It was the Maire who said how odd to chuck out the wife when the husband has the right to stay (or words to that effect)
Le maire, Laurent Piolé, vient d’organiser une réunion publique sur le sujet. Il a aussi lancé une pétition : “Elle paie ses impôts, elle fait travailler des artisans, elle fait vivre le tissu économique, c’est une personne totalement impliquée dans la vie de la commune. Je crois que c’est la première fois en Creuse qu’on voit une personne britannique recevoir une OQTF, sachant que son mari a le droit de rester.”
This is exactly it, an entrepreneurial visa renewal stands or falls solely on the income from that enterprise. You can’t top it up with a side hustle or money from family.
We don’t know by how much she has missed the target income but how much of a problem does she represent compared to an immigrant arriving from a different continent, but similar to those trying to make it to the UK?
No difference whatsoever I suspect but now the rules apply to Brits to. I believe, as a nation, we voted for this. The days of British exceptionalism are very much numbered.
No idea obviously about her business plan, but cosplay and medieval reenactment are quite big in France, lots of events and festivals etc. If you look online there a good number of niche couturiers.
But can’t find a website for her, so question her business acumen.
If Brits are stupid enough to vote the Führage into power, I worry he will start kicking out EU citizens with settled status and that it will be reciprocated here.
That George Monbiot article I mentioned somewhere else, a comment about systems, also seems germain to both your posts - (I thought you might be interested). Also @Roger_Lapin
This lurching from one bunch of incompetents unwarranted landslide to a different bunch of incompetents unwarranted landslide is unsustainable. PR often ends up with coalitions, but that’s a safer route.
I loved the term “Merdas touch”
I think this is apposite, and available on BBC Sounds.
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
Surprisingly perhaps, amongst the first people to flee Nazi Germany were not the artists (though most of them escaped fairly early on) but the designers from the Bauhaus after the Nazis closed it in 1933.
Some SFers might remember those tubular steel chairs with canvas or plywood seats that at one time were ubiquitous in every post-War school and village hall. However, they might not know that these were designed in London in the 1930’s by Marcel Breuer who was previously Prof of Furniture Design at the Bauhaus. Today Breuer is best known for his ubiquitous Cesca Chair
