Jacob Rees-Mogg And Windrush Generation

[Tefal]

This is definitely a **** up and reasonably big one but the hyperbole is a bit ridiculous. Big organisations and Government departments are likely to make big mistakes because of the size and complexity of the tasks they carry out. The business I work in employs a few thousand in the UK and about 250 at my location we make mistakes not because the management are hate filled morons but because they have large numbers of complex tasks. Now scale that up to the Home Office or the Department for Work and Pensions etc. And regrettable mistakes are going to happen. We smash organisations that don't follow the rules and then smash others that follow the rules too rigourously. No one seems to be suggesting that this has happened because their is genuine a desire to punish Commonwealth immigrants from 60+ years ago but rather that rules have been applied cack handedly and without sympathy. It is a apparently a national day of shame that some civil servants screwed up, where do escalate from there when we found something genuinely deplorable has happened?

i suppose you have to ask why over the course of 50 years some of them bothered to get paper work?

its gotta be a pretty small % that never bothered to get a pasport?

 

[Hotwired]

This basically shows how incompetent our MP's have become, they've been comfily dictated to by the EU for so long that when it comes to solving a simple problem like this they all just look at each with blank faces. Then people wonder why they're all terrified of leaving the EU and having the country stand on its own two feet.

Yes I see what you're trying to say.

Our government needs to become vastly bigger to take over the work the EU normally handles. We're not spending nearly enough on civil servants to do it right now.

It's a shame there's no savings in this lark.

 

[rare]

I like JRM, and on this he is right. Only a fool would argue otherwise.

 

[VincentHanna]

 

[Diddums]

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[chroniclard]

 

[Tony Edwards]

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The following while laughable isnt as funny.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...r-british-residents-being-deported-to-jamaica

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.

David Lammy, the Labour MP who spoke passionately about the Home Office’s treatment of the Windrush generation on Monday, said the document demonstrated the government’s “callous attitude towards thousands of people who have made their lives here and harks back to campaigns for ‘repatriation’ of migrants”.

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.

“How exactly can someone pretend to ‘be Jamaican’ when they are British and have lived here all their lives?” asked Lammy.

After the pamphlet came to light on Monday, he told the Guardian: “This document was published when Theresa May was home secretary, proudly promoting her hostile environments policy – the starting point for the injustices that we are seeing writ large for the Windrush generation.