Theresa "MAY" not build a better Britain.

[Anubis]

Ian Byrne is part of the Fans Supporting Foodbanks initiative who collect for local foodbanks before each LFC and EFC home game, and who run a Sunday morning meal service for the homeless at the Wirral Deen Centre.

 

https://twitter.com/ByrneLan/status/980717636773392384?s=19

 

Ian Byrne

@ByrneLan

 

Last week I linked a group of 18 schools primary and secondary into a local foodbank in North Liverpool. They wanted to issue vouchers to pupils and parents they know are suffering food poverty. Maybe this should be the headline news and focus of political anger

#ToryBritain

[razor]

1. Thread. Long list of Tory abuse, fraud, violence, racism, sexism, homophobia, sectarianism, child abuse, manslaughter and much, much more. Recent cases and historic examples that show how ingrained the problem is:

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/Trickyjabs/status/978334234069946373

 

That is some dedicated research.  Brilliant find, Nelly.

[Anubis]

[magicrat]

May banging on about the outrage of gender pay inequality, Fucking cunts have only had 3 election victories to address the issue,

[stringvest]

Classy

 

FEWER you fucking thick cunts

[Anubis]

I genuinely hadn't realised things had gotten this bad in London. A somewhat disturbing account of the effects of police cuts and the rise in youth crime as seen on through the eyes of those at the clean-up end.

 

https://twitter.com/juniordrblog/status/981106284861841408?s=19

[Anubis]

I genuinely hadn't realised things had gotten this bad in London. A somewhat disturbing account of the effects of police cuts and the rise in youth crime as seen on through the eyes of those at the clean-up end.

 

https://twitter.com/juniordrblog/status/981106284861841408?s=19

An alternative view from Richard Seymour.

 

https://twitter.com/leninology/status/981818842933493760?s=19

[Section_31]

An alternative view from Richard Seymour.

 

https://twitter.com/leninology/status/981818842933493760?s=19

 

I agree that 'bobbies on the beat' probably doesn't do much to stop this kind of crime. Watching The Wire taught me that. I wonder what impact cuts to community policing, gang intervention, children's centres etc have had though. Gang violence is often an unheady mix of poverty and family breakdown.

[Anubis]

I think you make a valid point. I think community policing has been decimated. You can probably get away with that in a leafy village, not so much where officers rely on local intelligence and intervention of other services. I also wonder what effects the cuts in social services have had on their ability to engage regularly and intervene with families.

[Denny Crane]

Well this is awkward. Fancy another job Rico?

 

Exclusive: CCHQ redeploys campaign staff to battle candidate shortages in Manchester and Barking & Dagenham

 

 

Guido Fawkes reported yesterday claims that in Liverpool the Conservative Party has been reduced to going door-to-door to seek out possible candidates in time for Friday’s nomination deadline. That’s mortifying, if true – as is the idea that those doing the door-knocking are Party employees shipped in from the South East of England to do the task. Liverpool is far from a Tory stronghold, but it still ought to be possible to identify a full slate of candidates in advance.

 

Liverpool Conservatives strongly dispute Fawkes’s account, it should be noted, and say they already have a full slate of candidates. Whether they or Fawkes are correct, I can now exclusively reveal troubling problems in finding Tory local election candidates in two other parts of the country.

 

In Manchester City Council, where all 96 seats in 32 wards are up for election, the Conservative Party has set itself the modest goal of putting up just one candidate in each ward, not even a full slate. Even then, I’m told by sources acquainted with the local campaign that there are real difficulties in identifying and nominating enough candidates to fulfil that aim.

 

Local activists and members have been asked to wrack their brains for anyone eligible who might be willing to stand, and central Party staff have been relocated to the area to work on the problem. It appears that in some wards there is a genuine risk that people might find there is no Conservative candidate to vote for.

 

I also gather that a similar issue has been encountered in Barking and Dagenham, where activists and staffers have had to be drafted in in order to assist with getting candidates signed up and nomination signatures secured in time for the deadline.

 

It could be that other areas are suffering this problem, too (in which case, please contact me via our form) – it’s certainly the case that various members of the Party’s field campaigning staff have been moved from their assigned areas to help out temporarily in the dash to ensure there are actually Tory candidates on the ballot paper.

 

Whether the Party manages to identify candidates, and complete their nomination papers, in time through these measures is almost beside the point. What matters – and is deeply concerning – is that these are the symptoms of severe atrophy among local associations, an affliction whose serious and damaging effects we have reported on for some years, including at the 2017 General Election.

 

If you lack members, you lack activists. If you lack activists, you lack candidates. If you lack candidates, activists, and members, then you will inevitably struggle to win elections. If you have to redeploy your paid staff from other areas to plug even basic gaps like getting nomination forms filled out, this atrophy in one area starts to undermine campaign activity in other areas.

 

I’ve lost count of the number of times senior Conservatives have expressed their dismay at the lack of any Conservative councillors in major cities like Liverpool and Manchester, or in other city authorities like Barking and Dagenham. Time and again we’re told of the need for a “fightback”, of new city strategies and proposals to regenerate urban conservatism. But here we are, immediately before the local election nomination deadline, and the Conservative Party is struggling to even put up half-complete slates of candidates in major contests – relying on its employees to do at the last minute the job that an organised grassroots movement ought to have been there to do months ago.

 

https://www.conservativehome.com/parliament/2018/04/exclusive-cchq-redeploys-campaign-staff-to-battle-candidate-shortages-in-manchester-and-barking-dagenham.html

[Anubis]

[sir roger]

I've no sympathy for Tories as you can imagine but must assume it is a totally thankless task volunteering for them in the likes of Liverpool & Manchester. Slogging the streets getting the height of abuse & the highlight being the possibility of not losing your deposit.

