Why yes! I AM still grumpy about Brexit!

[nanila]

Last question on the college staff survey that I just filled out:

Q: What single thing should the College focus on to be a great place to work?

My answer: Minimising the negative impact of Brexit on our European colleagues.

Comments

[cmcmck]

You and me both!

[nanila]

It would help if it seemed like anyone in the UK government had the slightest bit of compassion for these people. It is falling on the shoulders of individual institutions to deal with the ongoing impacts and we haven't even left yet.

I'm quite proud of my institution's reaction, to be fair. The leadership issued some very strong pro-European statements immediately after the referendum, and have followed up the words with actions: there is a lot of help available to college EU employees who wish to secure their residency status now.

[cmcmck]

I'm watching the growth of hate towards minorities and reminding myself that at least one of them has been here before and me with it and that scares me! :o(

[siliconshaman]

It's having impacts all round. There's a number of English researchers in the US that have had to come home, oddly enough [European grants for work abroad.]

Hell, Scotland's talking about a second referendum for independence, and that looks as though it'll have a different result this time. Ireland and Wales are debating joining them if they do split, effectively kicking England out of the United Kingdom. Who knows what effects that'll have, aside from making a bloody mess.

Mind you... given Scotland's looking better and better by comparison, at least if they go independent, there will be somewhere to bug out to. Which would be one good thing to come out of this shambles. One way to be free of the damn Tories.

[cactus_rs]

"grumpy" is an understatement tbqh

[nanila]

Your icon is accurate.

[hilarita]

Hmm. Perhaps I should poke my local union, who are of course doing work on this, to find out whether my institution are helping people who'd like it with residency. We got a lot of mails early on, but nothing much since.
I hope that David Bloody Cameron, who got us into this mess, spends the rest of his life afflicted with at least mild annoyance, since he's caused so much of it. (You know, May He Ever Step On Lego In Bare Feet...)

[cxcvi]

Nah. Four-sided dice would be funnier...

[davidgillon]

Friend just linked to this cartoon, which seems all too appropriate.

[nanila]

I can't see the cartoon...?

[davidgillon]

Not surprising as I seem to have forgotten to put the link in *headdesk*

http://www.eruditebaboon.co.uk/blog/2017/03/political-comixx/