Boris is already using the war in Ukraine to deflect from his own failings… wouldn’t surprise me at all if this was just a half-cooked scheme to look good but with no actual follow-through… people are losing their homes and their lives and our government is using it as a political trump card… it’s just sad :/
as I’ve said all along – watch what the pm does, not what he says, because he’ll promise anything and everything but so often fails to deliver… he doesn’t think beyond the soundbite or favourable headline
The whistleblower is just a call centre agent for a third party.
The scheme is working exactly they way Priti Patel and her team intended it to function.
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Badly, slowly, with the absolute minimum of people actually entering the country. The hostile environment is not a new policy for them.
Of course it is, we have the most inept and corrupt government since rotten boroughs were abolished in the early 19th century.
Ukrainian refugee in UK here.
To honestly say, everyone of us already knows and understands that this scheme is designed to fail. People who apply here are 90% those who want to stay here. People in Ukraine use all their possibilities to leave out of Ukraine, but nobody really believes in these chances – it was always like that, even before the war. So we are not really shocked or disappointed. It was obvious after looking at so many people waiting for 3 weeks and still not getting it. We got visa in 8 days, right day after checking of given to us room, and we felt(and actually did) like we won the lottery.
TL;DR: It’s sad that so many people didn’t get to the UK, but all of us are grateful even for the chance.
P.S. Please, tell me about mistakes in the text
You mean that a refugee scheme, overseen by the woman who wanted to put gunboats in the channel to stop refugees, was all smoke and mirrors designed to make said woman look like she isn’t a literal Disney villain?
Well I for one am shocked and appalled.
It was designed solely to distract from BoJo and other Tory failings. If it was designed to work, it wouldn’t have made the news so much.
>The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said he had dealt with numerous cases where UK visas had been issued for an entire Ukrainian family apart from one child, which in effect stopped the family travelling to the UK.
“This allows the government to say we’ve issued lots of visas. Yet, because they have withheld one, it’s a guarantee those Ukrainians won’t travel,” said the source.
The whistleblower said he came across four or five cases each day in which a single child from a family had not received permission to travel, a pattern he believed was “too much of a coincidence” for it not to have been encouraged.
Just awful, awful behaviour.
Source sounds a bit biased, here? Hard to tell whether this is an accurate portrayal or not.
last two weeks i flew back from Poland and from Norway . firstly through Birmingham then through manchester.. both airports had pretty yellow and blue areasfor refugees to be processed.. both airports had not one single person in those areas.. i get the feeling it is just window dressing.. to make us feel like we are helping desperate people.
How are about some cheap/free homes for our own citizens
Whistleblower isn’t in the position to know this information and provides no evidence.
This should be an opinion article.
Will the people defending this clown finally give up and accept hes all about PR and protecting his arse? The weapons “while nice” are creating money for our industries creating the weapons, it makes him look good to his buddies while he shafts those most in need.
Why would anyone doubt this, the ‘Hostile Environment’ never went away…
This was obvious from the outset.
If the government actually wanted to help we would have lots of Ukrainians here. All this government has done has been to put up barriers whilst pretending to offer support.
Granting visas to 3/4’s of the family, leaving the youngest out, knowing full well that no decent human being would leave their youngest to fend for itself.
I really hope this country grows a spine and removes them. They leap from failure to failure.
If there’s one thing I can agree with Steve Baker on it’s “I’m pissed off with members of the Cabinet sitting there fat, dumb and happy”…
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Boris is already using the war in Ukraine to deflect from his own failings… wouldn’t surprise me at all if this was just a half-cooked scheme to look good but with no actual follow-through… people are losing their homes and their lives and our government is using it as a political trump card… it’s just sad :/
as I’ve said all along – watch what the pm does, not what he says, because he’ll promise anything and everything but so often fails to deliver… he doesn’t think beyond the soundbite or favourable headline
The whistleblower is just a call centre agent for a third party.
The scheme is working exactly they way Priti Patel and her team intended it to function.
​
Badly, slowly, with the absolute minimum of people actually entering the country. The hostile environment is not a new policy for them.
Of course it is, we have the most inept and corrupt government since rotten boroughs were abolished in the early 19th century.
Ukrainian refugee in UK here.
To honestly say, everyone of us already knows and understands that this scheme is designed to fail. People who apply here are 90% those who want to stay here. People in Ukraine use all their possibilities to leave out of Ukraine, but nobody really believes in these chances – it was always like that, even before the war. So we are not really shocked or disappointed. It was obvious after looking at so many people waiting for 3 weeks and still not getting it. We got visa in 8 days, right day after checking of given to us room, and we felt(and actually did) like we won the lottery.
TL;DR: It’s sad that so many people didn’t get to the UK, but all of us are grateful even for the chance.
P.S. Please, tell me about mistakes in the text
You mean that a refugee scheme, overseen by the woman who wanted to put gunboats in the channel to stop refugees, was all smoke and mirrors designed to make said woman look like she isn’t a literal Disney villain?
Well I for one am shocked and appalled.
It was designed solely to distract from BoJo and other Tory failings. If it was designed to work, it wouldn’t have made the news so much.
>The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said he had dealt with numerous cases where UK visas had been issued for an entire Ukrainian family apart from one child, which in effect stopped the family travelling to the UK.
“This allows the government to say we’ve issued lots of visas. Yet, because they have withheld one, it’s a guarantee those Ukrainians won’t travel,” said the source.
The whistleblower said he came across four or five cases each day in which a single child from a family had not received permission to travel, a pattern he believed was “too much of a coincidence” for it not to have been encouraged.
Just awful, awful behaviour.
Source sounds a bit biased, here? Hard to tell whether this is an accurate portrayal or not.
last two weeks i flew back from Poland and from Norway . firstly through Birmingham then through manchester.. both airports had pretty yellow and blue areasfor refugees to be processed.. both airports had not one single person in those areas.. i get the feeling it is just window dressing.. to make us feel like we are helping desperate people.
How are about some cheap/free homes for our own citizens
Whistleblower isn’t in the position to know this information and provides no evidence.
This should be an opinion article.
Will the people defending this clown finally give up and accept hes all about PR and protecting his arse? The weapons “while nice” are creating money for our industries creating the weapons, it makes him look good to his buddies while he shafts those most in need.
Why would anyone doubt this, the ‘Hostile Environment’ never went away…
This was obvious from the outset.
If the government actually wanted to help we would have lots of Ukrainians here. All this government has done has been to put up barriers whilst pretending to offer support.
Granting visas to 3/4’s of the family, leaving the youngest out, knowing full well that no decent human being would leave their youngest to fend for itself.
I really hope this country grows a spine and removes them. They leap from failure to failure.
If there’s one thing I can agree with Steve Baker on it’s “I’m pissed off with members of the Cabinet sitting there fat, dumb and happy”…