Sack all the politicians, they seem to inherently fail at their job: representing the people that voted for them. Instead, we should vote directly ourselves on anything an MP/MEP would vote on.

Privatise the profits, socialise the losses.

The fediverse is so gay.

Literally take a dog for a walk up a mountain, it gets tired, “oh wait it must be someone who left a big bag of weed and my dog gobbled it up when I wasn’t looking”.

Actually wait, this article is complete bullshit.

Bluhme said Tokyo had made a full recovery after the incident during a trip to Scotland last weekend. She said vets believe she ingested cannabis left on the trail.

The vets made a guess, their best guess based on very limited information.

TIL Apparently dogs can get a severe reaction to THC from eating poop of someone who had digested cannabis.

Okay that’s a few steps beyond “discarded”.

For us, it was not a non-issue and is unnecessary red-tape, and I have a feeling it is only done to artificially keep some migration figures down.

Whatever. Done now. /rant

I’ve no disagreement with any of this. And I don’t have any intention of discrediting the sentiment that the UK government implemented this too brashly and without sufficient communication (and perhaps especially a specific grace period).

However surely the writing has been on the walls for 10 years now? Why did she not get a UK passport before then? Was the blue passport so offensive? I could actually sympathise there… I already had a blue passport and I’m clinging to my red one until it expires.

Wish I had green, purple, or black. Gotta collect them all.

I think the inflection point is around Bristol.

They take the piss out of you for not sounding proper, after dallywagging doun souff.

Hang on, when did we stop being able to mock gingers?!?!

You can legally discriminate against someone for being ginger, last I knew.

Depends how long you’re away. She was in school, so presumably went away for Easter in April.

The new rule was introduced in February, well before she went away. She (or her parents) should have known she wouldn’t be able to get back.

However it still stands that the government did not communicate this change very well. But I feel like the government departments are getting too much of the blame for this - it’s a bad policy with poor guidelines for implementation, and that isn’t the fault of the civil servants who are tasked with implementing it.

She would’ve been 6 when the referendum happened lol

But also it’s kind of a non-issue. You should have a British passport if you are a Brit travelling abroad.

Because that way you go through the short queue in immigration at both ends.

And this is exactly the kind of reason for the change. Wealth tax out, Palantir in, the people who fund the political parties are happy.

Investigators are considering whether leftwing, anarchist and single-issue terrorism (LASIT) played a role

It honestly feels like leftwing is just thrown in there to stop officers sniggering every time they say the acronym.

No, he absolutely still could. Whether he will be is another matter, he’s got extremely wealthy backers.

Hence why Starmer threw in the towel over nothing. The UK isn’t really run by the elected politicians, it’s run by the people who fund the party LLCs.

The camel’s back was not broken, though. What happened was the media flogged a dead horse, and told everyone it was a camel.

This article says the fleet is 4.2GW, so I guess they’re working on a home needing about 500W to get 8 million.

Better not lose then.

“Billionaire to put his money forward for extremely profitable venture that everyone pays for”