UK is Fucked
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- Nairn2
Further to my much-disliked strike whinge the other day - I need to get my passport renewed. It's fine 'til October, but I need to play safe with the EU's 3 month rule requirement, and given I only travel to the EU, that's kind of important. In a couple of weeks workers at the Passport Office are engaging in a 5 week strike. That will lead to an inevitable backlog of orders, so I'm going to have to somehow time this perfectly as I need to send my current passport in with the application which in turn means that I can't travel then. Given I'm supposed to be going to Europe three times across an even spread between now and October, that does really rather fuck things up.
I'm not whinging at the strikers here. I'm just whinging.
Why does life suck so much in this country these days?
- I only realised my situation this morning (I didn't know about the EU's 3 month thing). If I had done so, I'd've done this shit prior.Nairn
- re: my last line < there.
The answer is "It's the fucking Tories".
I know that.Nairn - People wanted to shag a union jack, that's why everything sucks.PhanLo
- You can see that UK since 2015 is on a downward trajectory. Move if you can. I have a exit plan.shapesalad
- I'm only still here because my EU partner can get the best kind of job that she can here, so here I am. Me too, as sad as it is to say.Nairn
- It's prudent to do a passport renewal in-personzardoz
- i too got hit by the eu's insistence on a 3 month cushion, but that's ok becasue brexit has worekd well in every respect.hans_glib
- i also found out too late and it was with all the pandemic slowdown so i ended up having to pay thru the nose for the passport people to expedite it.hans_glib
- when i went to the passport office to collect it, sure enough, there were all the workers sitting around doing fuck all, but expediting like crazy.hans_glib
- the tories evidently....u got that right...neverscared