The children of Windrush

[Chilli.s]

Rudd, a liar or incompetent. Possibly both.

 

[existentialist]

Rudd, a liar or incompetent. Possibly both.

It's quite fun watching her waver between the two, though.

I do find it quite astonishing that an entire political party can manage to field quite such a comprehensive team of incompetents, losers, transparent liars, and socially awkward fools, quite so consistently. I find it even more astonishing that they're even remotely electable.

 

[Chilli.s]

[QUOTE="existentialist, post: 15537341,
I do find it quite astonishing that an entire political party can manage to field quite such a comprehensive team of incompetents, losers, transparent liars, and socially awkward fools, quite so consistently. I find it even more astonishing that they're even remotely electable.[/QUOTE]

It does seem to be a particular type of weirdo that goes into politics
.

 

[teqniq]

Tory chairman says he discussed deportations with Amber Rudd

Brandon Lewis has admitted knowing about attempts to increase the number of government deportations and discussing them with Amber Rudd while a minister in her department, increasing pressure on the home secretary to resign.

The Conservative party chairman said he had seen the memo that was leaked to the Guardian on Friday and said he had talked to Rudd about “ambitions” to increase the number of people deported from Britain.

Lewis’s claims appear to contradict Rudd’s evidence to the home affairs select committee last Wednesday, when she was asked when targets for removals were set. Rudd told the committee: “We do not have targets for removals.”...

 

[not-bono-ever]

It's quite fun watching her waver between the two, though.

I do find it quite astonishing that an entire political party can manage to field quite such a comprehensive team of incompetents, losers, transparent liars, and socially awkward fools, quite so consistently. I find it even more astonishing that they're even remotely electable.

i am increasingly appalled by the utter conceit that these elected official seem to hold for their electorate - when wa the last time anyone actully held their hands up, admitted they were incompetent, corrupt or a serial liar and actually left parliament- not just resigned from their cabinet but actually did the right thing and left politics ?

 

[existentialist]

i am increasingly appalled by the utter conceit that these elected official seem to hold for their electorate - when wa the last time anyone actully held their hands up, admitted they were incompetent, corrupt or a serial liar and actually left parliament- not just resigned from their cabinet but actually did the right thing and left politics ?

Well, TBF, even that wouldn't be enough for me. If Amber Rudd isn't rocking the hair shirt, sackcloth, and ashes look by this time next week, she hasn't gone nearly far enough. Then again, you'd have to shave pretty much every hairy animal in the land, create an environmental catastrophe in ash production, and denude the country of sacks for justice to be served on all the MPs who deserve to do the same.

Time was when having the "full confidence" of a Prime Minister was the cue for a prompt departure into oblivion. Something has gone terribly wrong.

 

[teqniq]

Something has been terribly wrong for ages. We don't really live in a true democracy only now politicians are more comfortably brazen about it.

Resign? Fuck you.

 

[billy_bob]

Resigned. Home secretaries resigning's not usually a healthy sign for a government...

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Resigned?

Home Secretary gone cos she’s a lying racist shit.

Ha ha.

 

[neonwilderness]

Amber Rudd resigns as home secretary after Windrush scandal

 

[oryx]

I wonder who'll replace her. No-one obvious springs to mind.

 

[neonwilderness]

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Pants on fire.

 

[Kaka Tim]

 

[Kaka Tim]

from Guardian comments -

Don't think of it as getting the sack, Amber. Think of it as being removed because of irregularities with your paperwork.

 

[Celyn]

A bit too hasty, though. Much better to find that the bank card doesn't work, so there's a big problem buying food, and then she gets thrown out of job, and then thrown out of rented flat, and then unable to pay for gas and electricity ... after a few weeks of this then take her to a detention centre and then to a plane.

 

[teqniq]

What lovely news to wake up to.

 

[19force8]

Tories are now trying to get away with an internal Home Office inquiry to make "a full review of lessons learned, independent oversight and external challenge."

Home Office review into Windrush failings

Whereas Labour are pushing a "motion for a return" this afternoon to get all relevant internal documents handed to the Commons Home Affairs Committee. This would include information about any detentions or deportations, the setting of deportation targets, and how the policies were seen as affecting people’s lives.

 

[patman post]

Human rights experts appointed by the UN have expressed concerns about structural racism in the UK.
UN express serious concerns of ‘racist fabric’ of UK society
Certainly Police and the law ratchet their activities and judgements up a notch when non-Whites are in the frame. So I don’t make one of the major political parties any more culpable than any other over Windrush. Nor do I think middle ranking or senior civil servants are less involved in wrongful treatment of people over immigration issues...

 

[killer b]

This recent clown invasion needs bringing to an end I reckon.

 

[agricola]

Labour lost the motion requesting all files etc be made available to the Commons by 220-something to 316. It would be very interesting to see who from Labour didn't turn up.

 

[teqniq]

Fucking disgusting.

 

[killer b]

win or lose, Labour won that really.

 

[gawkrodger]

the next related scandal?

At least 1,000 highly skilled migrants wrongly face deportation, experts reveal

 

[agricola]

the next related scandal?

At least 1,000 highly skilled migrants wrongly face deportation, experts reveal

It is the same scandal (that of the Government wanting to bring the immigration numbers to a certain level but not wanting to pay for it to be done properly - so the Home Office ends up incentivized to go after the easiest people it can find to deport, with the "best" at that being the ones who get rewarded) just examined from another angle.

 

[GarveyLives]

The case of eighty-four-year-old Stanford Robinson who has lived and worked in the country for sixty-three years demonstrates the challenges faced by the Windrush Generation:

Boxer's Steve Robinson's dad on his 'disgusting' treatment by the Home Office

Windrush: Boxing champ Steve Robinson's dad told he can stay in UK

 

[GarveyLives]

 

[GarveyLives]

Another example ...

Windrush NHS nurse, 81, is separated from her six kids and homeless in Jamaica after being refused re-entry to Britain following 2010 holiday (click for more)

Emotional return to Britain for exiled Windrush great-grandmother, 81, as she arrives at Gatwick after nine years stranded in Jamaica[/url] (click for more)

(Source: Daily Mirror)

Gretel Gocan, 81, who came to the UK in 1960, has now been reunited with her family after almost a decade of enforced exile in Jamaica with no home, no cash and no pension.​

 

[Treacle Toes]

Sixty-three Windrush migrants 'removed'

 

[andysays]

Windrush: Pair tell MPs and peers of detention 'nightmare'

...When Labour peer Baroness Lawrence asked whether Mr Bryan thought things would have been different if he had been from Canada, New Zealand or Australia, he replied: "I hate to say it, but I don't think I would have this problem". Asked whether he thought race was a factor in his treatment, Mr Bryan said: "In the Home Office? Yes."...