It’s all worth it for ‘sovereignty’, though. Right?
Sacre bleu… but we control our fish non?
Brexit is Brexit
Cheers guys, It’s not like there aren’t enough social barriers to disabled people achieving equality.
I think a more sensible question is who the hell though that our blue badges would remain valid in Europe after we left?
Why did they have to ban blue badge holders because of brexit?
TIL blue badges were accepted in Europe
I mean, yeah I’d probably know if I drove, and I don’t drive, but still. This is one of the things I learned today
Brexiteers unsurprisingly quiet on this one…
Oh my. Yet again, British media blaming EU for taking Brexit serious. Or to quote Xavier Bettel, “Brexit was your idea, not ours”.
Aye, but can parking fines follow you home? You might owe some Spanish Council €350, but you dont live in Spain.
These comments are amazing. Such a far left sub it’s almost off the tip around the world and back to the right.
It was either blue badge or blue passport …
Brexit, the word politicians/ the Media dare not speak
Project Reality strikes again.
This is actually a Brexit benefit. The Tories hate the disabled.
This is yet another example of things being labelled as being the fault of Brexit.
There is a very important difference on something being directly due to Brexit, i.e. actually part of the brexit agreement, and something indirectly occurring due to a number of factors.
There is nothing in Brexit that says “disabled drivers from the UK will not be able to park in disabled spaces”. There is nothing in Brexit agreements preventing blue badge holders from using disabled spaces.
There is nothing in Brexit that says “Drivers crossing the channel must queue for 15 hours”.
What there is however, is a lack of planning and organisation to make these things work as they should have done in a post-brexit world, which eveyone knew was coming for many years.
I just wanted to say that everything I’m still hearing about being “because of Brexit”, mostly is not really. We can’t keep blaming our failures to adapt to an event on the actual event itself.
It’s like blaming being late for work for months on end on roadworks you knew were going to happen, but decide to carry on leaving at your normal time anyway. That’s not the roadworks fault (as much as we might all hate the roadworks), it’s just lack of planning.
So in this thread we have an awful lot of people defending pettiness on the part of a number of EU countries that harms the disabled.
Yes, Brexit is a fucking atrocity, and remaining in the EU would be better. But that doesn’t mean that the EU can do no wrong! These eleven countries are being petty at the expense of the disabled. That is not a good thing in any way, and I’m appalled that anyone would defend it.
Its absolutely no skin off anyone’s nose to recognise each others disability badges. If brexit was ‘done’ I would expect something like this to have been agreed upon years ago.
Everyone blaming Brexit, but it is generally accepted in many countries that other Disabled Parking permits are accepted without issue. This is just the European Union using disabled people to punish UK. The UK itself will accept any other countries’ badge provided it displays the wheelchair symbol. Although recommended to check with local authority/police first.
That is kinda weird.
Have we taken back control yet?
I think Brexit voters mistake sovereignty for “doing the hell we like”. It’s all starting to hit home. Mutual recognition no longer exists in the same way it once did now we’re out of the club – blue badges being one of them, EU data roaming ending for a lot of carriers, going through passport control slowly, amongst other things.
I suppose the issue with the EU countries simply recognising UK badges is how they verify it. I have no idea how it works at the moment, but I assume UK parking attendants have access to some kind of database that verifies that a badge is legit, a database that non-UK parking attendants do not have access to unless it’s arranged.
If there’s no way of verifying it fake British blue badges could become a great free parking device.
Well im not surprised. BREXIT MEANS BREXIT! It’s Oven Ready! 🙄
Well, yeah. The wing nuts in charge lead with “Brexit means Brexit”. They relied on Nationalism and chest thumping rather than negotiation.
If you’re one of the people who couldn’t vote or voted to remain you really do have my deepest sympathies.
However at this point its baffling people are surprised. Really.
Brexit keeps delivering the goods
Did anyone really think it would still be valid when we have no ties to them at all now?
Flip side, good luck enforcing a traffic fine from the continent.
Another lack of planning to add to the list.
Is any /American, japanese whatever version of the blue badge even accepted in the UK, EU or any other country? Probably not.
What will change to mean they might not be recognised?
I don’t understand this. If the UK ‘allow’ you to be deemed disabled, surely you pass the EU definition!
Breaking news: Brexiteers hate disabled people!
The leopards are at it again, eating all those faces
Hardly the biggest of our problems now is it
Why are people not taking issue with the EU on this prospect? To many mental disabled living on this sub.
I mean blah blah brexit bad etc. but surely it’s not a difficult thing for the EU to just accept blue badges?
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It’s all worth it for ‘sovereignty’, though. Right?
