Doon frae Troon
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Glad you cleared that up as your initial post looked a bit weird.
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Glad you cleared that up as your initial post looked a bit weird.
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On the basis that at least 2 people misread it, apologies for any lack of clarity.
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Turns out that the documents were destroyed in 2009 when Labour were in government.
Doon frae Troon
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You really sure about that ?
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Oh yes. 2009. Gordon "Gold Reserves at rock bottom prices" Brown was PM.
Maybe we should merge this with the "Funny Coincidence" thread?
Maybe we should merge this with the "Funny Coincidence" thread?
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bluewolf
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He's right. However, it wasn't a Labour Party decision. It was taken by the UKBA, who were an independent body. There you go. Nothing to see here.
Doon frae Troon
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Except that the records were destroyed in 2010.
bluewolf
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That's why I said decision and not action. Not even a subtle difference 👍
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The operating models, business processes and management within the public sector is largely party agnostic.
To attribute bad record management to a political party is naive at best.
To attribute bad record management to a political party is naive at best.
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True to a large extent, although thinking of a Civil Service Client of mine, from conversations, I think a massive majority are Labour voters.
It doesn't make it a Labour decision though. It would be like saying most in the Home Office in Whitehall are West Ham fans so the scandal is the fault of the club. It is ineptness.
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Interesting jump, not sure why you thought I was saying that.
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Is it not just possible to say it is a colossal cluster%^%^ and many people have been treated disgracefully? Instead of trying to score cheap political points in a rather tedious manner by trying to shoe horn labour into this an a desperate way? As that is what puts the vast majority of people off politics at the moment, it genuinely is the kind of mentality you get with primary school pupils.
I thought to be fair to Amber Rudd she kind of fessed up, said they had screwed up has put measures in place to sort it out. And if lessons are learnt and all sides have a think about how we got to this rather sad situation and prevent it from happening again then good. But if people are just going to forget that quickly in a rather childish attempt to change the narrative and put blame onto another political party then we are probably doomed to just keep making the same mistakes.
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Spot on, and I may have said similar earlier
Apologies, I probably saw a link where there was none.
SwingsitlikeHogan
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This scandal ids unlikely to fill all West Indian Brexit voters with much hope that leaving the EU will enable greater and easier immigration from their homelands. Likewise - as this rather exposes the government bottom line attitude to immigration - UK Brexit voters from the sub-continent will be wondering whether greater and easier immigration from their homelands is likely. Both West Indian and sub-continent Brits who voted to were given expectations pre-vote that cutting down EU27 immigration will relax rules and ease immigration from their homelands. I'm thinking they are wondering given this scandalous shambles.
It's not that we weren't warned about May and immigration
https://www.ft.com/content/d2bf2cce-f317-11e3-91d8-00144feabdc0
It's not that we weren't warned about May and immigration
https://www.ft.com/content/d2bf2cce-f317-11e3-91d8-00144feabdc0
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Oh look, another pop at Brexit. Did you vote to remain by any chance? Don't worry, Scots are affected by Windrush, nobody is going to send you back to where you came from.
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Hold up Hogy! 
West Indian Brexit voters???
1) You've spent 2 years telling us all Leaver Voters are all white, Millwall Skinheads! (satire, in case you miss it)
2) West Indians??? My mate's granddad came from Jamaica. Him and his dad are from Pompey. He'd rip your head off for calling him a West Indian!
Bloomin racists!
West Indian Brexit voters??? 1) You've spent 2 years telling us all Leaver Voters are all white, Millwall Skinheads! (satire, in case you miss it)
2) West Indians??? My mate's granddad came from Jamaica. Him and his dad are from Pompey. He'd rip your head off for calling him a West Indian!
Bloomin racists!
Blue in Munich
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Was it just me or is there no sympathy towards those who have been extremely badly treated, just another opportunity to twist it to an anti Brexit rant.
rudebhoy
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May saying that the decision was made under a Labour govt really was point scoring of the worst kind. Absolutely pathetic.
The destruction of the cards is not the issue here, it's the new rules May introduced in 2014 saying if you can't prove you belong here, you're getting kicked out that has caused this problem. Applying these rules to folk who have lived here and paid taxes for 50 years or more is an absolute disgrace.
