adrianc
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Post by adrianc on Nov 16, 2023 12:48:59 GMT
I'm really struggling to understand why setting up a reception centre in Calais, through which all asylum seekers need to come, isn't the obvious solution here. if it was "ALL", then it would require quite a large number to turn around and cross the channel in the opposite direction... 90,000 people applied for asylum in the UK in 2022. About 46,000 are thought to have crossed the channel in 1,100 small boats. The real cause of the issue is revealed, though, in that just 18,700 claims were given initial decisions plus 3,800 appeals... So the queue grew by about 67,500 people. Even if not one small boat had come, the queue would have grown by more than 21,000 people... 133,000 people were waiting for a decision at the end of the year... 76% of those settlements saw asylum granted at first decision, and 51% of the appeals. So about 16,000 of the 22,500 claims decided are legitimate - over 71% in all. Remember, Rwanda was only ever going to take about 300 people per year. Total red herring.
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Post by ilmoro on Nov 16, 2023 13:40:34 GMT
There's a scathing article(behind a paywall) titled "Why my Civil Service colleagues are celebrating the Rwanda ruling" in today's Daily Telegraph by an anonymous Home Office civil servant telling of a great lack of support within the department for the Government's Rwanda policies. It claims that Suella Braverman was "mocked and insulted by London-based staff furious at the refusal to extend safe routes to an every-growing number of countries".
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Post by adrianc on Nov 16, 2023 13:47:14 GMT
Further? Do they REALLY mean "further"?
The article seems to ignore the basic reality that what is apparently being "sneered" at for political reasons is actually simply unworkable or illegal within the frameworks of UK and international law, and international treaties to which the UK is a long-standing party.
The article appears to be written from a politically supportive standpoint, not a politically neutral one.
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Post by keitha on Nov 16, 2023 14:36:30 GMT
Even in Local Government I've seen officers doing what they can to oppose the wishes of the elected members and the Public.
I've seen staff promoted on the basis of who they know within the Authority one example springs to mind a clerk who was taken a shine to by the head of her Office was made his PA, when he got promoted she was moved across as his PA, he was promoted again and she was again moved, but because she was at the top of the pay band for PAs she was given a company car, as they couldn't pay her any more, and an assistant to help her.
He left for another Authority as deputy chief exec, she was let go with a redundancy package, as it was discovered, as many of had said that she struggled to turn a PC on, and had all her emails directed to her assistant. she did however have a good collection of music CDs and some decent speakers plugged into the PC.
Planning was a nightmare regularly conversations were held about how proposals could be stopped in areas that affected officers personally, and totally inappropriate plans would be recommended in other areas.
I saw a member of staff opening sealed tenders for IT kit and noting prices, I reported this to management as it is a complete no no, all tenders had to be opened at the same time in the presence of a senior officer and stamped. the guy concerned was reprimanded and old it must not happen again. the next day he opened more and rang one company and told then someone else had put in a lower bid. I went back to management and I was reassigned to a different team, so I was punished for reporting rule breaking.
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