winjim
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We of the sinking middle class…may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared.
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We of the sinking middle class…may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared.
Ian H
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Which leads me off-topic to wonder why Webster didn't remove the gh when he reformed US spelling.
Hitchington
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Good point, but English isn't the first language of the person who wrote the sign. Shep doesn't have that excuse
Besides the sentiment behind the sign writer's message is much more positive than Shep's.
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Hitchington
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In fact a little research tells me "neibour" is a Scottish archaic spelling of neighbour as used by Robert Burns
But I don't think he's that clever.
Of course if Shep was clever he could claim that he deliberately miss-spelt utopia as "itopia" to make a pun on me being a woke, navel gazing lefty who is living in some sort of imagined socialist paradise oblivious to the realities of life. I-topia.
But I don't think he's that clever.
winjim
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Nice to be so we'll thought of around the world....
https://www.newyorker.com/news/dail...s-johnsons-attempt-to-send-refugees-to-rwanda
https://www.newyorker.com/news/dail...s-johnsons-attempt-to-send-refugees-to-rwanda
mudsticks
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Funnily enough i didn't have you down as being 'quite' that thick..
But like I said earlier, this place can be a learning experience for all of us..
deptfordmarmoset
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newfhouse
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Unspeakable. Possibly today. This is our country doing this.
Mothers and grandmothers, some of whom have lived in the UK for decades, are among those facing deportation to Nigeria and Ghana on a controversial Home Office charter flight on Wednesday.
The women the Guardian has spoken to estimate that at least 10 of them are facing removal. Some suffer from severe mental health problems and are on anti-psychotic medication. It is unusual to see such a large number of women on a deportation flight to the west African countries.
Human rights campaigners say there are a range of safety concerns regarding the removal of those due to be on board, including religious persecution, modern slavery, rights to family life, and persecution on the basis of sexual orientation.
Charities have expressed concerns about delays with what are known as rule 35 reports, where these issues can be explored at detention centres.
One 40-year-old mother of three British children has previously been sectioned under the Mental Health Act. She fled Nigeria after being persecuted for being a Christian in a majority Muslim area and travelled to the UK in 2009 on a false passport. She was pregnant at the time, was imprisoned for travelling on the false passport, and gave birth while in prison.
When she became seriously mentally ill, her children were removed. The Home Office then evicted her because her children were no longer living with her. She ended up sleeping on the streets behind a church.
Speaking to the Guardian from Colnbrook detention centre, near Heathrow, she said: “How can the Home Office separate me from my children? I’m not going to let it happen. If they force me to go, I will die. I will kill myself. I escaped Nigeria to save my life.”
Adeniyi Raji, 48, is a gay man facing removal to Nigeria for a second time. He was interviewed by the Guardian in 2017 when he first faced deportation. “I’m in the UK because I need protection. If I’m returned to Nigeria, they will kill me,” he said.
He shared screenshots of death threats he had received from people in Nigeria. One said: “So after all that we did to you before, you are still a practising homosexual. Wait until we see you down here, that will be the end of you.”
Government guidance published in February 2022 states that LGBTI people are persecuted in Nigeria, that gay men found to be involved in same sex acts are liable to be jailed for 14 years, while in the northern states, where Sharia law prevails, the punishment is death.
Maria Brul of the charity Detention Action said: “This Ghana and Nigeria mass charter flight is due to forcibly expel many women with British children, some of who have lived here for over 25 years.”
Emma Ginn, director of the charity Medical Justice, said: “We fear that our clients with severe mental health issues will be removed without having had a rule 35 report exploring any history of torture, trafficking, suicide risk and medical conditions. They are in a long queue to get an appointment for one of these reports from the healthcare unit. There continue to be serious defects in the detention safeguarding systems.”
A Home Office spokesperson said: “The UK only ever returns individuals to their country of origin when the Home Office and, where applicable, the courts deem it is safe to do so.
“All asylum and human rights claims are carefully considered in accordance with our international obligations. Each individual assessment is made against the background of relevant caselaw and the latest country information. The New Plan for Immigration will fix the broken immigration system and expedite the removal of those with no right to be here.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...n-in-uk-face-deportation-to-nigeria-and-ghana
Am I alone in thinking The New Plan For Immigration sounds deliberately fascistic? They may as well have called it something like Ultimate Solution.
Mothers and grandmothers, some of whom have lived in the UK for decades, are among those facing deportation to Nigeria and Ghana on a controversial Home Office charter flight on Wednesday.
The women the Guardian has spoken to estimate that at least 10 of them are facing removal. Some suffer from severe mental health problems and are on anti-psychotic medication. It is unusual to see such a large number of women on a deportation flight to the west African countries.