Sacre bleu… but we control our fish non?
Brexit is Brexit
Cheers guys, It’s not like there aren’t enough social barriers to disabled people achieving equality.
I think a more sensible question is who the hell though that our blue badges would remain valid in Europe after we left?
Why did they have to ban blue badge holders because of brexit?
TIL blue badges were accepted in Europe
I mean, yeah I’d probably know if I drove, and I don’t drive, but still. This is one of the things I learned today
Brexiteers unsurprisingly quiet on this one…
Oh my. Yet again, British media blaming EU for taking Brexit serious. Or to quote Xavier Bettel, “Brexit was your idea, not ours”.
Aye, but can parking fines follow you home? You might owe some Spanish Council €350, but you dont live in Spain.
These comments are amazing. Such a far left sub it’s almost off the tip around the world and back to the right.
It was either blue badge or blue passport …
Brexit, the word politicians/ the Media dare not speak
Project Reality strikes again.
This is actually a Brexit benefit. The Tories hate the disabled.
This is yet another example of things being labelled as being the fault of Brexit.
There is a very important difference on something being directly due to Brexit, i.e. actually part of the brexit agreement, and something indirectly occurring due to a number of factors.
There is nothing in Brexit that says “disabled drivers from the UK will not be able to park in disabled spaces”. There is nothing in Brexit agreements preventing blue badge holders from using disabled spaces.
There is nothing in Brexit that says “Drivers crossing the channel must queue for 15 hours”.
What there is however, is a lack of planning and organisation to make these things work as they should have done in a post-brexit world, which eveyone knew was coming for many years.
I just wanted to say that everything I’m still hearing about being “because of Brexit”, mostly is not really. We can’t keep blaming our failures to adapt to an event on the actual event itself.
It’s like blaming being late for work for months on end on roadworks you knew were going to happen, but decide to carry on leaving at your normal time anyway. That’s not the roadworks fault (as much as we might all hate the roadworks), it’s just lack of planning.
So in this thread we have an awful lot of people defending pettiness on the part of a number of EU countries that harms the disabled.
Yes, Brexit is a fucking atrocity, and remaining in the EU would be better. But that doesn’t mean that the EU can do no wrong! These eleven countries are being petty at the expense of the disabled. That is not a good thing in any way, and I’m appalled that anyone would defend it.
Its absolutely no skin off anyone’s nose to recognise each others disability badges. If brexit was ‘done’ I would expect something like this to have been agreed upon years ago.
Everyone blaming Brexit, but it is generally accepted in many countries that other Disabled Parking permits are accepted without issue. This is just the European Union using disabled people to punish UK. The UK itself will accept any other countries’ badge provided it displays the wheelchair symbol. Although recommended to check with local authority/police first.
That is kinda weird.
Have we taken back control yet?
I think Brexit voters mistake sovereignty for “doing the hell we like”. It’s all starting to hit home. Mutual recognition no longer exists in the same way it once did now we’re out of the club – blue badges being one of them, EU data roaming ending for a lot of carriers, going through passport control slowly, amongst other things.
I suppose the issue with the EU countries simply recognising UK badges is how they verify it. I have no idea how it works at the moment, but I assume UK parking attendants have access to some kind of database that verifies that a badge is legit, a database that non-UK parking attendants do not have access to unless it’s arranged.
If there’s no way of verifying it fake British blue badges could become a great free parking device.
Well im not surprised. BREXIT MEANS BREXIT! It’s Oven Ready! 🙄
Well, yeah. The wing nuts in charge lead with “Brexit means Brexit”. They relied on Nationalism and chest thumping rather than negotiation.
If you’re one of the people who couldn’t vote or voted to remain you really do have my deepest sympathies.
However at this point its baffling people are surprised. Really.
Brexit keeps delivering the goods
Did anyone really think it would still be valid when we have no ties to them at all now?
Flip side, good luck enforcing a traffic fine from the continent.
Another lack of planning to add to the list.
Is any /American, japanese whatever version of the blue badge even accepted in the UK, EU or any other country? Probably not.
What will change to mean they might not be recognised?
I don’t understand this. If the UK ‘allow’ you to be deemed disabled, surely you pass the EU definition!
Breaking news: Brexiteers hate disabled people!
The leopards are at it again, eating all those faces
Hardly the biggest of our problems now is it
Why are people not taking issue with the EU on this prospect? To many mental disabled living on this sub.
I mean blah blah brexit bad etc. but surely it’s not a difficult thing for the EU to just accept blue badges?
Surely they could just do the decent thing?
🛋️ 💥🔫 why would the Eu do that?