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[zzr45]

On contrary, he is nothing of the sort, however, its good you think he is, as its underestimation of his skills as parliamentarian.

Corbyn sets traps everywhere, sometimes they take years to manifest, just as tsbubaki is showing you with Hansard record of the Immigration Bill debates.

So, as a member of the voting public I meant to be impressed by the fact I think that he lacks any depth? Ah. Okay.

Let’s be honest. Corbyn didn’t vote against it on a belief it would cause this situation per say. He says in his speech that it’s more based on the burden of proof being on the applicant. 99 times out of 100 that’s the exact approach that’s needed. This is a mess that should of be sorted decades ago, yet was seemingly allowed to let slip until it (rightly) became a huge issue. That failure lies seemingly in a failure to digitise those records, over zealous data protection practices and incompetence of the highest order.

 

[Jib in lad]

FFS have you read this kin disgraceful.

 

[Huyton Layne]

 

[peteblue]

Scary how Labour have always used colour to attempt political advantage, terrible really......

 

[hullefc]

UK deportees arrive today
by
Andre Williams
September 07, 2016

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More than 50 deportees, including one of who lived in the United Kingdom since age four, are scheduled to arrive in Jamaica today on the first charter flight with deportees from the UK since 2014.

THE STAR understands that many of those being deported have spent their formative years in the UK and have British families.

Flight plans are expected to continue amidst protest yesterday outside the Jamaican High Commission in southwest London to demonstrate against Jamaica's cooperation with a deportation flight.

According to www.theguardian.com, mothers, fathers and grandparents are among those due to be forcibly removed from the UK to Jamaica despite many of them having spent their entire adult lives in Britain. In some cases they are still fighting their immigration cases.



immigration enforcement
THE STAR gathered that critics have raised questions about the tactics used by Home Office immigration enforcement, which has been accused of "strategically" detaining individuals to fill the flight, without consideration of their circumstances. THE STAR also understands that it seemed that immigration enforcement was acting quickly in an effort to prevent those being removed from making legal challenges.

Our news team has learnt that most of who are being deported came to the UK as children but have failed to regularise their immigration status.

One of the Jamaican on the flight is Twane Morgan, 33, from Birmingham, a veteran of the British army who suffers from post-traumatic stress and bipolar disorder after two tours of Afghanistan.

His sister, Tenisha Morgan, told reporters he was detained a fortnight ago after he went to sign on at an immigration centre. He was served with a deportation order three years ago after a conviction for grievous bodily harm.

"When he goes to Jamaica he's going to be a madman on the street. I don't want to hear that my brother is dead. He's got no one in Jamaica, totally no one." Morgan reportedly said".

Deported due to May's 'hostile' immigration environment policy.

 

[hullefc]

The scandals engulfing the Tories are reminiscent of Tory sleaze in 1997.


Jeremy Hunt got 'bulk discount' on seven flats from Tory donor

Jeremy Hunt got 'bulk discount' on seven flats from Tory donor


Health secretary now under investigation over purchase of luxury apartments on south coast

Rob Davies and Rajeev Syal

Wed 18 Apr 2018 16.54 BSTLast modified on Wed 18 Apr 2018 22.00 BST



Jeremy Hunt has said the failure to declare was an ‘honest mistake’. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images
Jeremy Hunt received a “bulk discount” on seven flats bought from a Conservative donor, the Guardian can disclose, as parliament’s watchdog opened an investigation into the health secretary’s admission that he breached money laundering rules".

 

[tsubaki]

UK deportees arrive today
by
Andre Williams
September 07, 2016

• Photo

More than 50 deportees, including one of who lived in the United Kingdom since age four, are scheduled to arrive in Jamaica today on the first charter flight with deportees from the UK since 2014.

THE STAR understands that many of those being deported have spent their formative years in the UK and have British families.

Flight plans are expected to continue amidst protest yesterday outside the Jamaican High Commission in southwest London to demonstrate against Jamaica's cooperation with a deportation flight.

According to www.theguardian.com, mothers, fathers and grandparents are among those due to be forcibly removed from the UK to Jamaica despite many of them having spent their entire adult lives in Britain. In some cases they are still fighting their immigration cases.



immigration enforcement
THE STAR gathered that critics have raised questions about the tactics used by Home Office immigration enforcement, which has been accused of "strategically" detaining individuals to fill the flight, without consideration of their circumstances. THE STAR also understands that it seemed that immigration enforcement was acting quickly in an effort to prevent those being removed from making legal challenges.

Our news team has learnt that most of who are being deported came to the UK as children but have failed to regularise their immigration status.

One of the Jamaican on the flight is Twane Morgan, 33, from Birmingham, a veteran of the British army who suffers from post-traumatic stress and bipolar disorder after two tours of Afghanistan.

His sister, Tenisha Morgan, told reporters he was detained a fortnight ago after he went to sign on at an immigration centre. He was served with a deportation order three years ago after a conviction for grievous bodily harm.

"When he goes to Jamaica he's going to be a madman on the street. I don't want to hear that my brother is dead. He's got no one in Jamaica, totally no one." Morgan reportedly said".

