Westminstenders: Put Your Faith In The Home Office

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Because there doesn't seem to be a new thread yet. I'm no RTB or any of you other experts, but these threads need to keep going.

Give me a couple weeks and I'll be able to post cat placemarks!

Passports of course bear photos - so a HO clerk doesn't have to guess the colour of a person's skin.

I do wish that an investigative journalist would get onto this.

This sadly is what Brexit has engendered in some people. Yet Leavers on these threads swear blind that Brexit wasn't about immigration.

Where incidentally are the Leavers' comments on the Australian Food standards? Why are they not up in arms - Brexit was going to make us improve our standards.

The writers of that anonymous letter are vile xenophobes who feel empowered by Brexshit.

There was a similar incident in a block of flats in Norwich a few years ago. It really isn't a matter of a few rotten apples amid the mass of utterly respectable Leavers who were only thinking of the ECJ - for most of them it was absolutely about xenophobia. I joined these threads because the day after the Referendum, my DDs were told to 'fuck off back home' at their school - and not by just one fellow student. Not that it matters, but they were bloody born here.

Speaking of dinosaurs, DUP in crisis tonight.

Doesn’t bode well for an upsurge in violence in NI , and yet Kate Hoey sees fit to hold rallies over the protocol just to inflame things even more.

To quote a comment I read, ‘all these years it was Irish Nationalism that was feared in NI when it should have been English Nationalism. ‘

@Peregrina

This sadly is what Brexit has engendered in some people. Yet Leavers on these threads swear blind that Brexit wasn't about immigration.

Where incidentally are the Leavers' comments on the Australian Food standards? Why are they not up in arms - Brexit was going to make us improve our standards.

a friend of mine received a 'go home polish scum' card in the letterbox.

Poots didn't last long, did he?

Potty Poots

"His time as leader lasted the same amount of time he thinks the Earth has been in existence."

"Thank you, next..."

Yet again the DUP showing inability to engage with reality.
The Irish Language Act is the latest in a long list of hills for them to die on. They are still facing the prospect of annihilation at the polls and still believe rearranging the deckchairs will make everything better.

The big question is whether the vacuum created by the spontaneous combustion of the DUP will be filled by moderate unionism capable of looking forward or diehards with a fondness for taking grievances to the street.

Good to see the LD's take the Tory safe seat of Chesham and Amersham, 30pt swing too :)

Jasjas yes, I have just woken up to that bit of news - put a smile on my face.

Yes, this result put a smile on my face too. Although I then thought that one swallow does not make a summer.

I think a better win than the LDS hoped for. Reasons - people fed up with Johnson's lies, Jenrick's planning nonsense and HS2. Plus the feeling that as a 'pig in a blue rosette' seat, they had been neglected in favour of the Red Wall. Who knows whether Johnson turning up to canvass was an asset or a liability?

Kit Malthouse was declaring that the Tories did well in the recent local elections - but in a lot of S E England, the Tories lost quite a good number of seats. But they crowed about how badly Labour was doing.

Just to say, I also think those letters to the families in York are vile and have no place in our society. I welcome immigration, but with a fairer system. One that give all nationalities equal chance to come and work here.
Clearly some people who voted leave are racist, but not all of us.

The big question is whether the vacuum created by the spontaneous combustion of the DUP will be filled by moderate unionism capable of looking forward or diehards with a fondness for taking grievances to the street. (Mathanxiety)

I suspect that it will be a mix of the two. The worrying "unknown" is what the proportions will be Obviously the hope is that it will mostly be the moderates, but with Brexit/the NIP, and eejits like Kate Hoey stirring up trouble, who knows?

At least with Biden in charge, the UK government can't try and pull the wool over the eyes of the US administration and whine that it's the EU's fault that the hard won GFA is at risk.

Yellow

Very small winning margin, didn't take many racists to swing the vote.

However, its done now, spilt milk an all that.

Lets see if people will want to come here, so many other countries also need young workers.

We of course have just signed a deal to encourage our young workers to go to Australia.

I have also read elsewhere that the new Australia deal has a clause which protects Indian basmati rice growers. So that's good of Johnson - protect Indian farmers but tell British ones to go hang.

yellowspanner it's the old adage: Not all Leave voters are racist, but all racists who voted, voted Leave. With the margin so small, the contribution of racism and xenophobia to the outcome was disproportionate. And that is sad.

Anniversary present for everyone.

Politico podcast this week is called 'How To Spin A Referendum' and interviews the men behind each side's spin campaign five years on.

www.politico.eu/westminster-insider-podcast/

@Peregrina

I have also read elsewhere that the new Australia deal has a clause which protects Indian basmati rice growers. So that's good of Johnson - protect Indian farmers but tell British ones to go hang.

... ....not that the WM Government has deigned to share the detail with anyone beyond its own coterie of advisers

To be fair (), at this stage it is essentially just a PR stunt MOU to prove that world beating UK can sign deals half way around the world but when will Parliament get to see the detail?

At least in that supposedly undemocratic EU, both all the constituent nations and the EU Parliament have to ratify any trade deals

In contrast, the constituent nations of the UK aren't allowed any meaningful involvement, let alone a veto

and people wonder why many Scots would prefer to be part of the EU than the UK

Farming Today - Aus trade deal - “betrayal…is really the word”

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000x0wf

Good Law Project
@GoodLawProject
"Just when you think you've seen it all. 'Boris Johnson is to strip the Electoral Commission of the power to prosecute law-breaking'. Government claims it...'wastes public money'

There is nothing they can't get away with.

It's OK though, our food & drink exports have only fallen by £2 billion in the first quarter, after Brexshit...

Kate Hoey sounding as unhinged as ever...

So the eejit Brexiter is still pursuing the trope that Ireland should follow the UK out of the EU

....just because it would solve the UK's self-inflicted problems with maintaining the letter and spirit of the GFA doesn't mean that Ireland are going to agree with her "logic"

Especially as Ireland has benefited from its EU membership, is no longer dependent on the UK as its main market probably a cardinal sin as far as Hoey is concerned and is proud of the fact that it is a net contributor to rather than beneficiary of the EU coffers, because that demonstrates how far they have come. Why would they go backwards?

Contrary to what she claims, that would not be logical She really is deluded