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It may be a bit weird for a Tory to get their head around, but we don't all take other people's work and claim it as our own.
zzr45
#MURDERINGSCUM
The dog or the residual?
Oh dear. Keni Badenoch Tory MP for Saffron Walden, apologises over hacking into Harriet Harman's website. She apologises, only after she was found out, because it could have ended her lucrative parliamentary career. Why has it taken her 10 years to apologise and why didn't she aplogise immediately when she was elected in 2017? If this had been a Labour MP the state controlled BBC and the Tories would have demanded they should resign or censored in parliament.
Harriet Harman accepts Tory MP Kemi Badenoch's hacking apology
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Image captionMs Harman says she received a written apology from the Saffron Walden MP
Labour's Harriet Harman says she has accepted an apology from a Conservative MP for hacking into her website.
Kemi Badenoch said her "foolish prank" took place more than 10 years ago before she was elected to Parliament.
The 38-year-old became MP for Saffron Walden in the 2017 election and in January was appointed the Conservative Party's vice-chairwoman for candidates.
Former minister for women Ms Harman said on Twitter she had received a written apology from Mrs Badenoch.
Harriet Harman
✔@HarrietHarman
.@KemiBadenoch has written to me apologising. I have accepted her apology.
9:26 PM - Apr 8, 2018
End of Twitter post by @HarrietHarman
Mrs Badenoch had revealed details of the incident in a lighthearted filmed interview with the Core Politics website.
When asked what the "naughtiest" thing she had ever done was, Mrs Badenoch said: "About 10 years ago I hacked into... a Labour MP's website and I changed all the stuff in there to say nice things about Tories."
Mrs Badenoch told the Mail on Sunday, which had obtained footage of the interview, it was "a foolish prank over a decade ago, for which I apologise".
The newspaper quoted an anonymous Tory HQ source who said Mrs Badenoch had gained access to Ms Harman's website by guessing a password rather than "real hacking".
Ms Harman served as minister for women between 1997 and 2010 under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and is a former deputy leader of the Labour Party".
Tory HQ it was not 'real hacking'. The apologists for her spreading fake news.
Harriet Harman accepts Tory MP Kemi Badenoch's hacking apology
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Image captionMs Harman says she received a written apology from the Saffron Walden MP
Labour's Harriet Harman says she has accepted an apology from a Conservative MP for hacking into her website.
Kemi Badenoch said her "foolish prank" took place more than 10 years ago before she was elected to Parliament.
The 38-year-old became MP for Saffron Walden in the 2017 election and in January was appointed the Conservative Party's vice-chairwoman for candidates.
Former minister for women Ms Harman said on Twitter she had received a written apology from Mrs Badenoch.
Harriet Harman
✔@HarrietHarman
.@KemiBadenoch has written to me apologising. I have accepted her apology.
9:26 PM - Apr 8, 2018
End of Twitter post by @HarrietHarman
Mrs Badenoch had revealed details of the incident in a lighthearted filmed interview with the Core Politics website.
When asked what the "naughtiest" thing she had ever done was, Mrs Badenoch said: "About 10 years ago I hacked into... a Labour MP's website and I changed all the stuff in there to say nice things about Tories."
Mrs Badenoch told the Mail on Sunday, which had obtained footage of the interview, it was "a foolish prank over a decade ago, for which I apologise".
The newspaper quoted an anonymous Tory HQ source who said Mrs Badenoch had gained access to Ms Harman's website by guessing a password rather than "real hacking".
Ms Harman served as minister for women between 1997 and 2010 under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and is a former deputy leader of the Labour Party".
Tory HQ it was not 'real hacking'. The apologists for her spreading fake news.
Amber Rudd up to her neck in the proverbial. The rise in violent crime is 'not due to police cuts' says our Amber, Home Office minister.
Exclusive Police cuts ‘likely contributed’ to violent crime rise Oh yes it is says the Home Office research.
But of course Amber didn't see the report. Oh no it isn't because 'I never saw the report'
Amber Rudd denies seeing leaked Home Office report
The Tory pantomime show keeps rumbling on. Corbyn should demand a vote of no confidence in these imbecilic incompetents.
