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The Persecution of Love

Huguenot Lovers on St Bartholomew’s Day by John Everett Millais, oil on canvas, 1852.
Image: Wikipedia

If you are living in a mixed-nationality marriage in the hostile environment of the modern UK, true love and hard work are not enough to stop you from being forcibly separated from your family. “Oh, it couldn’t happen here”. Oh, yes it could, and it is happening now.
Only the rich will survive in Brexit Britain.

“FOR RICHER, FOR POORER by Lib Dem Immigrants

Many people who’ve not had cause to find out the hard way don’t realise that mixed-nationality couples can be forbidden from living together in the UK if they don’t earn enough. We want to raise awareness of this, and we’re proud that Lib Dem policy is to oppose it. If you’re married to a British person, you should be allowed to live with them. No means 

testing. For richer, for poorer.

 

Lina is a Dachshund from Munich, Germany; Jamie is an English Bulldog from Croydon. Jamie worries about whether Brexit will mean Lina can’t come and live with him.

Kuniko is a Shiba Inu from Kyoto, Japan. Gary is a Jack Russell Terrier from Bolton. Gary’s income is just enough for Kuniko to be allowed here — but not enough for their puppies too. They don’t know what they should do.

Malcolm is an Old English Sheepdog from Hexham; Brigitte is a Bichon Frise from Toulouse, France. Brigitte is looking forward to the country life, but first she needs to find out what paperwork she’ll need, and the Home Office isn’t answering her questions.

Maryam is a Persian cat from Isfahan, Iran. Tom is a Yorkshire Terrier from Leeds. Maryam expects to get a good job in the UK — but the Home Office won’t count that as income while she’s still in Iran. The stress is affecting both of them.

Rick is an English Bulldog from Solihull; Ernesto is a chihuahua from Ciudad Juarez in Chihuahua, Mexico. Unfortunately Rick lost his job as a security guard, and his benefits don’t come to enough for Ernesto to join him.

Rachel is a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel from Southampton; Dietrich is a Bernese Mountain Dog from Bern, Switzerland. Dietrich is trying to sort out Settled Status but that needs an Android smartphone and his big paws aren’t good with phones.

Shirley is a Bearded Collie from Durham; Jane is a Shih Tzu from Shenzhen, China. Same-sex marriages aren’t recognized in China; Shirley and Jane wonder if this will affect their rights in the UK.

Morag is a West Highland Terrier from Ardnamurchan, and Paweł is a Pomeranian from Gdańsk in Pomerania, Poland. Morag hopes that Paweł won’t experience the abuse that many Poles in the UK have had.

Rhys is a Collie from near Aberystwyth; no-one is quite sure where Ziggy is from, but Rhys loves them anyway.

* Liberal Democrat Immigrants exists to represent those members of the Liberal Democrats who have chosen to come to live in the UK from elsewhere. It also seeks to represent the interests of immigrants to the UK in general and to highlight those issues that disproportionately affect immigrants.”

#hostileenvironment #FBPE #Remain

A King Charles Spaniel by Manet, oil on canvas, c. 1866

The look on a dog’s face that says people have lost their minds. They had happiness within their grasp and they have thrown the ball away. Stop Brexit. STAY!

Three links to saving a nation

TWO IS NOT DEMOCRACY

 

YOU KNOW IT'S WRONG

THE PIPE DREAM THAT STOLE
66 MILLION FUTURES

 

October Afternoon

Trafalgar Square, afternoon, 20 October, 2018

  

700,000 patriots marched to save the future of our country from the consequences of Brexit

 

over 300,000 people have signed the  

petition for a People's Vote

 
over 1 million people have signed
The Independent's petition for

a Final Say

Whether you voted Leave or Remain, the time has come to demand a #finalsay

EVERYTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE UNTIL WE MAKE IT HAPPEN
video narrated by Brian Cox

Last Hope to Save Britain?

JOIN THE MARCH TO DEMAND

A FINAL SAY

ON THE BREXIT DEAL.


The politicians cannot deliver a workable deal. Our democracy is discredited if it does
not benefit the people.
This is the biggest fight of our lives to save our country and a decent quality of life for everyone,
the poor as well as the rich,
the sick as much as the healthy.
This march isn't just for Europhiles:
it is for all of us.

It is for our children;
it is for our parents and grandparents and great-grandparents who fought to give us
social and political rights we take for granted.

It is for people who care about education, environment and culture, for equality and justice, for music and science, for nursing and medicine, for affordable nutritious food
and humane farming standards, for their jobs.

It is for the freedom to follow your vocation in the modern world, unfettered by prejudice and ideology.

It's the last reality check before self-destruction.

A bad Brexit will cause more civil unrest in the long run than no Brexit.

Democracy was given to free the people,
not trap them.
 
March for a vote on the deal.
March for an option to Remain in the EU and reform it from within. 

Get details of the march here

over 300,000 people have signed the  
petition for a People's Vote
over 1 million people have signed
The Independent's petition for
a Final Say

#finalsay

The Fifth Horseman

CLICK HERE TO READ FULL POST

LINKS TO PETITIONS:
The People's Vote
Final Say

Option 4

The Government's own Department for Exiting the EU has concluded that the best option for the United Kingdom's economy and people's jobs is to remain. 


Our elected representatives have shown themselves incompetent to act in our interests. Members of Parliament have undermined Parliamentary democracy by handing more power to the executive.

Now that everyone has more information about the consequences of leaving the EU, we, the People, should be allowed a say on the final deal.

A new People's Vote would not be a second EU Referendum.

