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Global Britain latest.
Three and a half thousand scientists, engineers, health and technology specialists from outside the EU were refused UK employment visas between December and March, as government immigration restrictions on skilled workers intensified.
Releasing the results of a Freedom of Information request to the Home Office, the Campaign for Science and Engineering said 6,080 applications from skilled overseas workers living outside the EU and wanting to take up UK jobs were refused visas over the four month period.
This was because a cap on the number of so-called tier 2 visas — granted by the Home Office based on a points system designed to measure qualifications — had been reached.
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Absolutely superb
https://twitter.com/mc_hankins/status/996453017737187330?s=19
Click through the thread
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Foster leaving the door open for the Customs Union?
https://amp.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/n...mpression=true
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It’s definitely a thing. Wiberforce is all over BBC type Britain’s Greatest shite, I’d imagine he’s a tedious glory praise assuage white guilt part of the school curriculum in England as well. Fuckin Denmark abolished it first. The slaves stayed slaves in the Colonies. Tonnes of even relatively modest means Scots has part shares in slaves well past abolition of the trade. Britain can fuck off.
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Latest proposal - CU alignment until 2023, the Border backstop would be "time-limited" - no dice, Theresa:
https://mobile.twitter.com/DarranMar...63206395170817
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I paraphrase somewhat:
Nigel Dodds at PMQs: "when will her majesty's government pay attention to us?"
PM May: "of course we will pay attention to the paddies in due course, now settle down and lets get back to talking about england"
Propping up a government that couldn't give a shit about them.
If they want to extract money and favours from government then it would be much better for them if they joined a true banana republic. Imagine how shiny and smooth the Dungannon motorway could be.Last edited by anton pulisov; 17-05-2018, 00:05.
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That was the thing that struck me as so funny about the DUP conservative deal. Everyone in the UK was so upset that the DUP got a whole billion pounds over five years, and the DUP were so proud. That's just such a pathetically small sum of money. That's about 0.01% of uk GDP a year. I mean fucking hell.
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FT saying BoJo is on board with this prolonged customs union plan, which is described as continuing to apply the common external tariff across the UK. No mention of what happens re regulatory alignment. Also not clear if this is time-limited (with time-limited backstop) as previously suggested.
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Meanwhile, the European Ombudsman has some things to say about the Council. I did think this was rather quaint though:“This hopefully will get us away of the blaming Brussels culture,” she added. “I don’t think any of us can imagine a minister in our own member states going on to a TV or radio station and being asked directly about a measure they were taking in domestic setting, and the minister replying ‘No I’m not telling you, I’m keeping it secret.’”
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May: UK to leave customs union in 2020, and have independent trade policy then. Will also publish "own fallback position" on Irish border:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...-politics-live
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FT now saying it's official. The "independent trade policy" seems to basically be a lie, if you believe the article.
Mrs May, speaking at an EU summit in Sofia, suggested that the UK would still be able to have its own “independent trade policy”, though it will be unable to negotiate different tariffs with countries that already have a deal with the EU.
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That's paywalled, but presumably this RTE article is broadly similar - Varadkar has gently nudged them towards CU alignment, and is now attempting the same with the Single Market:
https://www.rte.ie/amp/964206/?__twi...mpression=true
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I know Tubby hates Chakrabortty, but this is article succinctly nails it for me https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...yths-austerity
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- Mar 2008
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- The House with the Golden Windows
- Fast falling out of love for football.
- WasPlain Hobnobs
Owen Patterson "Rats < Brexit < Badgers"
Official: https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/05/...n-do-anything/
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For some time now I've suspected May would actually quite like to be voted out of power just so she doesn't have to deal with any more with this monumental mess. That she's just hanging in and going through the motions until her government or her personal tenure ends. Wouldn't solve the problem for anyone else in the country, of course.
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