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Laurence Rowe @laurencerowe.bsky.social · 17h

I mean the Labour Party already plan to up the married a foreigner fine from £13k to £21k so clear the purportedly centre-left don’t give a shit about Britons abroad either. Feels like we’re just an easy way to ‘improve’ the net immigration figures by making sure we can never come back home.

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Laurence Rowe @laurencerowe.bsky.social · 18h

Completely. Even my Labour MP (later suspended for his racist and sexist comments) thought the fees absurd. I guess even being suspended from the Labour Party for racism doesn’t make you xenophobic enough for the Home Office.

Laurence Rowe @laurencerowe.bsky.social · 18h

My partner and our kid can claim Mexican citizenship through descent and there is a 2 year residence to citizenship path in Spain for iberoamericans. An option we’ve looked into. Flights often cheaper back to UK than trains in UK… But non-remote work options limited.

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Laurence Rowe @laurencerowe.bsky.social · 23h

I strongly recommend Le Bureau des légendes too

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Laurence Rowe @laurencerowe.bsky.social · 1d

That looks very much like a store front but what's the line between a purchase requiring VAT and receiving merchandise in return for a donation over a minimum amount? I donated for some nice vintage Labour poster tea towels a few years ago.

Laurence Rowe @laurencerowe.bsky.social · 1d

Labour are presumably still working out whether they can one up the cruelty somehow. Their white paper already plans to increase the married a foreigner fine from £13k to £21k by extending the residence requirement for ILR from 5 to 10 years.

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Laurence Rowe @laurencerowe.bsky.social · 1d

Th makes sense I just wonder why the diesel hybrid buses can’t have poles on top too.

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Laurence Rowe @laurencerowe.bsky.social · 1d

Routes seem to be all or nothing so maybe half of the buses down mission st use diesel despite the wires being there.

Laurence Rowe @laurencerowe.bsky.social · 1d

The big benefit of electric buses is less pollution at street level rather than reduced CO2. It’s really nice that we have so many trolley buses here in SF but I do wonder why we can’t have mixed mode ones so when they drive under the wires (like in the article picture!) they can’t use the wires.

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Susie Cagle @suze.bsky.social · 1d

Just before the judge arrives at immigration court, attorney Diana Mariscal prepares the dozen migrants for their hearings. She explains in Spanish that there’s a chance ICE will detain them today. But what comes next surprises them all.

New longread from Jesse Alejandro Cottrell @sfstandard.com:

The pro bono attorneys performing miracles at immigration court

Just before the judge arrives at immigration court, attorney Diana Mariscal prepares the dozen migrants for their hearings. She explains in Spanish that there’s a chance ICE will detain them today. Bu...

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Laurence Rowe @laurencerowe.bsky.social · 1d

Having lived in both rich and equal countries (Norway) and rich and pretty unequal countries (US) it seems pretty clear that inequality has a big impact on quality of life for most.

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Laurence Rowe @laurencerowe.bsky.social · 1d

Do you have a sense of why rooftop solar seems to have ended up about 3x more expensive in California than in Australia where labour costs would suggest it should be much more similar?

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Laurence Rowe @laurencerowe.bsky.social · 2d

Agree employment rate should be more comparable, though might expect southern Germany to have fewer very low intensity work households.
Maybe it is an artefact from people living in smaller households in Germany?

https://preview.redd.it/regional-employment-rate-in-europe-v0-rmh2k7yyfewb1.jpg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=f53190512f455f8f8560c2a4b161bc1051deb23e

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Laurence Rowe @laurencerowe.bsky.social · 2d

The constituent factors seem to be these. So it looks like Central Europe does so well because so few households have low work intensity.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/rbm786/severe_material_deprivation_in_europe_2019/

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Living_conditions_in_Europe_-_work_intensity

https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/information-sources/maps/population-risk-poverty_en

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Laurence Rowe @laurencerowe.bsky.social · 2d

It counts those that fall under any of three alternative definitions. Of poverty (relative income, inability to afford basics, out of work.)
Maybe Switzerland has lots of rich people who don’t work very much but aren’t retired?

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Laurence Rowe @laurencerowe.bsky.social · 2d

That factor seems to be “below the at-risk-of-poverty threshold, which is set at 60% of the national median equivalised disposable income after social transfers.” So high minimum wage should not change threshold.

ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sta...

EU statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC) methodology - Europe 2020 target on poverty and social exclusion

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Laurence Rowe @laurencerowe.bsky.social · 2d

According to their web tool a foreign passport would suffice for travelling from Belfast since “you do not need a visa to travel within the UK.”

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Laurence Rowe @laurencerowe.bsky.social · 2d

A drivers license is sufficient for flying Belfast to GB and is listed as an acceptable form of ID for flying from RoI but “you should carry proof of citizenship in case you are asked for it. You could be denied travel if you cannot provide this.”
www.aerlingus.com/prepare/pass...

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Laurence Rowe @laurencerowe.bsky.social · 2d

You’d presumably need some other form of UK/Irish ID like a drivers license to be allowed on the plane without an ETA.

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Laurence Rowe @laurencerowe.bsky.social · 2d

Seems they were in the wrong in that case though since the HoC Library paper I linked to recognises that the introduction of ETAs is a change for dual citizens who were previously able to enter on their foreign passport assuming it was for a country with visa free travel.

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Laurence Rowe @laurencerowe.bsky.social · 2d

But seems this would no longer work as I would be ineligible for an ETA as a British citizen.

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Laurence Rowe @laurencerowe.bsky.social · 2d

But maybe that has changed since then with the ETA (it was a year ago)

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Laurence Rowe @laurencerowe.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think this is accurate based on personal experience and checking before the trip where I gained that personal experience of entering the UK on a US passport. bsky.app/profile/laur...

Laurence Rowe @laurencerowe.bsky.social · 2d

I double checked it before I travelled and just used my US passport details for airline checkin. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

Can a British citizen travel to the UK using a non-British passport?

British dual nationals sometimes ask if they can use their foreign passport to come to the UK, for example, because they urgently need to travel and don’t have an up-to-date British passport.

commonslibrary.parliament.uk

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Laurence Rowe @laurencerowe.bsky.social · 2d

The immigration officer gave me a while spiel about how I would not not be able to claim benefits and such entering this way but was not interested in looking at my just expired UK passport.

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Laurence Rowe @laurencerowe.bsky.social · 2d

I double checked it before I travelled and just used my US passport details for airline checkin. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

Can a British citizen travel to the UK using a non-British passport?

British dual nationals sometimes ask if they can use their foreign passport to come to the UK, for example, because they urgently need to travel and don’t have an up-to-date British passport.

commonslibrary.parliament.uk

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