Exclusive Police cuts ‘likely contributed’ to violent crime rise Oh yes it is says the Home Office research.
But of course Amber didn't see the report. Oh no it isn't because 'I never saw the report'
Amber Rudd denies seeing leaked Home Office report
The Tory pantomime show keeps rumbling on. Corbyn should demand a vote of no confidence in these imbecilic incompetents.
zzr45
#MURDERINGSCUM
Delivered without a trace of irony. This government is the pits, but pretending Wurzel and pals would do any better is delusional at best.
Now we know why the Novichok - Putin/the Kremlin did it - big Goebbels lies was launched by the desperate Tories. When all is falling apart Brexit negotiations, border on the island of Ireland, rise in violent crime, NHS crisis, etc. talk war war.
"Rudd refused to be drawn on whether the government would launch an attack without a parliamentary vote.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said in February that Britain should consider joining military action against Assad’s regime if there is fresh “incontrovertible” evidence he has used chemical weapons against his own people.
Asked if the government was considering limited military action, Rudd told Today: “The foreign secretary is right in his comments. The UN Security Council is of course meeting today.
“What we have seen is another horrific piece of activity in Syria, hurting children and families, and we need to make sure we have a strong international response.”
Israeli war planes have bombed a Syrian regime airbase east of the city of Homs, two days after a chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town outside Damascus drew international outrage".
And here was me think parliamentary democracy rules supreme. The warmongers have never forgave parliament for voting not to have UK forces involved in Syria.
"Influential Tory backbenchers are urging the government to launch some form of attack against Syria without a parliamentary vote following the chemical attack on Douma.
Tom Tugendhat, chair of the foreign affairs select committee, tweeted: “standing by as kids are gassed isn’t pacifism, it’s tolerating evil”.
Tom Tugendhat@TomTugendhat
https://twitter.com/TomTugendhat/status/983123180586962944
This is why @UN agreed the 2005 Responsibility to Protect. This is why @ICRC Geneva Conventions added the 1925 Gas Protocol. This is why @JoCox @Alison_McGovern and I argued there are legitimate uses of force. Standing by as kids are gassed isn’t pacifism, it’s tolerating evil. https://twitter.com/skynews/status/982924404735623169 …
12:23 AM - Apr 9, 2018
And writing in the Telegraph Johnny Mercer, who like Tugenhat is a former army officer, said:
We have reached such a fetid low post-Iraq that there is now an expectation that any foreign action will go through a vote in parliament. This is a uniquely useless way of conducting foreign policy, and in almost one action emasculates us on the world stage...
Every individual inside Syria involved in the chemical weapons decision-making cycle should be targeted (not always with violence). The bases they launch from should be levelled. Assad (who should have been dead long ago) doesn’t read our newspapers; so statements decrying him are largely irrelevant. If warfare is changing, then we damn well change with it".
"Rudd refused to be drawn on whether the government would launch an attack without a parliamentary vote.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said in February that Britain should consider joining military action against Assad’s regime if there is fresh “incontrovertible” evidence he has used chemical weapons against his own people.
Asked if the government was considering limited military action, Rudd told Today: “The foreign secretary is right in his comments. The UN Security Council is of course meeting today.
“What we have seen is another horrific piece of activity in Syria, hurting children and families, and we need to make sure we have a strong international response.”
Israeli war planes have bombed a Syrian regime airbase east of the city of Homs, two days after a chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town outside Damascus drew international outrage".
And here was me think parliamentary democracy rules supreme. The warmongers have never forgave parliament for voting not to have UK forces involved in Syria.
"Influential Tory backbenchers are urging the government to launch some form of attack against Syria without a parliamentary vote following the chemical attack on Douma.
Tom Tugendhat, chair of the foreign affairs select committee, tweeted: “standing by as kids are gassed isn’t pacifism, it’s tolerating evil”.
