Tag: brexit

An unfortunately good thread I saw earlier from @IsolatedBrit.

Another format, (via @Keithmickwaves): Unrolled thread from @IsolatedBrit #EURef #Brexit

Not posting the whole thing here as not very accessible screenshots, because it’s fairly long, but it’s well worth clicking through. So are some of the replies.

Some pretty disturbing stuff, but that’s how things have been going here. And this person is British. Nobody in our house is.

I never felt particularly welcome as a non-white non-EU person, but the atmosphere has deteriorated over the past few years to the point that my Scandinavian partner has been wanting out for a while now. After 15+ years, previously planning to take British citizenship and stay indefinitely. I was just about willing to stay.

Not anymore, and we’re far from the only ones. There’s been a lot of direct scapegoating of Eastern Europeans alongside the usual Scary Brown People, to make things that much better for @IsolatedBrit’s partner. But, it’s really not a great environment for pretty much anyone who is not White British these days. And I’m definitely not imagining it.

oh-glasgow:

ayeforscotland:

ayeforscotland:

ayeforscotland:

In the space of a year the Foreign and Commonwealth Office loses 40% of its budget!?

That doesn’t sound like a UK that’s going to be able to project its voice around the world and secure trade deals after Brexit.

Very bizarre move. If I believed in the UK as an institution, this is not what I’d want to be seeing.

This is also quite worrying from a safety and protection of citizens abroad standpoint. As EU citizens we can utilise any EU member state embassy for assistance while abroad.

With Brexit UK, you can’t use EU countries’ embassy service and you’re also going to have reduced services due to FCO cuts.

Just astonishing.

This will also impact visas. The UK still doesn’t have an electronic visa system. Reduced staff will mean slower visa processing times so will result in massive backlog or reduced tourism.

Can’t complain about Johnny Foreigner coming here if you slash the FCO budget, am I right?!

Who would have thought “take control of our borders” actually meant “we don’t give a fuck about our citizens abroad and we don’t give a fuck about people coming here either so we’re going to do our best to make the UK a nightmare to deal with and discourse any form of migration”..?

Source: ayeforscotland

On outsiders, the EU and Brexit anxiety – Mark Brown

clatterbane:

Brexit laid bare a deeply illiberal seam of british attitudes. The tone of debate after the UK cast its vote to detach from the rest of EU has not been pretty or comforting for those whom it affects deeply. Oddly belligerent victors have met peacocking triumphalism in a tide of ‘just suck it in, losers’. Those who do not get behind the programme are ‘remoaners’; told to get over it as ‘the people have spoken’.

Six months on Alexa is still experiencing period of intense anxiety where her heart pounds and the world is overwhelming. She is now exploring plans to move to another european country. Alexa feels she can’t talk to the people she works with about her worries. “I was having a conversation with a colleague and my boss turned around and said: “you’re giving me indigestion”. When your boss says something like that you shut up. I feel now I can’t really talk about it at work because because the English people I work with don’t really see why I feel this way.”…

Alexa has been shocked at the way anti-immigrant sentiment has seeped into everyday use; “A colleague was talking about how eastern European immigrants bring in diseases. I think she’s read it on Facebook. I never heard her say anything like that before but it’s become normal.”…

Most people will just ignore the unfolding Brexit story and get on with everyday life. They have the privilege of knowing their place is secure. Those who do not have that luxury will experience the situation differently. If attitudes to people identified as foreign continue to harden, it’s unlikely the anxieties expressed by the children identified as different will reduce. Being trapped in a situation that causes you harm and which you cannot leave causes trauma. And if you belong to a minority, the one thing you can’t do is leave your own skin.

On outsiders, the EU and Brexit anxiety – Mark Brown

Brexit: UK Tories propose changing thousands of laws in secret, without Parliamentary oversight

mostlysignssomeportents:

Much of the UK’s system of laws and “unwritten constitution” derives from EU law, so with Brexit inexorably advancing, the UK has to pass a whole raft of parallel legislation that will replace the EU laws with UK versions, lest there be a “legal black hole” the day after Brexit.

But it’s not as simple as crossing out “EU” and inserting “UK” in existing legislation. The “Great Repeal Bill” is the largest piece of legislation ever put before Parliament, which has to not only translate the rules into UK legislation – it also has to set out which UK (not EU) institutions are in charge of enforcing those rules and what enforcement powers they’ll have.

There’s no time to make such a piece of legislation complete (at least, not according to Theresa May and her government). Instead, the government plans to rely on “Henry VIII clauses” that allow minister to just make up laws, without getting them voted in by Parliament. In effect, the Tories are asking Parliament to write them a blank cheque whose details they can fill in later.

At stake are “a mindboggling array of laws, from human rights and environmental protections through to financial regulation and consumer law.”

https://boingboing.net/2017/09/08/blank-cheque-for-t-may.html