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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c626p66d6jxo

"UK to tighten family member rules for asylum cases"

This is a classic example of the lunacy of Britain’s migration policies. The government thinks it is doing a good, popular thing in tightening an immigration loophole, but the publicity merely reveals that an insane loophole exists and everyone is astonished that it wasn’t tightened before

So everyone gets angrier

True. Though it sounds like it will end the absurd situation where someone born here has to prove minimum income to bring in a spouse, but an successful asylee doesn't.

That's what tends to happen when you change immigration rules with such frequency - there have been a bewildering number of changes since my wife migrated, and more since she was granted citizenship.
When you also lose control of the numbers to the extent Boris did, you leave your successors in government a problem which makes them look less than competent, whatever they do.

I strongly suspect it wouldn't be greatly different in that particular respect, were Reform to be running things.

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I’m not going to wade through. 98 paragraphs of quasi-military crepitations first thing in the morning. If you can’t make an argument in five sentences, don’t make it

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TikTok brain. It's a good article and demonstrates the military babble BTL is a choice, not a condition.

I’m teasing @Dura_Ace as he has, in the past, been incredibly rude to other prolix commenters. The threader is informative and useful

His misuse of “approbation” is surprisingly poor form, however

We're all allowed one lapse.

indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus

"The sleep of Homer brings forth solecisms" ?

Traditionally, "Even the good Homer nods", ie we all make mistakes.

I was mixing in a Goya reference.

Apologies, that passed me by I am afraid.

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I’m not going to wade through. 98 paragraphs of quasi-military crepitations first thing in the morning. If you can’t make an argument in five sentences, don’t make it

Next

TikTok brain. It's a good article and demonstrates the military babble BTL is a choice, not a condition.

I’m teasing @Dura_Ace as he has, in the past, been incredibly rude to other prolix commenters. The threader is informative and useful

His misuse of “approbation” is surprisingly poor form, however

We're all allowed one lapse.

indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus

"The sleep of Homer brings forth solecisms" ?

Traditionally, "Even the good Homer nods", ie we all make mistakes.

I was mixing in a Goya reference.

Big client not paying my invoices - they've been put on 120 days payment terms. Which the client thinks is wholly unacceptable and is pushing to change.

Lets just say that I won't be doing a lot of work for them on 120 days terms...

Why does the client think 120 days is unacceptable ? Do they want to make it 180 or something ?

I suspect because the client isn’t the accounts team and has been told in no uncertain terms that payment terms are x days and if you fail to pay by then no future work will be done.

I know that’s my viewpoint - anyone paying me beyond 30 day terms is taking the Mickey and will discover that they are no longer a priority customer or if I’m vaguely busy a customer at all.

Strikes me that the client has financial problems.

There are a whole set of large companies who at some point have extended payment terms for accounting reasons and can’t now reverse their stupidly long periods for similar accounting reasons.

My viewpoint has been to keep as far away from them as possible but I suspect RD has to deal with the worst offenders as part of his job