Tuesday 17th April 2018
Posted: Tue 17 Apr, 2018 7:33 am
Morning.
Clocking in.
(Overtime,only an hour and half since I clocked off)
Clocking in.
(Overtime,only an hour and half since I clocked off)
Peter Walker
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24m24 minutes ago
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Doing the Windrush media round this morning, David Lidington is trying to pin the blame on a/ policies of all governments from 1970s onwards and b/ a generalised institutional failing in Home Office. Both pretty disngenuous.
Ugh, might smell better than the catnip teas though.Sleep has been given that most modern of makeovers – it has been Goop-ified, given the clean-sleeping treatment , with Gwyneth Paltrow evangelising about making sleep a priority and her 10-hour-a-night ideal. People are being encouraged to douse vetiver-scented wellness oil between their toes or do a five-minute foam-rolling session right before heading to bed.
Admittedly the HO is useless, but TMay's 2014 and 2016 Immigration Acts put the onus on hospitals etc to check immigration status -- the Hostile Environment .RogerOThornhill wrote:Morning all.
Peter Walker
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Doing the Windrush media round this morning, David Lidington is trying to pin the blame on a/ policies of all governments from 1970s onwards and b/ a generalised institutional failing in Home Office. Both pretty disngenuous.
23m ago 10:01
David Lidington, the Cabinet Office minister, told the Today programme this morning that the government is still not certain whether any Windrush-era citizens in the UK have been wrongly deported, my colleagues Peter Walker and Amelia Gentleman report. (Politics Live, Guardian)
Plenty of both in the HO.PorFavor wrote: I imagine that they feel that incompetence is a better look than malice.
Adam Wagner
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6/ If you have a system which treats people as humans with sympathetic reasons for being here you will inevitably never get to the ridiculously low net migration targets.
No, to reach that you have to put in quite a different system.
David Lammy
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16m16 minutes ago
URGENT @ukhomeoffice @theresa_may @AmberRuddHR my office has just received a phone call about the son of Windrush Generation citizen being deported TOMORROW. Halt this deportation and all further deportations immediately. Call my office for more details. Dominic Grieve is the MP.
Funny how the target culture was swept away in 2010 but seems to be still hanging around (cf. apprenticeships, free schools)...gilsey wrote:Thread.
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6/ If you have a system which treats people as humans with sympathetic reasons for being here you will inevitably never get to the ridiculously low net migration targets.
No, to reach that you have to put in quite a different system.
[youtube]ujo58vV0NaU[/youtube]AnatolyKasparov wrote:Oldie but goodie
I'm angryRogerOThornhill wrote:That unit that Rudd is setting up needs to start working pretty sharpish...
David Lammy
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16m16 minutes ago
URGENT @ukhomeoffice @theresa_may @AmberRuddHR my office has just received a phone call about the son of Windrush Generation citizen being deported TOMORROW. Halt this deportation and all further deportations immediately. Call my office for more details. Dominic Grieve is the MP.
British residents deported to Jamaica told to 'put on accent'
The government has been criticised over a leaflet for people it claims to be deporting to their home country, which includes advice to put on a local accent.
The guide, produced in 2013, offers a list of dos and don’ts for people being deported to Jamaica, including the tip: “Try to be ‘Jamaican’ – use local accents and dialect”. It also reveals the name of the Jamaican currency and the names of some major Jamaican television stations and newspapers.
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Murkier and murkier...Andrew #FBPE #PeoplesVote
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1h1 hour ago
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This is a major scandal. If an insurance company owned by a prominent backer of Leave used use its data to illegally target political messages, is a too much of a leap to imagine a pub co which recently deleted its social media presence did the same?
Yes. I ask Chris Leslie to examine his conscious and decide where he best serves people, country and the Labour party.AnatolyKasparov wrote:Unfortunately, his actions over a considerable period of time now cast doubt on whether Leslie is really "Labour" at all.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... ex-stafferHome Office destroyed Windrush landing cards, says ex-staffer
Evidence of UK arrivals discarded despite case worker protests, says former employee
The Home Office destroyed thousands of landing card slips recording Windrush immigrants’ arrival dates in the UK, despite staff warnings that the move would make it harder to check the records of older Caribbean-born residents experiencing residency difficulties. (Guardian)
Is that a problem?May says Corbyn’s proposed war powers act would make small-scale military interventions unviable
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Jeff Rooker
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Replying to @wesstreeting @HouseofCommons @AmberRuddHR
In my brief year as Home Office minister I personally signed all deportation orders having read the background of each. Has someone changed the line of accountability ?
Well, well...The former employee (who has asked for his name not to be printed) said it was decided in 2010 to destroy the disembarkation cards, which dated back to the 1950s and 60s, when the Home Office’s Whitgift Centre in Croydon was closed and the staff were moved to another site. Employees in his department told their managers it was a bad idea, because these papers were often the last remaining record of a person’s arrival date, in the event of uncertainty or lost documents. The files were destroyed in October that year, when Theresa May was home secretary.
Not for me.citizenJA wrote:Is that a problem?May says Corbyn’s proposed war powers act would make small-scale military interventions unviable
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I expect there's much more where that came from, too - given her length of tenure as Home Secretary.RogerOThornhill wrote:From the above...
Well, well...The former employee (who has asked for his name not to be printed) said it was decided in 2010 to destroy the disembarkation cards, which dated back to the 1950s and 60s, when the Home Office’s Whitgift Centre in Croydon was closed and the staff were moved to another site. Employees in his department told their managers it was a bad idea, because these papers were often the last remaining record of a person’s arrival date, in the event of uncertainty or lost documents. The files were destroyed in October that year, when Theresa May was home secretary.
(cJA edit)PorFavor wrote:---
David Cameron - wasn't he Prime Minister? I'd hate to lose sight of the fact that it was a Conservative Government in office, and that Theresa May wasn't acting in an overall policy vacuum.
It's despicableAnatolyKasparov wrote:Trying to blame conveniently nameless and faceless "Home Office bureaucrats" for what has been going on really is the pits isn't it.
Yes, I was going to go back and add them in for their portion of blame - but I thought that was an edit too far! Glad you mentioned them.HindleA wrote:Coalition Government,some Libdem Ministers more than eager to justify policy and speak for the Government,even though not strictly under their remit.
How come Labour doesn't dig up these nuggets?RogerOThornhill wrote:Heh.
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Its the sort of thing that might be left to backbench MPs I would have thought, too many of Labour's seem keener to loudly support the government however.PorFavor wrote:How come Labour doesn't dig up these nuggets?RogerOThornhill wrote:Heh.
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