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ewtTime for the linky linky again.
Concerned about UK passport shenanigans and the National Identity Register? Don't despair. Move to Canada.
This is really hard. My home is in Britain, my friends are (mostly) in Britain, I have made a life here... but I'm having a hard time with some of the fucked-up stuff the government is doing. The NHS is being screwed over (have a look at Dr. Crippen's blog for a GP's side of the story), the education is bad enough that I've already decided that if or when I have kids I'll be home schooling them - okay I might do that in Canada too but it wouldn't be because I felt the standard of public eduction was too low - and incompetent bureaucrats are getting a lot of power, which means sooner or later the only way to NOT get screwed over is going to be bribery. Or just being invisible from the system entirely; inconvenient if you want health care, say, or income support after an injury prevents you from working the only black-market jobs you can get. I doubt I'll ever be able to afford land or even a flat of my own here.
I can't just transplant my life back to Canada at the clap of a hand - moving countries means starting over. Also I'd really hate to leave my partners behind, and it isn't fair to ask them to move for me. I don't think I'm going to be applying for British citizenship anytime soon, though. Sure, it would let me work in Europe, but... well. Maybe people will come to their fucking senses and get the Lib-Dems in by the time I finish my degree.
On a lighter note, someone set us up the bomb. At least this is down to incompetence rather than anything malicious. Whee.
Bah. All linked out now.
Concerned about UK passport shenanigans and the National Identity Register? Don't despair. Move to Canada.
This is really hard. My home is in Britain, my friends are (mostly) in Britain, I have made a life here... but I'm having a hard time with some of the fucked-up stuff the government is doing. The NHS is being screwed over (have a look at Dr. Crippen's blog for a GP's side of the story), the education is bad enough that I've already decided that if or when I have kids I'll be home schooling them - okay I might do that in Canada too but it wouldn't be because I felt the standard of public eduction was too low - and incompetent bureaucrats are getting a lot of power, which means sooner or later the only way to NOT get screwed over is going to be bribery. Or just being invisible from the system entirely; inconvenient if you want health care, say, or income support after an injury prevents you from working the only black-market jobs you can get. I doubt I'll ever be able to afford land or even a flat of my own here.
I can't just transplant my life back to Canada at the clap of a hand - moving countries means starting over. Also I'd really hate to leave my partners behind, and it isn't fair to ask them to move for me. I don't think I'm going to be applying for British citizenship anytime soon, though. Sure, it would let me work in Europe, but... well. Maybe people will come to their fucking senses and get the Lib-Dems in by the time I finish my degree.
On a lighter note, someone set us up the bomb. At least this is down to incompetence rather than anything malicious. Whee.
Bah. All linked out now.
