The ongoing stupidity of Home Secretary Priti Patel

[MrSki]

 

[Storm Fox]

Looks like the community have pushed back another immigration raid in Peckham.

 

[existentialist]

Looks like the community have pushed back another immigration raid in Peckham.

That level of support is very heartwarming to see, especially if you've just been on Twitter watching racists do cartwheels at the prospect of refugees being flown to Rwanda.

And there must have been 40 police officers there - what has it come to when a presumably fairly straightforward immigration removal requires that much police support, and STILL has to back down? Patel must be spitting nails. Good.

 

[Calamity1971]

Why can't judges speak in lay man terms. I think he's trying to say it's a cunts trick at the court of appeal? I think.

 

[Dystopiary]

There's this in the Graun about legal challenges.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...lan-faces-two-legal-challenges-tuesday-flight

“I think it could be cancelled,” said a government source. “This is due to individual cases rather than a blanket challenge.”

An Iranian human rights whistleblower – who was told last week he would be flown to the east African country despite fleeing to the UK after giving first-hand testimony of potential violations by the Iranian government – is among those to have received a letter this weekend saying he will not be sent to Rwanda.

The man, whose plight was first highlighted in the Guardian, received a letter from the Home Office, which was signed off on Sunday, saying he would not be removed on Tuesday, but said the fear of another attempt at deportation remained.

Fucking hell I hope so much this horrible plan gets stopped.

 

[cupid_stunt]

The appeal has been unsuccessful, the flight is going to Rwanda tomorrow.

 

[MrCurry]

If the whole scheme gets canned, let’s hope it’s the undoing of Patel. An idea so obviously heinous would surely be spotted as a non starter by anyone qualified to be Home Secretary and the fact she backed it makes surely it clear to even someone as half baked as Boris that she’s last her sell by date.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

If the whole scheme gets canned, let’s hope it’s the undoing of Patel. An idea so obviously heinous would surely be spotted as a non starter by anyone qualified to be Home Secretary and the fact she backed it makes surely it clear to even someone as half baked as Boris that she’s last her sell by date.

bojo likes the wolf whistles it sends
also: he has no more morals than she does

 

[izz]

I think the days of ministers resigning from corruption or incompetence are behind us. We just seem to accept any level of bad behaviour from them now.

 

[MrSki]

Squirm you nasty piece of shit.

 

[two sheds]

And she sits there smirking smug fucker

 

[NoXion]

bojo likes the wolf whistles it sends
also: he has no more morals than she does

Dog whistle. No fucker is wolf whistling Johnson.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

 

[Humberto]

The UK government says 77,000 Ukrainians have arrived in the UK since the war started, through two different programs: the Ukraine Family Scheme, where Ukrainians can be hosted by relatives in the UK; and the Homes for Ukraine scheme, where Ukrainians find a local "sponsor" through friends, charities or even social media, and jointly apply for a visa. According to the UK government, "the overwhelming majority... are settling in well."

If that sounds daunting (especially for someone fleeing their home from war) it's because I'm very sure it is. Boris postures, the prick. Then there's this:

Britain's minister for refugees, Richard Harrington, has said he's hopeful that they they will get jobs and eventually be able to rent their own accommodation. Home Secretary Priti Patel has also defended the scheme, saying the government is paying councils almost $13,000 per refugee.

and:

Scott-Mcdonald says that after years of cuts to council budgets, and amid a cost-of-living crisis, that's not enough. She also wants more communication from central government to spare councils the burden of doing it all alone. "We feel that the government did a knee-jerk reaction to the crisis," she said, adding that this has resulted in "chaos" for the council staff and local residents trying to manage the system.

Fucking it up then because they are too certain there is no immediate advantage to themselves.

Uprooted by war, some Ukrainians in the UK now face homelessness alone | CNN

It starts with a raised eyebrow and ends with a door slammed shut. A detail lost in translation, an awkward silence followed by a polite request to pack your bags. How some Ukrainian refugees have been asked to leave by their British hosts.

edition.cnn.com

 

[bluescreen]

Who could possibly have foreseen that this policy would be an absolute failure?

Priti Patel’s plan to end Channel crossings in disarray as navy threatens to ‘walk away’

Official figures reveal that number of migrants crossing in small boats has doubled since military brought in

www.theguardian.com

 

[Calamity1971]

Who could possibly have foreseen that this policy would be an absolute failure?

Priti Patel’s plan to end Channel crossings in disarray as navy threatens to ‘walk away’

Official figures reveal that number of migrants crossing in small boats has doubled since military brought in

www.theguardian.com

Ive got my box set to record the committee on Wednesday.

 

[bluescreen]

Ive got my box set to record the committee on Wednesday.

James Heappey is set to be questioned by the home affairs select committee on Tuesday. .

