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View DanH's Profile DanH Flag SW2 16 Apr 18 7.57pm Send a Private Message to DanH Add DanH as a friend

Fair play to Amber Rudd for seemingly acting quickly to rectify this today but you have to ask serious questions of a department that can f*ck up quite this spectacularly. Particularly damning words from Rudd towards her own department, which just so happened to be run by Theresa May prior to that. Anyone know what happened to her?

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croydon proud Flag Any european country i fancy! 16 Apr 18 8.57pm

Originally posted by DanH

Fair play to Amber Rudd for seemingly acting quickly to rectify this today but you have to ask serious questions of a department that can f*ck up quite this spectacularly. Particularly damning words from Rudd towards her own department, which just so happened to be run by Theresa May prior to that. Anyone know what happened to her?

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She went on to lead the con party !

 

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View Y Ddraig Goch's Profile Y Ddraig Goch Flag In The Crowd 16 Apr 18 10.38pm Send a Private Message to Y Ddraig Goch Add Y Ddraig Goch as a friend

What has happened is an absolute disgrace. I’m not sure it is necessarily political but once the Tories became aware they should have reacted quicker.

We really are turning in to a pretty unpleasant nation.

 


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View CambridgeEagle's Profile CambridgeEagle Flag Sydenham 17 Apr 18 8.55am Send a Private Message to CambridgeEagle Add CambridgeEagle as a friend

Originally posted by Y Ddraig Goch

What has happened is an absolute disgrace. I’m not sure it is necessarily political but once the Tories became aware they should have reacted quicker.

We really are turning in to a pretty unpleasant nation.

I quite agree. It's embarrassing and sickening. You have to wonder what must be going through these people's heads in the Home Office when they are dealing with people who have clearly been legally in the UK and contributing to society for over 50 years in some cases. Jobsworths conditioned by callous and pig-headed policies from on high. May should come out and apologise to those affected ASAP.

 

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View CambridgeEagle's Profile CambridgeEagle Flag Sydenham 17 Apr 18 8.56am Send a Private Message to CambridgeEagle Add CambridgeEagle as a friend

Originally posted by Y Ddraig Goch

What has happened is an absolute disgrace. I’m not sure it is necessarily political but once the Tories became aware they should have reacted quicker.

We really are turning in to a pretty unpleasant nation.

Small details of official callousness are particularly upsetting. Judy Griffith, 63, who came from Barbados in 1963 when she was nine, had been trying to sort out her status for years, and queued for five hours in a Home Office processing centre on 27 December, to be told that, although officials believed her claim was valid, she was “not on the system”. She received a letter in January stating that new checks needed to be made, adding: “Please note it is no longer possible to make an enquiry in person. Please telephone the number on this letter in the first instance if you need to contact us.” There was no telephone number on the letter.

 

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View Stirlingsays's Profile Stirlingsays Flag 17 Apr 18 9.31am Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

Originally posted by Y Ddraig Goch

What has happened is an absolute disgrace. I’m not sure it is necessarily political but once the Tories became aware they should have reacted quicker.

We really are turning in to a pretty unpleasant nation.

? This is a decades old oversight.

We are turning into a more hyperbolic nation similar to the US. Where touchy feely virtue signalling matters more than reasoned analysis.

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View Midlands Eagle's Profile Midlands Eagle Flag 17 Apr 18 10.13am Send a Private Message to Midlands Eagle Add Midlands Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by CambridgeEagle

You have to wonder what must be going through these people's heads in the Home Office when they are dealing with people who have clearly been legally in the UK and contributing to society for over 50 years in some cases.

I think that part of the problem is that Home Office individuals view them as numbers and statistics and not as people

 

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View Midlands Eagle's Profile Midlands Eagle Flag 17 Apr 18 10.16am Send a Private Message to Midlands Eagle Add Midlands Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by CambridgeEagle

Small details of official callousness are particularly upsetting. Judy Griffith, 63, who came from Barbados in 1963 when she was nine, had been trying to sort out her status for years, and queued for five hours in a Home Office processing centre on 27 December, to be told that, although officials believed her claim was valid, she was “not on the system”.

I hadn't read about that particular case but surely if she had been in the UK for 54 years there must be records of her employment with HMRC

 

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View Stuk's Profile Stuk Flag Top half 17 Apr 18 12.43pm Send a Private Message to Stuk Add Stuk as a friend

Whilst it should never have happened and it's good that she has put a stop on this, while providing cost free help to rectify it, would an ID card system not have resolved it? They always seem to be rejected on the basis that they'll be unfair to people who shouldn't actually be here.

The PM has also apologised now too.

At least it didn't stop David Lammy from letting facts get in the way of his indignation.

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Optimistic as ever

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View Stuk's Profile Stuk Flag Top half 17 Apr 18 12.46pm Send a Private Message to Stuk Add Stuk as a friend

That "guide" was produced by Jamaica, not by the Home Office.

 


Optimistic as ever

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View Jacey's Profile Jacey Flag 17 Apr 18 1.01pm Send a Private Message to Jacey Add Jacey as a friend

With Windrush,cannot imagine how under developed and quiet Croydon would be.

Who on earth would be helping to run our public services if it were not for Windrush??

 

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Yellow Card - User has been warned of conduct on the messageboards View Hrolf The Ganger's Profile Hrolf The Ganger Flag 17 Apr 18 2.30pm Send a Private Message to Hrolf The Ganger Add Hrolf The Ganger as a friend

Originally posted by Jacey

With Windrush,cannot imagine how under developed and quiet Croydon would be.

Who on earth would be helping to run our public services if it were not for Windrush??

Are you trying to say that Croydon is better now than in 1958 or '68 or '78? You have to be joking.


 

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