Brexit is going wonderfully as shown by these examples

[Psamathe]

In this instance I was thinking more the “ancillary” results of obtaining residency, eg taxation, social contributions, inheritance, etc

(Somewhat more off-topic) When I lived in France I paid an accountant to do my tax return, not because I was in the league of high income but things were slightly more complex in that I lived full time in France yet was working for my UK employer (their choice not mine, illegal under French Regs and accountant kept reminding me he was obliged to report it to the French Authorities ... "so get it regularised and soon"). But if your tax is straightforward the Trésor public are very helpful, go in with your numbers and they'll sort out what numbers go in what boxes for you. That includes Social Contributions. Registering for health (CPAM back in those days) was a lesson in how to manage through French bureaucracy (took me two attempts), easier these days as it's private health insurance for at least 4 years. Inheritance in France is part of Napoleonic code so whatever you write in a will, rules will override under many situations.

But that's just France and getting French residency doesn't give you rights to travel around other Schengen countries beyond the 90/180 (as I understand it). So eg going into Belgium legally could be difficult as no border posts (one year cycling up from NE France morning heading out from Lille I crossed the French/Belgian border 8 times before lunch.

Ian

 

[lazybloke]

An unpleasant taste in my mouth after seeing a gbnews story, quoting Boris as saying 'we need a government that believes in Brexit'.

Exactly how hard must we believe?
Hard enough, according to my memory of an analysis earlier, to pretend there isn't a £100 billion dent, a 30% reduction in exports!

 

[Psamathe]

An unpleasant taste in my mouth after seeing a gbnews story, quoting Boris as saying 'we need a government that believes in Brexit'.

Exactly how hard must we believe?
Hard enough, according to my memory of an analysis earlier, to pretend there isn't a £100 billion dent, a 30% reduction in exports!

My interpretation of your quoted comment from Johnson is that he's trying to deflect blame for the disaster away from himself. To me he's saying the how the pretty well established disaster is not his fault but rather the fault of a Government less capable than his own.

I doubt he actually believes it, doubt he's even thought about it, just wants to deflect blame and defend his reputation (ooops ... too late).

Ian

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

My interpretation of your quoted comment from Johnson is that he's trying to deflect blame for the disaster away from himself. To me he's saying the how the pretty well established disaster is not his fault but rather the fault of a Government less capable than his own.

I doubt he actually believes it, doubt he's even thought about it, just wants to deflect blame and defend his reputation (ooops ... too late).

Ian

Basically - if he was not kicked out and could carry on being brilliant until he had worked his wonderful scheme through to the end - and the rest of the party had properly supported him - then we would now be forging forward as one of the leading countries in the World

Well - fair enough - its either that or he made a total **** up of the whole thing - from the campaign onwards - and screwed the country
And we can;t have people think that!!!

 

[presta]

View: https://x.com/implausibleblog/status/1899466903036305912

 

[icowden]

View: https://x.com/implausibleblog/status/1899466903036305912

Or to put in another way, there is a nice entry in Private Eye this week:

NEW EUROPEAN COALITION LATEST
Buoyed by his success in bringing Europe together to defend Ukraine against Donald Trump (surely Vladamir Putin? Ed) Sir Keir Starmer has outlined his further plans for the next step to build on the new mood of solidarity.
Describing a sort of union of European States Starmer said "While this will be military at first, it could extend to trade and the free movement of people. And who knows, we could even have a single European currency."
Starmer added that the administrative base for such a pan-European venture would have to be a central location such as Brussels, and we could standardise goods and services across this European Union.
Europeans welcomed Starmer's proposal and added, "We could even have a song contest, which would unite nations in humiliating Britain by giving them nul points."