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NG @ng1978.bsky.social · Aug 29

Changing my name for now as I’m applying for jobs so need to keep a low online profile.

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 1h

Lanyard classes

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 17h

So, I’ll admit to being pleased when Trump won the nomination in 2016 because it would ensure that Hillary would win 🤦‍♂️. To believe that the system is self-correcting requires you to have been in a coma for the last ten years.

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 17h

What on earth do people mean when they say “uncontrolled immigration” or “open borders”? Surely they can’t mean it literally? Or do they just mean too high. Well say that then instead of spreading misinformation.

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 18h

All about reducing “illegal” immigration. Not a single bloody word that they want to make life impossible for people here entirely legally by taking away their right to benefits meaning they might be destitute or have to leave what may be the only country they’ve ever known. Embarrassing.

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 18h

Or the ridiculous ESTA question that asks if you’re a terrorist and you tick yes

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 21h

Or both of course….

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 22h

Also depending on where the reception was and how much luggage you had, you probably had to be quite brazen to do a runner.

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 22h

Some of the replies to the OP say that because it was a rare occurrence, hotels just accepted it as an occasional cost of doing business.

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 22h

I remember that hotels would sometimes demand your passport as security. Which only really worked if you were visiting a foreign country but was also legally dubious. It’s the property of the government that issues it so not yours to use as security.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

a social history question: how did hotels cope with the risk of guests skipping out on bills - sometimes weeks worth! - in a pre-credit card or reliable ID age? I've read multiple accounts in biographies of people doing this (and heard them from older family members).

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 22h

Sometimes would demand your passport as security. Which isn’t really legal as it’s property of the government and not yours to use as security.

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 22h

Has echoes of Thatcher’s conference speech when she said something along the lines of “instead of being taught moral values, children are being told that they have an inalienable right to be gay”.

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NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 23h

Sorry you’re saying that somebody who’s lived here legally their entire life should just die if they get ill?

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 23h

When you use trans people as a rhetorical device that goes beyond wanting to protect safety and dignity. And as others have pointed out it’s a complete non-sequitur.

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

Badenoch: "While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China built five nuclear reactors."

A perfect summary of conservative idiocy. Glorifying authoritarian post-communism for its efficiency while vilifying democracy for seeking nuance and respect.

It is the Right who hate their own countries.

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 1d

Well maybe if you called between 8.00 and 8.05am

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 1d

@sundersays.bsky.social let’s see what the fuss is about. Billericay will have to wait until another day..,

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 1d

He’s very much playing the man (or woman) and not the ball. He’s not said why he thinks any of their decisions were wrong in law. Just that some judges once volunteered for a migrants rights charity and ruled in favour of somebody Jenrick dislikes.

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NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 1d

Oh Bob, just say “black and brown”, this is taking forever.

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 1d

Your piece certainly wasn’t for the faint-hearted. Maybe some marginalised groups will have to be collateral damage to save the world (if I’ve understood you correctly) but goodness me it feels like a very unpalatable Hobson’s choice. Would it work and if it did would it only be marginally less bad?

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 1d

I’m inferring from this that the 90 out of 180 day rule wasn’t always enforced. After all, going through every passport to check the stamps and adding up the number of days would be very time consuming. So people were staying illegally. Wonder what the attitude towards those doing it here would be.

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 1d

Have they gone off Singapore?

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 1d

He’s also very much playing the man (or woman) and not the ball. He’s not said why he thinks any of their decisions were wrong in law.

NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 1d

Didn’t realise the NF was anti-abortion. Not the most important thing about it I know. Preference for ‘home grown’ people as well as old fashioned misogyny maybe?

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 1d

Struggling to find much humour in the likely next leader of the Conservative Party cosplaying the National Front of the 1970s.

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NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 1d

In fairness to Trump he is not yet at least proposing mass deportation of lawful permanent residents which Reform and the Tories are.