It would be the third EU Referendum since 1975, when the majority voted in favour of remaining.

Brexit is still legally reversible. 

We can still save our country and all our futures.

There should be an Option to Remain.

Over 300,000 people have signed
the Petition for A People's Vote

PLEASE MAKE IT EVEN BIGGER BY SIGNING AND SHARING IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY

WE DEMAND

A PEOPLE'S VOTE

 PLEASE SHARE THIS LINK TO SAVING OUR COUNTRY
BY DEMANDING A SAY ON THE FINAL BREXIT DEAL

READ FULL DETAILS HERE
 
OVER 300,000 PEOPLE HAVE SIGNED THE PETITION
PLEASE SHARE AND
HELP WIN THE FIGHT
TO SAVE OUR COUNTRY

The Misgovernment of Britain

“THE UNCERTAINTY, MUDDLE AND DRIFT [OF BREXIT SHOWS]THAT VICTORIAN THEORIES OF GOVERNMENT SIMPLY DON’T DESCRIBE ANY LONGER THE REALITY OF HOW THE UK IS MISGOVERNED”
Tim O’Connor, Attorney at Law

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Make Democracy Work

Petition Parliament's vote on the Brexit deal must include an option to remain in the EU

"A lesser of two evils choice between a bad deal and no deal is not acceptable. Our country deserves better than Hobson's choice, and our MPs should be allowed to vote with their conscience to deliver what they believe is best for the country.

Government responded:

The British people voted to leave and the Government will implement their decision.The vote on the final deal will give Parliament the choice to accept the agreement or leave the EU with no agreement.

The result of the referendum held on 23 June 2016 saw a clear majority of people vote to leave the European Union. Parliament overwhelmingly confirmed the result of the referendum, on 8 February, by voting with clear and convincing majorities in both of its Houses for the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill. The Government is clear that it is its duty to deliver on the instruction of the British people and implement the result of the referendum.

The Government has committed to hold a vote on the final deal in Parliament as soon as possible after the negotiations have concluded. The terms of this vote are clear; Parliament will have the choice to accept that deal or to move ahead without a deal.

We are confident that we will get the best possible agreement and one which Parliament will want to support.

Department for Exiting the European Union"

SIGN THE PETITION

The democratic right to change our minds

THE BRITISH PEOPLE STILL HAVE A CHOICE ON BREXIT

CLICK HERE TO READ ORIGINAL POST

Lord Cardigan leading the Charge of the Light Brigade

ONCE OUT, THERE IS NO WAY BACK

 

 Lord Kerr 

CLICK HERE TO READ ORIGINAL POST

Why won't the patient take his medicine?

Will this country die from obstinacy?

 Increased support among European nations including UK for EU following Brexit

I'm standing on the wall, berating destiny. Call me Cassandra, if you like. You may think I'm mad and ignore me, but you need me as a particle of collective consciousness in the grand muddle of truth.

Cassandra, Cassandra, You're fated to madness, it's out of your hands Destined to say what no one wants to know

'Cassandra', Famiglia album, written by Sophie Michelle Ellis-Bextor, Ed Harcourt, sung by Sophie Ellis Bextor

READ FULL TIRADE AT THE LAST POST

The air in my country

“The air in my country is very foul”
Ian McEwan, at a press conference in Barcelona, March, 2017

 Pieter Breughel the Elder, The Fall of the Rebel Angels 1562
Oil on oak, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. Image: WGA

"Now is not the time to obstruct the will of the people" Theresa May in the House of Commons, 2017.

"Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue; it is not so much a special principle as it is a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to our country's most urgent needs." Robespierre, in a speech to the National Convention, 1794.

Maximilien Robespierre, oil on canvas by Pierre-Roch Vigneron, 1786; in the Museum of French History, Palace of Versailles. Image: Britannica.com The embodiment of the people 's will, and the exponent of State terrorism: Maximilien Robespierre, smiling his sweet megalomaniac's smile, before the Revolution.

We are being bullied into acquiescence with a disastrous rupture with Europe. Our economy and civilization are being degraded, people we love might be torn from us, and we are told to be silent.

Brexit is being imposed upon us in a reign of Terror, in which dissent is suppressed and the rule of law threatened.

"Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil." Robespierre.

"Enemies of the people"
Daily Mail denouncing the judges of the High Court who upheld Gina Miller's case for parliamentary sovereignty.

Our centuries' old representative parliamentary democracy is broken, smashed under the weight of public opinion polls and political opportunism.

This is not democracy; this is authoritarianism.

If you don't like Brexit, and you love your country, don't shut up.  Never stop protesting.

“It is the right of those of us who voted to remain to continue to speak for what we believe is in our country’s best interest and not allow ourselves to be cowed into silence.”
Ian McEwan, March, 2017

Detail from The Rape of Europa, bronze by Il Riccio (Andreo Briasco), 1520.
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest. Image: WGA

  Great Britain self-destructs:

IF ONLY IT WAS A BAD DREAM
DON'T LEAVE, TIFFANY
DOING THE MACARENA TO CATASTROPHE
ALFRED'S DOOMS
48-52

 

Don't Leave, Tiffany

 

The Awakening Conscience by Holman Hunt, 1853

"Tiffany told everyone she was too good to be there and stormed out without realizing she had no money for a taxi, her phone was dead, and she was 3 miles from the nearest subway # Brexit"

Alfred's dooms

THE GUARDIAN OF DEMOCRACY

DOING THE MACARENA - TO CATASTROPHE

THE FATE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AFTER BREXIT VOTE

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

Jon Stewart

The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.
T.H.White, The Once and Future King