Brexit: Now What? Part IV

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Tolls said:
When we got number 2 Tolls' passport we did the Check and Send thing at the PO, where they make sure you filled everything in correctly so it doesn't get rejected and delay the issuing. When we got the passport back they'd spelled his middle name wrong.

They really are useless.
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Yes, on my first passport (which wasn't until 1997) they managed to render by birth place of Kingston upon Hull as "Kington upon Hull."
 
Tolls said:
When we got number 2 Tolls' passport we did the Check and Send thing at the PO, where they make sure you filled everything in correctly so it doesn't get rejected and delay the issuing. When we got the passport back they'd spelled his middle name wrong.

They really are useless.
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That's an understatement.

Last year we were planning on moving to the UK. My wife is an Indian national, while me and the kids are Dutch nationals. So we had to apply for a visa for my wife.

As advertised on their website this process takes 2 weeks. It in the end took them 5 months to reach a decision.

During this time I actually went with the kids to the UK, got them enrolled in school, had a job waiting to start when my wife arrived. But as anybody would understand, a potential employer isn't going to wait forever and they in the end had to look for someone else. Packed up the kids, moved back to India.

Then sent a cancellation letter to the UK embassy.... and they sent back her passport with a visa.
 
Amazer said:
That's an understatement.

Last year we were planning on moving to the UK. My wife is an Indian national, while me and the kids are Dutch nationals. So we had to apply for a visa for my wife.

As advertised on their website this process takes 2 weeks. It in the end took them 5 months to reach a decision.

During this time I actually went with the kids to the UK, got them enrolled in school, had a job waiting to start when my wife arrived. But as anybody would understand, a potential employer isn't going to wait forever and they in the end had to look for someone else. Packed up the kids, moved back to India.

Then sent a cancellation letter to the UK embassy.... and they sent back her passport with a visa.
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I wonder if you could ask for compensation. IT certainly sounds like the UK failed to fulfill its obligations towards you as a european citizen.
 
GnaGnaMan said:
I wonder if you could ask for compensation. IT certainly sounds like the UK failed to fulfill its obligations towards you as a european citizen.
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Truth be told, I hadn't considered it. At the moment just busy getting life back on track here and I don't want to spent the additional time and effort in following it up further.

But thanks for the suggestion, I might look into it once we're properly settled in again.
 
Tolls said:
When we got number 2 Tolls' passport we did the Check and Send thing at the PO, where they make sure you filled everything in correctly so it doesn't get rejected and delay the issuing. When we got the passport back they'd spelled his middle name wrong.

They really are useless.
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For my last passport renewal I took good home photos and made sure the proportions were within the guidelines. They were returned as 'outside the required proportions'. I measured them again and they were fine, so sent the same photos back in. They were accepted :rolleyes:
 
According to the article the Netflix thing that they're saying we'll lose hasn't even started yet. In the past and up until tomorrow, a Brit travelling to, say, France, could only access the French Netflix while they're in France - that situation will now still exist after Brexit. Hardly a great loss - it's more in the range of "we promise that things would have gotten better if you'd remained in the EU - but now they won't."
 
ceptimus said:
According to the article the Netflix thing that they're saying we'll lose hasn't even started yet.
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Yes. Was there something about the post which caused you to think differently? If so, it was purely a feature of your own interpretation, because nothing I wrote would cause any reasonable person to think it implied anything different.

In the past and up until tomorrow, a Brit travelling to, say, France, could only access the French Netflix while they're in France - that situation will now still exist after Brexit. Hardly a great loss
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Whether it is a great loss or not will likely depend on the feelings of each individual. Considering the furor over mythical restrictions on the color of passport covers, I have to wonder if such a real restriction will not be one which creates at least a similar consternation among Brexiteers when the time arrives.


- it's more in the range of "we promise that things would have gotten better if you'd remained in the EU - but now they won't."
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Yeah? And?

Are you suggesting that it is not true in this particular case?
 
Manufacturers plan job cuts and price increases ALL THE TIME. It would be pretty miraculous if Brexit was the one exception to the rule.
 
ceptimus said:
Manufacturers plan job cuts and price increases ALL THE TIME. It would be pretty miraculous if Brexit was the one exception to the rule.
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Now you're just playing silly... you don't actually believe what you wrote here... do you?

Manufacturers SHOULD be looking to maximize profit ALL THE TIME. This can include job cuts or an increase in price but can also include, but is not limited to, lowering prices in order to increase sales if there is spare production capacity, expanding production if demand outstrips production capacity and thus hiring people.
 
Speaking to several fishermen in the Black Swan in Whitby last night. They are worried by Brexit. They work on the Lobster and Langoustine boats that form most of the Whitby fleet.
They are worried that their main source of trade will go with Brexit. Ninety percent of their catches go off live to Europe in special lorry trailers fitted with water baths.

Irony being they voted for Brexit in the first place, they didn't think it through.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Speaking to several fishermen in the Black Swan in Whitby last night. They are worried by Brexit. They work on the Lobster and Langoustine boats that form most of the Whitby fleet.
They are worried that their main source of trade will go with Brexit. Ninety percent of their catches go off live to Europe in special lorry trailers fitted with water baths.

Irony being they voted for Brexit in the first place, they didn't think it through.
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But they will get their blue passports that has to be totally worth losing their boats right?
 
ceptimus said:
Manufacturers plan job cuts and price increases ALL THE TIME. It would be pretty miraculous if Brexit was the one exception to the rule.
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But prices and manpower change as market forces, this kind of generalized thing would normally be called a recession. Brexcession?
 
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