Windrush Scandal

[Hacker Khan]

[video=youtube;Y2q2dQlsywY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2q2dQlsywY[/video]

Speech.

 

[Hacker Khan]

And whilst I've never said this before, fair play to The Daily Fail for leading with this on their front page instead of doing what the Sun, Star and Express did and ignoring it on the front page as they thought the only important thing that happening in the UK yesterday was a celeb getting a drink driving conviction.

 

[IanM]

Cant see your link, but from the radio report, the Govt are saying "Oooops, that's a mistake"..... a Civil Servant will be getting a telling off somewhere!

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Cant see your link, but from the radio report, the Govt are saying "Oooops, that's a mistake"..... a Civil Servant will be getting a telling off somewhere!

Or a public servant like the previous Home Secretary?

In the UK Illegally? Go home or face arrest...

Nice and empathetic that was...

 

[IanM]

Correct. Totally unforgivable. Especially when you see the sort of scum who we want to deport but can't.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

There seem to be an unfortunate number in The Home Office over the years who need to look up the definition of empathy. Surely at some point one of them should get their nose out of the rule book and flag that something is not right. This should have been dealt with calmly, quietly and with no distress to those involved.

 

[londonlewis]

It's despicable to think you could be deported despite your parents moving here 6 decades ago and you living here almost all of your life.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

It's despicable to think you could be deported despite your parents moving here 6 decades ago and you living here almost all of your life.

Particularly as we invited those parents to come and live here.

 

[Hobbit]

If ever a dept needed to be the pinnacle of diversity...what a bloody, deplorable mess.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

And I fear that it is only going to get worse...

 

[Tashyboy]

The bit that gets me is that these people were invited here and did skilled jobs that enhanced our lives and there's. Polar opposites of the mass I policed migration problems we have now. Yet these people are now treated like criminals. It is disgusting.

 

[Mudball]

No point reminding anyone who was the head of the home office that decided to remove the immunity in the first place... our very own Maybot..

 

[SocketRocket]

If someone has lived in the UK this long should they have become British Citizens? If they have retained their original citizenship then I can see this may create a problem at some time. Not sure if this is the case though.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

If someone has lived in the UK this long should they have become British Citizens? If they have retained their original citizenship then I can see this may create a problem at some time. Not sure if this is the case though.

I suppose the comparison is the British ex pat who retires out to Spain or France. I'm not sure many of them change citizenship.

 

[IanM]

And I fear that it is only going to get worse...

Probably not. HO severely egged for the mess up, PM eating humble pie publically. Bloke I spoke to in Whitehall yesterday said the internal fall out will be considerable.

But, you are fishing, yet again.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Interesting comparisons of the compassion shown to Commonwealth citizens who have lived in the UK for 50 years, and the EU citizens who have only managed 40 years.

 

[IanM]

Interesting comparisons of the compassion shown to Commonwealth citizens who have lived in the UK for 50 years, and the EU citizens who have only managed 40 years.

And those returning from fighting for ISIS?

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Interesting comparisons of the compassion shown to Commonwealth citizens who have lived in the UK for 50 years, and the EU citizens who have only managed 40 years.

@Doon - I fear things are being set up for a difficult future. Where every individual from the EU27, and indeed the commonwealth countries and sub-continent, will feel (at best from time-to-time) that they are being looked upon with suspicion of being an illegal - and many will find themselves being asked to prove their residency qualifications in what for the rest of us are just the things we do in life. And some - maybe many - will find themselves in terrible situations as some of the Windrush Generation

Immigration should not be about counting numbers - it should be about people. Because when it is reduced to counting numbers (as May would have it to get to her 10s of thousands net immigration), we will find Civil Servants having to seek the low-hanging fruit as they struggle to meet unrealistic targets...and so under May's time as Home Secretary some nice juicy low hanging fruit was found in the Windrush generation.

But fret ye not @Doon - for I am just a naysayer...

 

[Mudball]

And those returning from fighting for ISIS?

I think a bit harsh to compare hard working joe bloggs from Windrush / Commonwealth with fighters returning from ISIS. If i m not wrong, most of the returning fighters were home born citizens who chose the wrong path.

 

[IanM]

I think a bit harsh to compare hard working joe bloggs from Windrush / Commonwealth with fighters returning from ISIS. If i m not wrong, most of the returning fighters were home born citizens who chose the wrong path.

Absolutely no comparison at all. Was reflecting on how honest hard working citizens could face deportation, while some scumbag terrorists are allowed back in!