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Nobby Reserve:
--- Quote from: lamad on May 18, 2022, 06:20:42 pm ---Very good and matter of fact summary:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/18/uk-has-to-accept-border-irish-sea-inevitable-ex-wto-chief-pascal-lamy-brexit-boris-johnson
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It's great to see experts give such pragmatic deconstruction of the issue, but Lamy misses an important point:
Much of this is just posturing in order to keep the lunatic, nationalist Brexwit base onside
rob1966:
Missus was just saying to me she's seeing loads of stories of people going on holiday to the likes of Spain and being told at the airport they can't fly as they have less than 6 months on their passports.
Yet another Brexit win.
PaulF:
Someone on the radio, (cons MP I think) was asking why we need the border. checks Saying there are checks now, but no instances of unsafe produce, no chlorinated chicken has been found going across the border.
I think he had some other major faux pas that he was pulled up on , rather than have it explained to him that of course nobody would try to ship 'faulty' produce to the EU if we knew it was going to be stopped!
Clearly analytical thinking isn't their forte.
Sudden Death Draft Loser:
--- Quote from: rob1966 on May 19, 2022, 10:36:02 am ---Missus was just saying to me she's seeing loads of stories of people going on holiday to the likes of Spain and being told at the airport they can't fly as they have less than 6 months on their passports.
Yet another Brexit win.
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Happened to a friend of mine, who was trying to fly to Portugal for his mother's funeral.
He didn't have time to get a new passport before the funeral.
BarryCrocker:
You wouldn't read about it.
--- Quote ---PM’s father Stanley Johnson ‘secures French citizenship’
Johnson campaigned for UK to remain in EU in 2016 but has since expressed support for Brexit
The prime minister’s father, Stanley Johnson, has secured French citizenship, according to reports.
French officials reportedly told the AFP news agency that Johnson, 81, whose mother was French, obtained French nationality on Wednesday.
Johnson, father to Boris, Rachel, Leo, Jo, Julia and Maximilian, campaigned for the UK to remain in the EU in 2016, while his son Boris led the leave movement. However, Johnson Sr has since expressed support for Brexit.
He confirmed he was applying for a French passport on the eve of Britain’s Brexit transition period coming to an end on 31 December 2020.
Johnson served as an MEP 40 years ago and was one of the first UK civil servants to work in Brussels after Britain joined the EU – then the European Economic Community – in 1973. He went on to work for the European Commission.
He joins thousands of Britons who have acquired EU citizenship since the Brexit vote. He previously said: “It’s not a question of becoming French. If I understood correctly, I am French. My mother was born in France, her mother was entirely French, and her grandfather too. So for me it’s a matter of claiming what I already have.”
He is also on record as saying: “I will always be European, that’s for sure. You can’t tell the English ‘you’re not European’. Europe is more than the single market, it’s more than the European Union. That said, to have a link like that with the EU is important.”
Foreigners with French relatives can no longer claim French nationality when their family has remained settled abroad for more than 50 years without having exercised the rights linked to nationality, according to French law. This is known as loss of nationality through désuétude, or disuse.
However, an article of the French civil code allows these people to regain French nationality by simple declaration, subject to justifying “manifest cultural, professional, economic or family ties” with France or having fought for it. It was on this basis that Johnson is understood to have made a declaration of French nationality, Le Figaro reports.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/20/pms-father-stanley-johnson-secures-french-citizenship
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