Human rights campaigners say there are a range of safety concerns regarding the removal of those due to be on board, including religious persecution, modern slavery, rights to family life, and persecution on the basis of sexual orientation.
Charities have expressed concerns about delays with what are known as rule 35 reports, where these issues can be explored at detention centres.
One 40-year-old mother of three British children has previously been sectioned under the Mental Health Act. She fled Nigeria after being persecuted for being a Christian in a majority Muslim area and travelled to the UK in 2009 on a false passport. She was pregnant at the time, was imprisoned for travelling on the false passport, and gave birth while in prison.
When she became seriously mentally ill, her children were removed. The Home Office then evicted her because her children were no longer living with her. She ended up sleeping on the streets behind a church.
Speaking to the Guardian from Colnbrook detention centre, near Heathrow, she said: “How can the Home Office separate me from my children? I’m not going to let it happen. If they force me to go, I will die. I will kill myself. I escaped Nigeria to save my life.”
Adeniyi Raji, 48, is a gay man facing removal to Nigeria for a second time. He was interviewed by the Guardian in 2017 when he first faced deportation. “I’m in the UK because I need protection. If I’m returned to Nigeria, they will kill me,” he said.
He shared screenshots of death threats he had received from people in Nigeria. One said: “So after all that we did to you before, you are still a practising homosexual. Wait until we see you down here, that will be the end of you.”
Government guidance published in February 2022 states that LGBTI people are persecuted in Nigeria, that gay men found to be involved in same sex acts are liable to be jailed for 14 years, while in the northern states, where Sharia law prevails, the punishment is death.
Maria Brul of the charity Detention Action said: “This Ghana and Nigeria mass charter flight is due to forcibly expel many women with British children, some of who have lived here for over 25 years.”
Emma Ginn, director of the charity Medical Justice, said: “We fear that our clients with severe mental health issues will be removed without having had a rule 35 report exploring any history of torture, trafficking, suicide risk and medical conditions. They are in a long queue to get an appointment for one of these reports from the healthcare unit. There continue to be serious defects in the detention safeguarding systems.”
A Home Office spokesperson said: “The UK only ever returns individuals to their country of origin when the Home Office and, where applicable, the courts deem it is safe to do so.
“All asylum and human rights claims are carefully considered in accordance with our international obligations. Each individual assessment is made against the background of relevant caselaw and the latest country information. The New Plan for Immigration will fix the broken immigration system and expedite the removal of those with no right to be here.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...n-in-uk-face-deportation-to-nigeria-and-ghana
Am I alone in thinking The New Plan For Immigration sounds deliberately fascistic? They may as well have called it something like Ultimate Solution.
glasgowcyclist
Über Member
These daffodils have shown repeatedly that they don’t give a flying fark about our international obligations.
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Fab Foodie
Legendary Member
Policy going well, Nazi?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...atens-to-walk-away?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...atens-to-walk-away?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
theclaud
Reading around the chip
deptfordmarmoset
Über Member
LOL numbnuts will be apoplectic.
I never thought that the policy was meant to work but that they'd have someone to blame when it failed. I doubt that they'd considered the possibility that it would be the armed forces that they'd have to blame.
newfhouse
pleb
Well colour me surprised.
Documents presented to a High Court hearing on Tuesday said that Rwanda was “initially excluded from the shortlist of potential partner countries for [Priti Patel’s] proposed immigration policy on human rights grounds.
They show that on 10 February 2021, the UK High Commissioner to Rwanda indicated that the country “ should not be pursued as an option for the planned migration policy”.
The reasons given included that it “has been accused of recruiting refugees to conduct armed operations in neighbouring countries”, has a “poor human rights record regardless of the conventions it has signed up to” and has been criticised by the UK for extrajudicial killings, deaths in custody, enforced disappearances, torture and crackdowns on anyone critical of the regime.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rwanda-deal-priti-patel-asylum-law-b2126416.html
Documents presented to a High Court hearing on Tuesday said that Rwanda was “initially excluded from the shortlist of potential partner countries for [Priti Patel’s] proposed immigration policy on human rights grounds.
They show that on 10 February 2021, the UK High Commissioner to Rwanda indicated that the country “ should not be pursued as an option for the planned migration policy”.
The reasons given included that it “has been accused of recruiting refugees to conduct armed operations in neighbouring countries”, has a “poor human rights record regardless of the conventions it has signed up to” and has been criticised by the UK for extrajudicial killings, deaths in custody, enforced disappearances, torture and crackdowns on anyone critical of the regime.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rwanda-deal-priti-patel-asylum-law-b2126416.html