long as you leave the country to apply for your work visa. I guess the moral is admit nothing.
I don’t know how ‘more tweets’ works, but I saw this and thought it was accurate.
One thing I’ve noticed from some of the Brexiters, especially older well off ones is a “Wouldn’t we feel prouder if we did it all ourselves without help? Yes, we would! That would be a real accomplishment!” attitude, while expecting the working class will bear the brunt while thanking them for it not being worse.
Based on some comments by comedian Henning Wehn, it occurs to me that the British right will achieve their goal of reducing the number of immigrants in Britain.
Wehn, a German who lives in London, says he doesn't feel like an immigrant. "Immigrants" are essentially people moving to a better country - if you move to / live in a worse country you are more an "ex-pat" (or ... a relief worker).
So ... UK policies are basically converting immigrants into expats.
And the people we urgently need to pick our fruit and drive our HGVs won't be immigrants, they'll be relief workers.
Yeah I first read that as all letters will be delivered like in Hogwarts by hooting owls. Then I realised probably letters of the alphabet.
*stares in Finnish*
*especially at French*
(This isn't a direct result of Brexit, rather of the years and years of underfunding and neglectful mismanagement ... so pretty much indistinguishable from Brexit.)
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The US had by far the worst-rated system, despite spending the most on care.
Oh no. What an expected un-shock.
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In addition, just 33% of patients said that they got counselling or treatment for mental health problems when they sought help from a specialist in psychological or psychiatric illness – a new indicator that the thinktank had not previously analysed. The NHS was the second worst performer of the 11 countries on that criterion, just ahead of France.
We may be nutters who can't get treatment but at least we're better than the French.
A "very likely" collapse would be characterised by the disintegration of supply chains, international agreements and global financial structures, according to researchers at the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University.
I suppose the UK's well placed to survive a collapse of civilisation because it's already made a significant head start in these matters.
We don't need no bloody supply chains or international agreements!
(This isn't a direct result of Brexit, rather of the years and years of underfunding and neglectful mismanagement ... so pretty much indistinguishable from Brexit.)
Yeah but now the NHS is getting that £350m week, like the bus said