Reasons to be unpleasant
Mar. 29th, 2018 07:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smokingbootIt's been a while since I posted on this matter, in an attempt to stay sanguine. I have quite a few brexit-supporting friends, and they get understandably defensive about the whole thing. I, on the other hand, get understandably aggressive, and make no apology for it: Here's part of the reason why: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/29/eu-parents-warned-children-need-papers-to-stay-in-uk-after-brexit
My little niece was born in mid-november in Saint Thomas' hospital just opposite to the Houses of Parliament, on the other side of the river. Her parents are EU citizens, but hadn't been here the full 5 years to grant them permanent residency. So all this crap about her needing to register as a British citizen costing more than £1000 is very likely, in order to 'avoid hostile environments.' A grand is not the end of the world, but who knows if it will be enough by then? And why should the country of her birth be hostile to her in any way whatsoever?
Another absurd thing from the article: "People who spend more than six months of the year out of the country through their work, such as those in the forces, will not as it stands be eligible for the new permanent status." Now there's a supreme form of idiocy.
Some of my friends supported this farce in the hope that after swinging so far right the political pendulum would then swing as far in the opposite direction, and see this as the rise of the make it all good left, Momentum and all that. Others, well god alone knows, nor can they define it to me. Many have a huge desire to be polite and not antagonise, probably in case some harpy (aka me) blisters their stupid racist-enabling ears into oblivion. They don't want to risk our friendship, just my family, an interesting balance that can only be preserved by well meaning silence.
Enough. I must try to jolly myself up to face today's work. Tolerance, patience and all that. F*ck em.
My little niece was born in mid-november in Saint Thomas' hospital just opposite to the Houses of Parliament, on the other side of the river. Her parents are EU citizens, but hadn't been here the full 5 years to grant them permanent residency. So all this crap about her needing to register as a British citizen costing more than £1000 is very likely, in order to 'avoid hostile environments.' A grand is not the end of the world, but who knows if it will be enough by then? And why should the country of her birth be hostile to her in any way whatsoever?
Another absurd thing from the article: "People who spend more than six months of the year out of the country through their work, such as those in the forces, will not as it stands be eligible for the new permanent status." Now there's a supreme form of idiocy.
Some of my friends supported this farce in the hope that after swinging so far right the political pendulum would then swing as far in the opposite direction, and see this as the rise of the make it all good left, Momentum and all that. Others, well god alone knows, nor can they define it to me. Many have a huge desire to be polite and not antagonise, probably in case some harpy (aka me) blisters their stupid racist-enabling ears into oblivion. They don't want to risk our friendship, just my family, an interesting balance that can only be preserved by well meaning silence.
Enough. I must try to jolly myself up to face today's work. Tolerance, patience and all that. F*ck em.
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