wow
"We won't waste taxpayers money"
That's a first.
The Home Office will not appeal last week's High Court decision which found its attempt to backdate changes to immigration rules for highly-skilled individuals was illegal. In November 2006 the UK began moving to a points based immigration system but the Home Office wanted to effectively backdate this - so anyone living and …
I am over here working in the IT sector on my wife's visa, she is a social worker. I love the country but the people ruling it really make you wonder. Was planning on staying here for the long run but as of late I am just waiting for the ID card to come into effect then a quick move back to Canada.
the criminals don't scare me they have not power, the government does scare me. They have real power but no brains.
What's Herr Flick got to do with anything?
Are we being invited to think that, because the Immigration Minister is alledged to look like Herr Flick, he is probably a Nazi?
I'm starting to tire of the Register's increasingly* childish reporting. I like a candid alternative approach, but this style of reporting is unprofessional and unfair to the individuals mentioned.
(*Or perhaps I'm just getting old?)
if you watched the slimy way he tried to weasel his way through the select committee studying this unpleasant policy you'd not think it was unfair to the individual mentioned at all.
I have a number of far more choice words I've, as this is a family site, refrained from using to describe him
Quite so. Some of us are such recent immigrants that we have a place to go 'back' to. Others don't. Still, I'm sure we'd all be accepted in the USA if it came to that:) Or maybe the Olduvai Gorge, or...
But surely, we *do* all need ID cards, to prove we exist. Hmm. Presumably if we can't prove we exist, then we can't be immigrants and can't be deported. No, shurely shome mishtake.
Mebbyn Kernow! (Aliens, we're all aliens)
Since even a successful appeal would probably go to Europe, where it would certainly be overruled by the European court, it is indeed saving taxpayers' money and civil servants' time. Which may well be wasted in other ways, but at least someone's been showing some rare common sense. Celebrate it.
Now if only the same common sense could be displayed re that bloody stupid ID card scheme...