 

[Calamity1971]

James Heappey is set to be questioned by the home affairs select committee on Tuesday. .

Busy week.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Oh ffs, I know we've heard hints of this before, but.. (At least it seems to apply to England and Wales only.)

MSN

www.msn.com

The latest crackdown on drug use in society would also see casual users of cocaine and cannabis facing fines and having to attend drug courses.

The government says the tougher penalties would help tackle the "scourge" of substance abuse in society.

It comes as recent statistics show over three million people in England and Wales in 2019/20 reported using drugs in the last year.

The proposals have been published in a white paper entitled "Swift, Certain, Tough. New Consequences for Drug Possession".

The escalating tougher penalties that recreational drugs users in England and Wales could face include:

• First-time offenders required to pay for and attend a drug awareness course

• If first-time offenders do not attend a course, they must pay an increased Fixed Penalty Notice or face prosecution

• Those found using drugs for a second time would be given a caution, sent on a further drug awareness course and would face a period of mandatory, random drug testing for a period of up to three months.

• Offenders caught for a third time would likely to be charged and upon conviction, as part of a civil court order, could be subject to an exclusion order banning them from a specific location like a nightclub.

• Third-time offenders could also be given a drug tag monitoring their usage, and see their passports and driving licences confiscated.

'Rising trend of substance use in society'

The proposals, which follow the publication of the 10-year drugs strategy in December, will be subject to a 12-week public consultation.

Home Secretary Priti Patel said the move shows the government is "cracking down on drug use".

"Drugs are a scourge across society. They devastate lives and tear communities apart," Ms Patel said.

"Drug misuse puts lives at risk, fuels criminality and serious and violent crime and also results in the grotesque exploitation of young, vulnerable people."

"In line with our strategy to tackle the harmful consequences of drugs, we aim to reverse the rising trend of substance use in society, to protect the public from the harm and violence of drug misuse," she added.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

Is she ever going to have an original thought? What does Victoria Atkins have to say about this?

 

[alex_]

Oh ffs, I know we've heard hints of this before, but.. (At least it seems to apply to England and Wales only.)

MSN

www.msn.com

Pretty sure they have to catch them first.

With the current destruction of the criminal justice system, few people get caught and fewer get prosecuted.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I am keeping my fingers crossed that she'll be dropped from the cabinet soon, or at least dumped as home secretary.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

I am keeping my fingers crossed that she'll be dropped from the cabinet soon, or at least dumped as home secretary.

I don't think the Tories are going to get any less right wing. She'll have plenty of inside support for her crazy policies. If she goes, she'll be replaced by someone equally despicable.

I'd bet Starmer wouldn't challenge any of this shit.

 

[alex_]

I don't think the Tories are going to get any less right wing. She'll have plenty of inside support for her crazy policies. If she goes, she'll be replaced by someone equally despicable.

I'd bet Starmer wouldn't challenge any of this shit.

It’s possible that eventually they will want policies which achieve their stated objective - rather than just the unstated objective of sympathetic daily heil coverage.

 

[Pickman's model]

I don't think the Tories are going to get any less right wing. She'll have plenty of inside support for her crazy policies. If she goes, she'll be replaced by someone equally despicable.

I'd bet Starmer wouldn't challenge any of this shit.

come come, shammer will challenge it and say how much more efficiently he'd be enforcing the tory policies were he on the government benches

 

[Spandex]

I am keeping my fingers crossed that she'll be dropped from the cabinet soon, or at least dumped as home secretary.

I'm assuming she'll be gone as Home Secretary before the end of September, before she can implement it, which makes this proposal just her leaving a high water mark of cuntery to be measured against.

Which doesn't mean whoever replaces her won't denounce her as a social justice warrior and call for public beheadings of anyone with an unnatural smile or a hazy look in their eye, as they seek to position themselves as a proper hardliner.

 

[existentialist]

Pretty sure they have to catch them first.

With the current destruction of the criminal justice system, few people get caught and fewer get prosecuted.

Not to mention that there will come a point where magistrates, and possibly even police officers, will say "this is ridiculously disproportionate", and stop going after at least certain groups of those being hauled before them under this legislation.

I think this is a harbinger of a seriously dangerous mindset in the HO, and we're definitely into Niemoller territory here: if this one gets through, who knows what the next bit of illiberal bullshit will be?

 

[NoXion]

"Drugs ruin lives, and to prove it we're going to smack you around with all kinds of authoritarian bullshit if we catch you using them"

Evil fucking idiots.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

Drugs ruin lives and cannabis has no medical benefit. Which is why the UK is the biggest producer of medical weed in the world.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Much of The rest of the world is moving in the same direction on drugs, apart from plucky newly independent btitin that is charting a solo course to the land of authoritarian cuntery