Tom Tugendhat@TomTugendhat
https://twitter.com/TomTugendhat/status/983123180586962944
This is why @UN agreed the 2005 Responsibility to Protect. This is why @ICRC Geneva Conventions added the 1925 Gas Protocol. This is why @JoCox @Alison_McGovern and I argued there are legitimate uses of force. Standing by as kids are gassed isn’t pacifism, it’s tolerating evil. https://twitter.com/skynews/status/982924404735623169 …
12:23 AM - Apr 9, 2018
And writing in the Telegraph Johnny Mercer, who like Tugenhat is a former army officer, said:
We have reached such a fetid low post-Iraq that there is now an expectation that any foreign action will go through a vote in parliament. This is a uniquely useless way of conducting foreign policy, and in almost one action emasculates us on the world stage...
Every individual inside Syria involved in the chemical weapons decision-making cycle should be targeted (not always with violence). The bases they launch from should be levelled. Assad (who should have been dead long ago) doesn’t read our newspapers; so statements decrying him are largely irrelevant. If warfare is changing, then we damn well change with it".
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A primary school class of 10 years olds would do a better job than this incompetent lot.
Man living in UK for 56 years loses job over immigration papers
Michael Braithwaite, a special needs assistant, was told he could not be employed at school as he did not have biometric card
Amelia Gentleman
@ameliagentleman
Mon 9 Apr 2018 15.35 BSTLast modified on Mon 9 Apr 2018 15.53 BST
Braithwaite had worked at a north London primary school for more than 15 years. Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian
An experienced special needs teaching assistant lost his job after his employers ruled that he was an illegal immigrant, despite the fact he has lived in the UK for more than 50 years.
Michael Braithwaite, who arrived in Britain from Barbados in 1961, had worked at a north London primary school for over 15 years when a routine check on his immigration status revealed he did not have an up-to-date identity document.
The unexpected immigration difficulties have pushed him close to a mental breakdown. “It made me feel like I was an alien. I almost fell apart with the stress,” he said.
Braithwaite arrived in London with his family when he was nine, when his father moved to work for the Post Office, and he has lived in the UK since. He had always assumed he was British, having attended primary school and secondary school here, and having worked continuously since leaving school. He married in London and has three British children and five grandchildren.
“I never applied for a British passport. We thought we were British,” he said. Because he arrived in the UK before 1973 he has an automatic right to remain, but the introduction of the “hostile environment” policy by Theresa May as home secretary in 2013 has required employers, the NHS, Jobcentre staff and landlords to run checks for papers, causing problems for people who do not have documentary proof of their right to live in the UK.
Michael Braithwaite with his one-year-old granddaughter Sieena Ray. Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian
Braithwaite is one of an emerging group of people who were born in Commonwealth countries and arrived in the UK as children who have discovered half a century later that they have serious and hard to fix immigration problems. Lawyers working for people in this situation say the level of documentary proof required by the Home Office is extremely high, with officials requesting to see a minimum of one, but preferably four, pieces of documentary evidence for every year spent in the UK. Often GP surgeries and schools that might have been able to provide documentary proof of their residence have since closed, and records destroyed.
Public anger over the emerging problem is rising. Patrick Vernon, editor of Black History Month magazine, has launched a petition calling on the Home Office to reduce the high burden of proof required from Windrush generation settlers who arrived from the Caribbean in the UK as children. “As we celebrate the 70th anniversary of Windrush, this creates a sour message about whether we are valued and respected. A lot of people are feeling very upset,” he said.
Fundraising efforts to help pay for cancer treatment for Albert Thompson (not his real name) who is in a similar situation to Braithwaite, raised more than £24,000 in five days. Thompson arrived from Jamaica as a teenager and has lived and worked in the UK continuously for 44 years but was denied NHS radiotherapy for prostate cancer last November.
Braithwaite was distraught at losing his job. “I had a good rapport with the children. The head said I was an asset to the school, but the HR department said I was illegal because I didn’t have a biometric card,” he said. A biometric card is a residence permit issued to non-British residents, with details of their immigration status. “I had no idea what a biometric card was. I had no idea there was a need to naturalise.”
He began attempting to untangle his immigration situation in 2016 when he first understood there was a problem. When it proved difficult to resolve quickly, he lost his job in February 2017. His lawyer said Home Office records showed he had the right to be in the UK, but officials repeatedly failed to issue him with documents to reflect this.