Deported due to May's 'hostile' immigration environment policy.

TBF Twane Morgan is perhaps the worst example they could have picked there.

 

[tsubaki]

Scary how Labour have always used colour to attempt political advantage, terrible really......

even for you this is an absurd post

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

I bet the Tory party hates these Purdah periods of impartial reporting by the mass media for 6 weeks, they go into melt down!

 

[zzr45]

I bet the Tory party hates these Purdah periods of impartial reporting by the mass media for 6 weeks, they go into melt down!

Is this inspired by anything or is it just a string of non sequitur statements?

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Is this inspired by anything or is it just a string of non sequitur statements?

Inspiring and truthful as March 27th fell on Tusday, Tories cannot handle impartial media, its amsuing, the conent is not, just how they react to it...

 

[Fedlingen]

Scary how Labour have always used colour to attempt political advantage, terrible really......

That's a conservative ad used prior to the '64 election. How terrible of Labour.

 

[zzr45]

That's a conservative ad used prior to the '64 election. How terrible of Labour.

Hasn’t it been cleaned up in terms of language used IIRC?

Edit - Nope, different campaign - http://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/memories/elections/smethwick

 

[tsubaki]

Is this inspired by anything or is it just a string of non sequitur statements?

perhaps NSO was referring to this:

The British government refused to assist a French investigation into suspected money laundering and tax fraud by the UK telecoms giant Lycamobile – citing the fact that the company is the “biggest corporate donor to the Conservative party” and gives money to a trust founded by Prince Charles.

French prosecutors launched a major probe into the firm and arrested 19 people accused of using its accounts to launder money from organised criminal networks two years ago, after BuzzFeed News revealed its suspicious financial activities in the UK. But the Conservatives continued taking Lycamobile’s money – and it can now be revealed that the British authorities stonewalled a formal request from French prosecutors to carry out raids in London as part of the ongoing investigation.

Confidential correspondence between British government officials and their French counterparts, shown to BuzzFeed News by a source in the UK, reveals that the French wanted British authorities to raid Lycamobile’s London headquarters last year and seize evidence as part of their investigation into money laundering and tax fraud by the company.

In an official response dated 30 March 2017, a government official noted that Lycamobile is “a large multinational company” with “vast assets at their disposal” and would be “extremely unlikely to agree to having their premises searched”.

The letter, from the team at HMRC that handles law enforcement requests from foreign governments, continued: “It is of note that they are the biggest corporate donor to the Conservative party led by Prime Minister Theresa May and donated 1.25m Euros to the Prince Charles Trust in 2012.”

The HMRC response went on to say that Lycamobile would be likely to challenge any raids on its properties in court and may succeed because the French request did not contain enough “solid information”. The request stalled, and Lycamobile’s UK offices were never searched.

But the French investigation has continued to gather steam. Lycamobile has been ordered to pay €20 million bail after its two French companies were formally charged with money laundering in a Paris court in November and January.

When BuzzFeed News first approached HMRC to ask about its response to the French request, the agency’s senior press officer strongly denied that Lycamobile’s donations would ever be cited as a reason not to conduct criminal raids. “No HMRC official would ever write such a letter,” he said. “This is the United Kingdom for God’s sake, not some third world banana republic where the organs of state are in hock to some sort of kleptocracy.”

However, after verifying the contents of the email seen by BuzzFeed News, another HMRC spokesman said that it was “regrettable”.

“We never take political donations into account when working out how to work with other countries, or indeed on our own, in enforcing the tax law,” he said, adding that the reference to Lycamobile’s links to the Tories and Prince Charles had been included only as “background” information. “But I can see how this is open to being read that way, which is why that should not be in there,” he said.

some background:

In 2015, a team of reporters from BuzzFeed News spent five weeks following three cash couriers employed by Lycamobile as they drove around London depositing rucksacks bulging with cash at Post Offices all over the city. The team were acting on a tip that the men were suspected of laundering money on behalf of the telecoms giant by funnelling questionable cash into a network of different accounts in order to obscure its origins. The reporters watched the men leave the company’s east London depot each morning in an unmarked black people-carrier and followed them to multiple Post Offices, where they were secretly filmed handing sums of up to £240,000 over the counter.

The team established that the couriers had regularly used at least 10 separate Post Office branches to deposit up to £1 million a week, dating back several years. The bag drops were especially bizarre because the security firm G4S was also filmed visiting the Lyca depot and collecting as many as 40 sacks of money at a time in an armoured van – the normal way for a cash-rich business to transport its takings.

When Lycamobile was confronted over its suspicious cash-handling practices, it said the money came from the legitimate sale of international calling cards – but declined to explain why it sent staff to multiple Post Offices with bags of banknotes every day despite having an armoured and properly audited cash-in-transit service at its disposal.

obviously Corbyn though, or something

 

[Lee Smith]

I haven't really been following the whole Generation Windrush story, and this has probably been explained already, but surely the vast majority of the migrants who have been here since the 50s/60s would have been in employment in the UK for years (in fact most would be at retirement age now). If so wouldn't they have had to provide evidence to receive a National Insurance number? If so why couldn't this have been used as evidence of their right to stay?