#101

I find the fact that Downing Street infighting and the resignation of an aide to the PM I’d never heard of before last night is headline news profoundly depressing, what with everything else that is going on in the world right now.

#102

Nice way to cover up passing the 50,000 death total yesterday - and of course the usual suspects lap it up.

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#104

what he’s said is quite simple, he said

“here’s what it’s like to tour the EU when you’re from a third country”

which is exactly what’s going to happen unless we get a deal

followed by

“whatever lightweight deal gets passed by the end of Dec will not include this stuff”

#105

Reading that I have no idea how small American bands can afford to tour Europe

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#106

The thread opens up with

Dear fellow musicians, performers, technicians etc. Here’s a thread about how our lives are going to change re touring/working in the EU in 50 days time

which infers everything in the thread is definitely going to happen. It may well do, and it’ll be an absolute disaster of monumental proportions, but it seems that no one knows quite what will be imposed on touring musicians from the UK.

#107

the bit about getting a visa for every country is not entirely accurate- there’s such a thing as a cultural visa which is schengen-wide and designed for artists/sportspeople/film crews etc.

#108

this reads like it’s for people attending events rather than working at them?

#109

same thing in their terms, performers count as attending the events.

(also lots of countries citizens are exempt from getting the visa at all, including the US. pretty sure it’s just china, parts of asia and most african countries that need it.)

#110

Hopefully they won’t introduce what Switzerland does to every border. You have to unload all the merch from the van, get a receipt from the customs officer, and then pay VAT when you leave for every tshirt and album sold. If the customs people think you’re hiding tshirts in the drums or whatever, they will make you unload everything and go through it all looking for ilicit tshirts.

#111

I’ve not really been following this but what’s going on here? Folk in this Government don’t quit, so I presume a big deal??

#112

I’ve heard so many stories to this effect regarding playing in Switzerland. We swerved a Switzerland for our (obviously cancelled) tour in September, I think at least partly for those reasons.

#113

I regularly go to the (eastern) Swiss border for work. They do this sometimes with cars with Swiss numberplates to make sure they’ve not been doing too much cheap shopping in Germany and Austria too.

#114

The Times claimed this dude (Cummings ally) was going to be new Chief of Staff to free up Cummings to do whatever weird shit he wants to do while still having a puppet in the role. Turns out it wasn’t actually true but Cummings/dude were trying to will it into existence by briefing the press. This is because Cummy and co thought they were losing influence based on BJ hiring Allegra Stratton to be the press briefing person, when they would have preferred it to be Ellie someone from the BBC (less well known), so decided to try and hustle BJ back into their corner.

BJ (already fuming about leaks following the lockdown leak, and having an investigation into it) was absolutely livid. This dude issues him an ultimatum, make me your chief of staff or I walk!! BJ was like hur hur walking machine go brrrrrrr so this dude left. Cummings apparently threatening to walk as well

Tl;dr pathetic infighting from pathetic people all trying to have a dick swinging contest with some frankfurters they’ve sellotaped to their pubes. What a sad little life

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#115

ftfy

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#116

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#117

He’s got a ringing endorsement from Dick Braine.

#118

look how pink he is

#119

nominative determinism at its very best

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#120

Lee Cain is the guy who played Superman in that TV series in the 90s right?