The latest letter from the Home Office, sent this month, told him he needed to provide further documentary evidence to show he was in the UK before 1973.
Guy Hewitt, the high commissioner for Barbados to the UK, said he would be “raising the case of his unjust treatment directly with the UK authorities”.
Highlighting the contribution that West Indian migrants made in the post-second world war era to the building of modern Britain, and given “the UK’s commitment to the Commonwealth”, Hewitt called on the government “to act with urgency and compassion to find a solution to the current treatment of some elderly, Caribbean-born, UK-residents as ‘illegal immigrants’ as a result of their irregular status”. He said such treatment exposed them to the risk of “destitution and detention, along with the possibility of deportation”.
A Home Office spokesperson said: “We will be in touch with Mr Braithwaite very soon to assure him that we are looking to resolve his case as soon as possible and issue him with documentation confirming his status here. We value the contribution made by Commonwealth citizens who have made a life in the UK.”
Enny Choudhury, Braithwaite’s lawyer, from the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, said: “For almost one year the Home Office has failed to issue the biometric card, without which he cannot work or move on with his life, causing uncertainty and distress.”
Michael Braithwaite, a special needs assistant, was told he could not be employed at school as he did not have biometric card
Amelia Gentleman
@ameliagentleman
Mon 9 Apr 2018 15.35 BSTLast modified on Mon 9 Apr 2018 15.53 BST
Braithwaite had worked at a north London primary school for more than 15 years. Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian
An experienced special needs teaching assistant lost his job after his employers ruled that he was an illegal immigrant, despite the fact he has lived in the UK for more than 50 years.
Michael Braithwaite, who arrived in Britain from Barbados in 1961, had worked at a north London primary school for over 15 years when a routine check on his immigration status revealed he did not have an up-to-date identity document.
The unexpected immigration difficulties have pushed him close to a mental breakdown. “It made me feel like I was an alien. I almost fell apart with the stress,” he said.
Braithwaite arrived in London with his family when he was nine, when his father moved to work for the Post Office, and he has lived in the UK since. He had always assumed he was British, having attended primary school and secondary school here, and having worked continuously since leaving school. He married in London and has three British children and five grandchildren.
“I never applied for a British passport. We thought we were British,” he said. Because he arrived in the UK before 1973 he has an automatic right to remain, but the introduction of the “hostile environment” policy by Theresa May as home secretary in 2013 has required employers, the NHS, Jobcentre staff and landlords to run checks for papers, causing problems for people who do not have documentary proof of their right to live in the UK.
Michael Braithwaite with his one-year-old granddaughter Sieena Ray. Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian
Braithwaite is one of an emerging group of people who were born in Commonwealth countries and arrived in the UK as children who have discovered half a century later that they have serious and hard to fix immigration problems. Lawyers working for people in this situation say the level of documentary proof required by the Home Office is extremely high, with officials requesting to see a minimum of one, but preferably four, pieces of documentary evidence for every year spent in the UK. Often GP surgeries and schools that might have been able to provide documentary proof of their residence have since closed, and records destroyed.
Public anger over the emerging problem is rising. Patrick Vernon, editor of Black History Month magazine, has launched a petition calling on the Home Office to reduce the high burden of proof required from Windrush generation settlers who arrived from the Caribbean in the UK as children. “As we celebrate the 70th anniversary of Windrush, this creates a sour message about whether we are valued and respected. A lot of people are feeling very upset,” he said.
Fundraising efforts to help pay for cancer treatment for Albert Thompson (not his real name) who is in a similar situation to Braithwaite, raised more than £24,000 in five days. Thompson arrived from Jamaica as a teenager and has lived and worked in the UK continuously for 44 years but was denied NHS radiotherapy for prostate cancer last November.
Braithwaite was distraught at losing his job. “I had a good rapport with the children. The head said I was an asset to the school, but the HR department said I was illegal because I didn’t have a biometric card,” he said. A biometric card is a residence permit issued to non-British residents, with details of their immigration status. “I had no idea what a biometric card was. I had no idea there was a need to naturalise.”
