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Aspiring lawyer. London. Foreign born 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 🇧🇪 🇪🇺

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NG @ng1978.bsky.social · Aug 29

Changing my name for now as I’m applying for jobs so need to keep a low online profile.

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 11h

She’s running

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 14h

Then again, isn’t that the threshold for ‘automatic’ deportation?

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 17h

Wondering how many British people would satisfy this requirement.

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 19h

Deporting pro-Palestinian protesters who haven’t broken any laws while criticising our restrictions on protests outside abortion clinics.

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 19h

Uninsured? I knew about MOT and tax but not about insurance.

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 20h

Or a quarter pint. Or one and a half cigarettes. Don’t quote me on the latter. I quit over 20 years ago so had to look up the price on Google.

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 20h

Of course, last doesn’t necessarily mean final

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 22h

I suspect I would have been accused of ghosting by lots of people as I probably would have lost the scrap of paper I wrote their number on.

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 23h

A couple of things made it slightly easier.

1. If it was local or you knew the area code, you typically only had to remember 5/6 digits unlike the 11 that a mobile number is
2. If you called it frequently l, having to dial or key in the number helped reinforce it in your memory.

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NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 1d

LeGitImATe CoNCeRns

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 1d

Just realised that if you took the argument about working and paying taxes to its logical conclusion you’d disenfranchise unemployed people, stay at home parents and pensioners

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NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 1d

Such as visitors/non-citizens pay taxes. As do minors, eg VAT, and potentially inheritance tax. I still think lowering it seems against the tide of emotional maturity being something that is happening at a later age

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NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 1d

I think a lot of European countries with ID cards technically require non-citizens/residents to have some form of ID. Maybe a photo driving licence would suffice? But as you say it’s not really enforced and carrying your passport with you seems like too much of a risk of it getting lost or stolen.

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 1d

Given how probationary periods are typically six months, two years does seem rather in excess of what an employer would need in order to know if things are working out or not.

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 1d

Something that people thinking of visiting America might want to bear in mind. Bit of a pain to have to carry your passport with you and risk it getting lost or stolen though.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

"Under federal law, registered foreign nationals must carry proof of registration with them at all times. But prior to a second Trump administration, it was rarely enforced." www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

(e) PERSONAL POSSESSION OF REGISTRATION OR RECEIPT CARD; PENALTIES
Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him pursuant to subsection (d). Any alien who fails to comply with the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction for each offense be fined not to exceed $100 or be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 1d

Be interested to know how many more overseas students they have whose parents aren’t voters so the schools made themselves politically less relevant.

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 1d

I prefer not ti carry my passport at all times if m visiting. Too much chance of it getting lost.

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NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 2d

Yes the Tories civil war over Europe wouldn’t have gone away. Unless Cameron took advantage of the opportunity to purge them which seems unlikely. But demographic churn would probably have worked against any future Leave campaign.

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think it would have happened as soon as that and other geopolitical events (Ukraine) would have made it seem rather more unwise

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 2d

I can just see JRM saying that a close vote to Remain was not an overwhelming endorsement

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NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 2d

I think that may be right. I suspect there would have been a ‘one more heave’ mentality. I remember a leading article in the Spectator when it looked like Leave would lose saying battle to take UK out would go on

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 2d

As well as delayed speech and appearing not to ‘understand’ what was being said to me

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 2d

I came across this letter from a paediatrician from a time in my life tgat I don’t really remember that commented on how noticeable my echolalia was 🤔

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NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 2d

And of course there is an argument that austerity itself played a role in the vote to leave. Once again, usual difficulties with counterfactuals.

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 2d

What do you think the counterfactual would be if we’d stayed in the EU? And yes I know these hypotheticals are inherently difficult so not a trick question!