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  1. T.J. Crowder @[email protected] ·

    Me: It's wonderful to see the right's vote fractured for a change!

    Also me: OMG this is horrifying, people are actually saying they'll vote for the Reform party.

    yougov.co.uk/elections/uk/2024

    #uk_election

    #uk_election
  2. Mx Verda @[email protected] ·

    Anyone else up for some more #immigrant diaries?

    @ukgovcamp
    @FlipboardUK
    @ anyone else who might want a 'fun' story about how much I 'love' living here.

    I got an email.

    "Link your eVisa to your account"

    Following the initial process, you need to confirm your identity on the UK Immigration ID Check app.
    The app is not available on my iPad.
    The UK ID check (different app!) is not usable by UK Visas and Immigration.
    My /e/ OS phone is not accepted by the Immigration ID Check app because I modified it to have that OS.
    My partner's phone has the app, but the camera *refuses* to actually photograph my BRP.

    so I get the 'lol try again, idiot' error message.
    Except I have, and now I can't. (Even if I could and did, the camera in their app is the gd problem.)

    Aaaaaand I can't get a 'share code' from online because I started linking my eVISA whatever.

    So. The advice: is to share, with employers, etc:

    My plastic BRP photocard.

    The thing that share codes are supposed to replace.
    The thing that I need to get the share codes.

    The thing that the eVISA is supposed to replace (maybe??) next.
    That also requires it to link the account.

    #brexit #uk #GeneralElectionUK #election #conservatives #tories #benefits #vote #vote2024 #uk_election #british #BritishComedy #english #england #NaturalEngland #ImmigrantLife #immigration #border #borderControl

    #bureaucracy #disabled #HappyPrideMonth

    Oh yeah, did I mention I can't get a new BRP easily because my USA passport allows 'X' gender (yaaay!) and the UK computer systems don't?

    I had to call and ask wtf was going on months later.

    (The dude who answered was super apologetic and nice about it, but he shouldn't have had to apologise for a ridiculous system failure. There should always be an 'unknown / prefer not to answer / other' option on ANY question. Dare I say it? Should be the default value.)

    Still no idea what's going on with that.

    #immigrant #brexit #uk #generalelectionuk #election #conservatives
  3. T.J. Crowder @[email protected] ·

    ~2,500 billionaires have more wealth than 60% of the world's population combined,¹ but the Tories are like: "Wait! Look over there! Who's using what bathroom!"
    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kkvk
    oxfam.org/en/press-releases/wo

    ¹ Article is from 2020. It's only got worse since then.

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  4. T.J. Crowder @[email protected] ·

    If, like me, you're frustrated by Labour's official position on Brexit (it's done, we have to live with it), I have a strong feeling that's almost entirely tactical and the position will shift about a year after they're in government, if they win. Not toward a new referendum, but toward a much closer alignment with the EU, reducing trade and travel friction.

    #uk_election #brexit

    #uk_election #brexit
  5. T.J. Crowder @[email protected] ·

    #uk_election #brexit

    #uk_election #brexit