mjr

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[–] mjr 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Article says only that they bought the home in 2021 and that "the family travels frequently", which sounds like both not long enough residency and too many absences for a normal person's citizenship. Also it says he is still poor at the language after many lessons.

[–] mjr 1 points 3 months ago

pro-European British media

That's only one newspaper, The New World, which only launched after the 2016 referendum (as The New European, claiming the heritage of The European which shut down in 1998).

[–] mjr 0 points 3 months ago

You can buy an eSim adapter online for ~$15 off sites such as AliExpress.

And does it share with Chinese intelligence only, or the NSA too? 😉

[–] mjr 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It says €14.99/month for life. And why is eircom now an Irish branch of a Jersey company? Tax dodging?

[–] mjr 13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

In most countries, getting a phone in a store is something done only by people happy to pay lots extra for a little human help, surely? The average user now signs up online and gets a phone in the mailbox.

[–] mjr 25 points 3 months ago

Or much of the world never had a similar malfunctioning telco.

[–] mjr 9 points 3 months ago (14 children)

Any idea how they qualified? Is there some special law for the rich?

[–] mjr 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The media playing a big part in it was obvious. Also displaying a great deal of misunderstanding what the EU and what the UK is and isn't.

I think the owners understood full well, but chose not to share that understanding with their readers. The media barons profit more from misleading the public.

[–] mjr 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

There were plenty of voices pointing out the UK couldn't agree a position in its own Parliament and then simply expect the EU to comply, but they got little UK media coverage. Media owners preferred to sustain false hope and then claim victimhood, trying to create a new "stabbed in the back" myth to usher in some ultranationalists they can buy.

[–] mjr 14 points 3 months ago

That's a horribly wrong emphasis in that headline. Really should open with the deaths, even if they weren't famous here. RIP.

[–] mjr 9 points 3 months ago

There's soooo many reasons to exile him besides that!

[–] mjr 7 points 3 months ago

As media pushes 3 main parties to start pushing fascist ideology. Media "acts" surprised.

Fixed that for you.

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