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The UK starts to collect entrance fees now.
We need an Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) starting April 2.
10 Pounds.
Yeah, right.

So now I need to buy myself a passport first, because my ID card is no longer enough identification, and than I have to trow in another 10 pounds...
I think I'll go to Paris or Berlin on a city trip instead of London.
Quick update: our nationwide public transit ticket recently got a bit more expensive - it now costs €58,- per month to use local transit anywhere in Germany.


And since you're Dutch:


Also, May, June and July are the best months to visit Germany.
 
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The UK starts to collect entrance fees now.
We need an Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) starting April 2.
10 Pounds.
Yeah, right.

So now I need to buy myself a passport first, because my ID card is no longer enough identification, and than I have to trow in another 10 pounds...
I think I'll go to Paris or Berlin on a city trip instead of London.
Probably the best idea, because even after you've paid your £10 there's likely to be chaos when you try to enter the country

Nicolas Rollason, an immigration partner at the London law firm Kingsley Napley, said the real problems may not emerge until April, when the ETA applies to those travelling by air, Eurostar or ferry.

“The Home Office expects a vast number, 30 million, to apply for ETAs. If even a small portion of these, like 1%, get pushed into the visa system it is just going to overwhelm them. The biggest travel groups are from the US and Europe and this has the potential to create huge queues and backlogs in the visa system. It could be a disaster and cause all sort of knock-on problems,” said Rollason.
Rollason, who also chairs the International Bar Association’s immigration and nationality committee, said it could bring Home Office policy into “sharp focus” if businesses and high-profile artists who had been travelling in and out of Britain for years were confronted with visas for short working stays.


 
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It's that lettuce woman again


Liz Truss, who has positioned herself as a champion of free speech since her short time in Downing Street, has said the country will fail unless British media outlets such as the Guardian, the Times and the BBC are “fixed”.

The former prime minister, who described herself as a “big supporter” of Elon Musk, said the media in the UK focused on the wrong issues and the situation needed to be corrected for the country to succeed.
Speaking to Voice of America, Truss did not elaborate any further on the mechanism she would use to reform the media landscape. She made her comments after being asked about reports last year that she had lobbied on behalf of a constituent who wished to export landmine disposal equipment to China at a time when she was publicly calling for Beijing to be formally categorised as a “threat” to national security.

She said: “We have got a massive problem with the British media, which is they don’t focus on the important issues, whether it’s the grooming gangs that they have failed to hold bureaucrats and police officers to account on, whether it’s the debt crisis that we now have in our country with the highest levels of gild borrowing (sic), or the highest rates of borrowing since the 1990s; they’re not focused on that.
 

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It's that lettuce woman again

This is how the far right gets space for itself. Cannonballs like Truss bounce around everywhere, making noise, while less-extreme far-right can go "I'm not like her" and suddenly they seem to be the reasonable ones. Rinse & repeat, until "normal" is something you would never have recognized 20 years earlier.

Keep an eye on her, but don't lose track of the vermin that come in through the hole in the wall she created.
 

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This is how the far right gets space for itself. Cannonballs like Truss bounce around everywhere, making noise, while less-extreme far-right can go "I'm not like her" and suddenly they seem to be the reasonable ones. Rinse & repeat, until "normal" is something you would never have recognized 20 years earlier.

Keep an eye on her, but don't lose track of the vermin that come in through the hole in the wall she created.
Liz Truss, the shortest-serving prime minister in British political history, is almost universaly regarded as a joke over here (or, perhaps, as the punchline to a joke about lettuces). The Conservatives, whom she so briefly led, wish she'd shut up and go away. Their opponents are all delighted when she reminds voters why they didn't vote Conservative last July.

At the moment, the right over here are primarily concerned with not being seen as being quite as demented as Elon Musk and Donald Trump, while not annoying them too much either.

Liz Truss is just another example of someone who failed spectacularly in the UK and is trying to make a new career on the US right-wing media circuit.
 
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Andrew Tate, you know the self announced alpha male who according to Greta Thunberg has small dick energy, has founded his own party in the UK named "Britain Restoring Underlying Values" or in short BRUV. Bruv is English slang for Bro.

Its goals are the destruction of the BBC, he wants to educate warriors, and other stuff like going against LGBT+. Elon Musk seems to be quite pleased about the effort.

 
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I’m sure right wing grifters fragmenting will do well in first past the post.

But then again it’s about attention seeking and victimhood while still being an unstoppable manwich hero figure.
 
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