Author who left wife and child in NEW ZEALAND and came to Scotland for lock down

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I mean is he fucking nuts???

He left NEW ZEALAND to come here???

Apart from breaking lock down, obviously, who the hell would leave New Zealand?

Fud.

Just had a peek at her Twitter. She is the first woman to have a four year old clearly.

If they've split so what if he's moved back/away. Idk how visa etc works maybe he felt safer coming back where he was able to stay however long?

Meh. Non story. If he self isolates. And people fly out easily. I know more than 20 mates who have got on repatriation flights, in my social circle. It is what they are there for

Would he have been allowed to stay in NZ anyway, post split?

if it was the other way round it would not have been allowed, I hope,

Unlikely, because he's not an NZ citizen, but NZ citizens would, I hope, have been allowed to return home.
I'm not sure he'd be allowed into the US for his other home, though, with him not being a US citizen.

I've never heard of him but our airports aren't closed. The government doesn't care so why would he?

Was he the only person on the flight i wonder?

People going on about the risk are in reality simply trying to find a stick to beat him with; realistically the risk is going to be minimal, and if anything considerably less than that posed by anyone else flying into one of our airports on any day of the week.

I feel a bit sorry for him - we have no idea of his personal circumstance except his marriage has broken down and his family has split up. And now his personal pain is very public knowledge. I had no idea who he was until this thread.

Apart from breaking lock down, obviously, who the hell would leave New Zealand?

Me. I couldn't get away quick enough.

I don't understand why you care OP, unless he lives in close proximity to you in Skye. Even then, he's going to isolate for a couple of weeks so it's a bit of a non event isn't it?

It maybe wasn't his smartest idea ever but if I was faced with AP I'd have done the same thing!

Was he the only person on the flight i wonder?

I imagine there may have been a pilot

It does seem daft to leave New Zealand in today's climate, but he has his reasons

My parents (in their late 80s, shielding) are on another Scottish island which they've been told has had only five cases so far, none fatal. We are all hugely reassured by the fact that nobody is supposed to be able to get there at present unless they're a resident (CalMac is enforcing this by checking documentation before people are allowed to board the ferry). Much harder to control who gets onto Skye because of the bridge. I would be absolutely incandescent if some entitled holiday home owner turned up there, regardless of where they'd come from.

But he is a homeowner and it's his address on the electoral roll.

He's left a very young child thousands of miles away. That, to my mind, makes him an irrevocable dick.

He's a British man who was in NZ when his marriage broke down and returned to a home he has in Britain. That is not breaking lockdown. British people are allowed to return to the UK in the such events.

That. If he wasn't British and didn't have family here, it'd be a different matter. Also coming from NZ he's not going to be bringing the virus with him.
There are still many people stranded abroad who are trying to get home to the UK. My lockdown lodger had to break his long term travel to get back here on the last flight out of the country he was in, at the beginning of lockdown.
Are we going to kick off at every one of them?

If the author (who I don't know) is British, pays UK tax and is registered to vote from his Skye home, then he's entitled to be there. His private life is none of our business.

If he is a British citizen, he is entitled to come to his home in Britain. It's no different to the government repatriating Brits from overseas places.

Would people have been making the some fuss if his home was in Hull or Middlesborough? If he pays council tax there and he's on the electoral register then by definition he's a resident.

Ah Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer. The much touted open relationship comes crashing down when the middle age man actually does it rather than her just constantly talking about it. I really see no reason why a multi millionaire like him couldn't have just rented a house somewhere else in NZ, or even London. Why puss off everyone in Scotland and put endless messages about it on twitter, patreon etc (both of them). Attention seeking narcissists (both of them) too used to getting what they want with no considerationnor other people, usual sleb behaviour.

Hahaha pissed off everyone in Scotland? Slight exaggeration there. I'm betting most of the people complaining in this thread are not scottish

He is in the electoral register for that house on Skye so he is entitled to return there.

Oh, stop it.

The are not getting divorced. They should because she treats him and her step children awful!

Just because you're entitled to do something doesn't mean you should or its a good idea.

I'm entitled to go out licking car door handles, there's no current law against it. Doesn't make it socially acceptable to do so. What he did at this stage of the pandemic (not a repatriation flight at this point) is also not socially acceptable to most. There are thousands of people trapped in lockdown with a spouse they are not getting on with, thousands of people who have discovered their spouse is shagging around during lockdown and worse, people trapped with an abuser. They can't just fuck off to the other side of the world, dumping their childcare responsibilities (she's now advertising for a nanny), and neither should he. He could have moved to the capital, down the road, anywhere. Unlike many people who are trapped.

I haven’t been to NZ but it holds no appeal at all. Skye on the other hand is amazing