@whitequark these feel like slightly obscure pub quiz questions

maybe that's the real settlement process: going to a traditional british pub quiz

@whitequark @6a62 Yeah, that was one thing David Cameron was really proud of.

Incidentally, as I came from the US and Mrs. Hobo's co-worker came from India, we didn't have to take an English exam but he did. Never mind that The US at that time HAD NO NATIONAL LANGUAGE and India's national language is ENGLISH due to having been A BRITISH COLONY IN LIVING MEMORY. He described the interviews like this:

THEM: "Where did you learn English?"

HIM: "Uh, just growing up?"

"No, but in India, where did you take English courses?"

"I didn't? We spoke English?"

"We don't see you using English enough in your profession so you'll need to take a series of exams."

"Do you mean my profession as English copywriter?"

So yeah, you don't have to look far to find rampant racism in the system. The process to collect a first-time UK passport involves these weird grilling questions about your identity that ask you to do things like tell the colour of bricks on your building. I was lucky I caught the trap there, as they'd just pressure-washed the brown off ours to reveal the yellow bricks below and I could tell that the interviewer had gone off an older google street view image (back when that was brand new).

@spacehobo @6a62 holy fucking shit

"We don't see you using English enough in your profession so you'll need to take a series of exams."

"Do you mean my profession as English copywriter?"

@Ced

The petition has a grammatical error in it. It's "retroactively" not "retrospectively". The latter suggests that you simply look back on what failures the MPs would have been had they been expected to take the test.