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Rachel Gooch @cambridgerach.bsky.social · 21h

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Rachel Gooch @cambridgerach.bsky.social · 21h

I have B2 German and it is not good enough to get skilled work in Germany (even though theoretisch it should be).

Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 21h

It’s mostly the gvmnt’s fault over their choice of words, but no, ministers are not (despite what much of BlueSky thinks) requiring migrants to have an English A-level. They are requiring B2 level English skills, which is what you have in French if you have A-level French. www.gov.uk/government/n...

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

Rachel Gooch @cambridgerach.bsky.social · 1d

The perfect time to wake the ward and get three hours doze before observations start. Hope the rest of the day is better.

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Jack Aidley @jackaidley.bsky.social · 1d

I do wonder how people with such clearly inflexible and heartfelt views as Corbyn and Sultana could ever believe that outsourcing all the policy positions they're going to advocate for to other people is ever going to work.

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Susanne Baumann @germanambuk.bsky.social · 2d

His Majesty King Charles III has announced that he will host German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife Elke Büdenbender for a State Visit from 3-5 December. It will be an incredible moment for 🇬🇧🇩🇪 relations and the first State Visit by a German President in 27 years.

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 4d

Funeral laws in Germany have long been a model of order and control. But one state’s reform could change the way the nation mourns

✏️ Tanit Koch

Is this the death knell for Germany’s rigid funeral laws?

Funeral laws in Germany have long been a model of order and control. But one state’s reform could change the way the nation mourns

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 6d

They have, *genuinely*, no thoughts whatsoever about maybe why the civil service increased dramatically in size during and after Brexit? Nothing occurring to them? Just the loose purse-strings and reckless state spending overindulgence of the Conservative Governments of the 2010s?

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Rachel Gooch @cambridgerach.bsky.social · 6d

I feel this is the point where I drop all understanding of SYW. Whatever her own issues, at the point where she knew about your daughter's disability and how she'd made you feel, she should have apologised.

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Rachel Gooch @cambridgerach.bsky.social · 6d

I'm tending that way. She wrote such a good analysis of the 2017 election and I thought she'd make a great education sec, though has not shone in the role so far.

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Rachel Gooch @cambridgerach.bsky.social · 7d

Does it matter who I vote for in the Deputy Leader election 🤷?

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 7d

The Conservatives have pledged they will increase the number of deportations to 150k/year

- while significantly reducing the size of the civil service
- without increasing government spending and taxation.
- and opposing mandatory identification.

migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/co...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 7d

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Rachel Gooch @cambridgerach.bsky.social · 7d

Sadly doesn't surprise me. It has changed quite a lot in those 10 years - never imagined Green Party would be so successful - but racism and ignorance is still there.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 7d

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

www.thetimes.com

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Rachel Gooch @cambridgerach.bsky.social · 8d

He doesn't want areas where there is a 'preponderance' of one race over another. My kids school in rural Suffolk had one black family in a school of 1200 pupils. But that's not what he means, is it?

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 8d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 9d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Rachel Gooch @cambridgerach.bsky.social · 10d

The rhetoric rots those roots; ILR and citizenship nourish them. The NHS and other sectors are held together by 'foreign' workers and we'll all suffer if they are driven away to more welcoming places.

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Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social · 10d

Tbh, the whole anti-migrant rhetoric is already making my friends on ILR look at moving.

Of course, they’re all the ones with the money and talent *to* move. Which isn’t what politicians are selling as the consequence of ILR-bashing. But it’s what will happen.

James Bowes @jamesbowes01.bsky.social · 10d

The 10 year wait for Indefinite Leave to Remain will make the UK very unattractive for high skilled workers who often have alternatives. 2019 data (excluding the NHS and universities) shows that high skilled workers on visas are heavily concentrated in multinationals who can move jobs abroad (5/x)

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Reuters @reuters.com · 11d

Frankfurt like a local reut.rs/3KxkbW8

Frankfurt like a local

Our bureau chief’s guide to apple wine, riverside strolls and skyline views.

reut.rs

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Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social · 11d

Absolutely astonished @hignfy.bsky.social just stated that Multiverse will be running the government's digital ID scheme

An incredibly basic failure of fact-checking

fullfact.org/technology/d...

Has Euan Blair’s company Multiverse been chosen to run the government’s new digital ID scheme? – Full Fact

Multiverse is an “upskilling company”, not a software developer, and both it and the government say there’s no truth to viral claims linking it to the scheme.

fullfact.org

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Rachel Gooch @cambridgerach.bsky.social · 12d

Asking you to give it a rest for a weekend while so many are preoccupied with grief and fear is not an infringement of your human rights, it is actually an appeal to your humanity. Be kind.

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Susanne Baumann @germanambuk.bsky.social · 12d

35 years ago, Germany received its greatest gift: reunification – less than a year after the Berlin Wall fell.

Thanks to the unshakeable will of East German people and our allies' support, Germany and Europe changed for the better.

Today is a day of joy, recollection and encouragement.

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Sophie Petzal @sonicscrewup.bsky.social · 12d

Hey scumbags, Jews in Manchester have fuck all to do with Palestine or Israel. Commenting beneath news stories about dead British Jews with 'what about Palestinians?' is just fucking antisemitic bullshit. If you think Jews are your enemy, you are the enemy.

Jews are not Israel.

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Rachel Gooch @cambridgerach.bsky.social · 14d

Yesterday, confirmed twice no urgent problem before choosing specifically to discuss blood test. 2 hours later, talked to GP, got the report of Friday's MRI, been referred to orthopod and got an appointment with the GP's physio for next week. BMA is making a silly fuss
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Every GP practice must now offer online booking

Move comes despite opposition from union, with ministers saying NHS needs to embrace digital tech.

www.bbc.co.uk

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