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[elisi]

Such fun to realise that yes, I will become a 2nd class citizen. :( ETA: Although I'm not worried *personally*, as I am pretty much top of the privilege pile, but I know how much heartache and pain this will cause...)

Email your MP: After the Windrush row, the Immigration Data Exemption must go

Raise funds: Remove the immigration exemption from the Data Protection Bill

OTOH, a good thing also happened: Home Office will no longer use NHS data to track down illegal immigrants

Thank goodness for Eurovision, a bright spot in an otherwise bleak world.

China banned from broadcasting Eurovision after cutting same-sex dance and tattooed singer

And speaking of Eurovision, it's 20 years since Dana International!

Viva la diva! How Eurovision's Dana International made trans identity mainstream

(And I bet you all started humming the song! :D )

Plus:

Russia don't qualify for #eurovision meaning that the eurovision voting system is harder to hack than the US election and brexit referendum.

— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) May 10, 2018

Comments

[kerkevik_2014]

Been feeling like I really wish I can get a big enough lottery win that I can just get a passport (non-UK one definitely an option!) so that I can just leave and never come back.

Beginning to feel so ~ gotta say ashamed :-( ~ to be British these days. Never could say I was proud of my country, but I've never felt this way before.

kerk

[elisi]

Been feeling like I really wish I can get a big enough lottery win that I can just get a passport (non-UK one definitely an option!) so that I can just leave and never come back.
And here I am, just wanting to stay without any fuss... :(

And hey, I guess it's a good reminder that Britain has a long and not great history. Let's hope that somehow the next generation turns things around properly.

[bogwitch.livejournal.com]

20 years since Dana International? Wow. (Yes, I can still hum it)

[elisi]

Yeah, it took me by surprise too... But a cracking song.

Also, hi - long time no see. :)

[sea_thoughts]

Eurovision doesn't mess around.

I emailed my MP as well.

[elisi]

Maybe the Eurovision committee could run the EU?

Also thank you. <3

[sea_thoughts]

I know you're joking but it seems like the EU could benefit from adopting some of Eurovision's safeguards!

[elisi]

Yes, it was only a half=joke, half wishful thinking..

[sea_thoughts]

And everyone would have to wear amazing costumes to important meetings.

[elisi]

...

Now I am picturing that guy in the TALLLLLL dress/cape thing. Was he Romanian? Damn that would make politics more interesting.

[sea_thoughts]

If all the Dutch dressed up like Van Helsing and all the Romanians dressed like Dracula, it would make things a lot more fun to watch. ;)

[elisi]

And the British... Morris dancers? ;)

[sea_thoughts]

No, Sherlock Holmes, obvs. A sea of deerstalker hats. XD

[elisi]

Of course!

And a few Doctor Who cosplayers too?

[sea_thoughts]

Yes. And Jeremy Corbyn as Obi Wan Kenobi. :3

[elisi]

Theresa May as Palpatine?

[sea_thoughts]

I don't know, Palpatine was sneaky and, you know, competent... >>

[elisi]

[sea_thoughts]

It's true.

[elisi]

ETA: Found a longer and more indepth burn:

A letter to Theresa May: the heroine Britain got when it was asked 'do you want me as your PM' and Britain said 'not really but whatever': /1 pic.twitter.com/oKAzJx23lw

— SheRa Marley-Threepwood (@SheRa_Marley) May 13, 2018

(It's a long thread.)

[sea_thoughts]

Not in any way like a drunk ex at 2am pleading for another chance because deep down they're good person

OMG

Your government produced this handy leaflet to the people you were forcibly deporting to Jamaica advising them to speak a bit rasta and keep an eye out for suicidal feelings

WTF

YOU'RE ONLY IN POWER BECAUSE YOU GAVE £1BN TO SOME BIGOTS

Never forget

Oh look its Amber Rudd again, I don't think she trusts you very much any more

Being forced to go on a television debate 48 hours after her father's death should have been a clue. :/

Your fucking cabinet is disintegrating like a cheap Argos wardrobe in a grotty bedsit

Okay, this made me laugh.

Thanks for the link. Followed immediately.

[elisi]

It just kept going and kept going... I have no idea how that woman is still in power, except how all the alternatives are worse. PM Boris anyone? D:

[sea_thoughts]

Pretty much because all the Tory alternatives are worse, yes.

[elisi]

How are they all so awful???

/rhetorical question, the answer is they're Tories