He began attempting to untangle his immigration situation in 2016 when he first understood there was a problem. When it proved difficult to resolve quickly, he lost his job in February 2017. His lawyer said Home Office records showed he had the right to be in the UK, but officials repeatedly failed to issue him with documents to reflect this.
The latest letter from the Home Office, sent this month, told him he needed to provide further documentary evidence to show he was in the UK before 1973.
Guy Hewitt, the high commissioner for Barbados to the UK, said he would be “raising the case of his unjust treatment directly with the UK authorities”.
Highlighting the contribution that West Indian migrants made in the post-second world war era to the building of modern Britain, and given “the UK’s commitment to the Commonwealth”, Hewitt called on the government “to act with urgency and compassion to find a solution to the current treatment of some elderly, Caribbean-born, UK-residents as ‘illegal immigrants’ as a result of their irregular status”. He said such treatment exposed them to the risk of “destitution and detention, along with the possibility of deportation”.
A Home Office spokesperson said: “We will be in touch with Mr Braithwaite very soon to assure him that we are looking to resolve his case as soon as possible and issue him with documentation confirming his status here. We value the contribution made by Commonwealth citizens who have made a life in the UK.”
Enny Choudhury, Braithwaite’s lawyer, from the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, said: “For almost one year the Home Office has failed to issue the biometric card, without which he cannot work or move on with his life, causing uncertainty and distress.”
Bafflement over Tory MP's admission she hacked Harriet Harman's website
"Former hacktivists have reacted with bafflement after the Conservative MP Kemi Badenoch admitted that she hacked Harriet Harman’s website in 2008.
Badenoch confessed to the hack, which carried a jail sentence of up to five years at the time she acted, in response to a question about the “naughtiest” thing she had done.
For other politically motivated hackers, breaching the Computer Misuse Act has had serious consequences.
“Considering others have been prosecuted for similar, juvenile attacks on websites, I’ll be curious to see if the law will be applied equally in this case,” said Mustafa Al-Bassam, a former member of the hacking collective LulzSec. When he was 16, Bassam was given a 20-month suspended sentence for breaching the CMA as part of the group’s campaign.
“This is a situation where someone has straight-up admitted to a crime on TV, the police have an easy job. If a Conservative MP can admit to a computer crime on television and get away with it, then that says the law is not being enforced equally in the UK,” he said. Bassam, who is now a computer scientist at UCL, filed a crime report to the national cyber crime reporting centre on Sunday".
I wonder when she will hand herself in after committing a crime.
"Former hacktivists have reacted with bafflement after the Conservative MP Kemi Badenoch admitted that she hacked Harriet Harman’s website in 2008.
Badenoch confessed to the hack, which carried a jail sentence of up to five years at the time she acted, in response to a question about the “naughtiest” thing she had done.
For other politically motivated hackers, breaching the Computer Misuse Act has had serious consequences.
“Considering others have been prosecuted for similar, juvenile attacks on websites, I’ll be curious to see if the law will be applied equally in this case,” said Mustafa Al-Bassam, a former member of the hacking collective LulzSec. When he was 16, Bassam was given a 20-month suspended sentence for breaching the CMA as part of the group’s campaign.
“This is a situation where someone has straight-up admitted to a crime on TV, the police have an easy job. If a Conservative MP can admit to a computer crime on television and get away with it, then that says the law is not being enforced equally in the UK,” he said. Bassam, who is now a computer scientist at UCL, filed a crime report to the national cyber crime reporting centre on Sunday".
I wonder when she will hand herself in after committing a crime.
Jib in lad
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Didn't know where to put this, food for thought like.
roydo
in memoriam - 1965-2024
In a thread lobbing stuff at Tories, I would suggest that is way beyond even the most rabid anti Tory accusation.
With respect.
Unless the inference is that the attack was faked. And even then not exactly sure if my first sentence is wrong even then.
dholliday
deconstructed rep
Has nowt to do with the Tories directly, but there is deffo something awfully fishy about the timing & placement of said attacks.
Any half-thorough analysis of the Syria tactical situation will surmise that Assad likely hasn't authored any of these chemical attacks. As to who did, and to what end...well, that's quite an interesting discussion.
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