The landslide win of the Tory's in the election knocked the sails out of many people, i was just one. I couldn't bring myself to watch the victory speeches and just tried to tune out. The government now is openly hiring all manner of spin doctors and recently effectively sacked the Chancellor because he wouldn't accept to just be a puppet of the central spin machine.
I was prompted this week by family to see what the status of my application and that spurred me into completing the last part. Whilst i always wanted to gain FBR status as a contingency against Brexit taking away my visa free travel, and partly as a small signal that i am against this whole craziness, right now we are in 'transition' and so the new passport was strictly needed. In any case Covid-19 has caused many events to be cancelled including over seas travel in the case of my company, never the less i continued to complete this.
Today i posted the complete application package for a passport and a plastic ID card (€115) not including postage. I'd expect to get the passport itself in a couple of weeks, we'll see.
We live in a very dangerous time for democracy with the Government very carefully controlling the publics perception of everything and only delivering constant feed lines that the public can repeat ad naseum. This is only made worse by foreign powers also using social media and fake news to manipulate the voter. Hopefully this will be resolved one day but i have no idea how.