[Strontium]

If the Tories want councillors, or even MPs, in Liverpool and Manchester, then all they need to do is support proportional representation.

[sir roger]

If the Tories want councillors, or even MPs, in Liverpool and Manchester, then all they need to do is support proportional representation.

 

Sadly , I don't think the North generally is of any interest to them.

[Section_31]

It's a toxic brand in the North Tory, rather than it being a case of nobody up here agreeing with their ideology. Plenty of people voted UKIP and have right wing leanings. Bolton council is interesting, lots of Tories on that but I think they're seen generally as a bullwalk against the Asian vote, which tends to vote Labour whether they want to or not - if you catch my drift.

[Anubis]

Trafford Conserative leaflet.

 

[Denny Crane]

Add forced repatriation to the list, no suprise to see them adopt Monday club policy of yesteryear.

 

[magicrat]

They are doing exactly the same today with EU citizens, 

 

Excerpt from May's inaugural speech. It should be carved onto her tombstone with a big smiley face, 

Judging by the state of her we probably wont have too long to wait, Walking dead if ever I saw one. 

 

That means fighting against the burning injustice that if you’re born poor you will die on average nine years earlier than others.

If you’re black you are treated more harshly by the criminal justice system than if you’re white.

If you’re a white working-class boy you’re less likely than anybody else in Britain to go to university.

If you’re at a state school you’re less likely to reach the top professions than if you’re educated privately.

If you’re a woman you will earn less than a man.

If you suffer from mental health problems, there’s not enough help to hand.

If you’re young you will find it harder than ever before to own your own home. If you’re from an ordinary working-class family, life is much harder than many people in Westminster realise.

The government I lead will be driven, not by the interests of the privileged few but by yours. We will do everything we can to give you more control over your lives.

 

When we take the big calls we will think not of the powerful, but you. When we pass new laws we will listen not to the mighty, but to you.

When it comes to taxes we will prioritise not the wealthy, but you. When it comes to opportunity we won’t entrench the advantages of the fortunate few, we will do everything we can to help anybody, whatever your background, to go as far as your talents will take you.

[King Emlyn]

I remember when I was growing up in the late 60s and early 70s there were plenty of working class Tories in the community and I grew up in Belle Vale and Netherley area so hardly suburbia, pretty much unheard of now though, Thatcher was the game changer.

[Stickman]

Very good from David Lammy

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfy1mDdNtEQ

[Denny Crane]

They haven't changed tack out of decency it's because they thought they could get away with it.

 

 

 

For years, the government’s approach to Windrush children with immigration problems has been both absurd and cruel.

Over the past five months, as this scandal gradually unfolded, the Guardian has documented numerous cases of retirement-age UK residents who have described how the Home Office’s refusal to believe that they are in the UK legally has ruined their lives. Many have cried as they explained how upsetting it is to be classed as an illegal immigrant after more than 50 years in the UK, studying, working, bringing up children in a country they believed to be their own.

The extent of official Home Office heartlessness has been staggering, so it is encouraging to hear the home secretary, Amber Rudd, acknowledge belatedly that the treatment meted out by her department has been “appalling”, and to recognise that the Home Office has become “too concerned with policy”, causing it “lose sight of the individual”.

Ministers are promising now to deal with cases “sensitively”. Let’s see if that sensitivity actually materialises. It’s worth remembering that, less than a month ago,Theresa May chose to take a very harsh position on this issue.

Q&A What is the Windrush deportation crisis? Show

She was called on at prime minister’s questions to look into the case of Albert Thompson (not his real name) who is still being refused free NHS treatment by the Royal Marsden Hospital, five months after his radiotherapy was due to start. She showed no sensitivity to the case and refused to intervene, stating that Thompson needed to “evidence his settled status in the UK”. Thompson, a Jamaican-born son of a nurse who has lived and worked in the UK since he was a teenager, 44 years ago, remains profoundly worried about the impact that the delayed treatment is having on his health.

 

This is an extraordinary government U-turn. It is remarkable that officials have decided they want to be sensitive today, when for months they have been holding an obstinately firm line on this issue. Repeatedly, when the Guardian has contacted the Home Office to highlight cases of people who have lost their jobs, their homes, or been unable to get passports to travel to visit dying parents, officials have indicated that the fault lies with the individual, for failing to provide enough evidence of their right to be here

 

It’s hard to pick out the harshest example of unfair treatment from a whole catalogue of extreme official meanness, but the case ofPaulette Wilson sticks out. For 18 months, Natalie Barnes accompanied her mother, Paulette, when she went to sign in monthly at the Home Office reporting centre in Wolverhampton, as demanded by the immigration officials, who had noticed that Wilson had no papers proving she was here legally.

Barnes tried repeatedly to explain to staff that her mother, 61, a former cook who had lived in the UK for over 50 years, and who had worked in the House of Commonsserving food to MPs, was not an illegal immigrant. Occasionally she got angry and sometimes very upset as she attempted in vain to persuade officials that a mistake had been made.

 

Eventually, Home Office workers at the reporting centre got so fed up with her that she was banned from entering the building, and her mother had to go in alone. In October, without her daughter to argue for her, Wilson was detained and sent to Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre, ahead of deportation to Jamaica, a country she had not visited since 1968. Barnes can’t remember how many times she explained to staff they had got it wrong, but the culture of disbelief that runs through the Home Office meant she was not listened to

 

 

 

 

Equally, it’s hard to understand why Home Office staff and police needed to take a battering ram to smash down Anthony Bryan’s door when they came early one Sunday morning last November to detain him. He opened the door willingly when they arrived, so it wasn’t used; he was taken into detention for the second time, despite having lived an entirely law-abiding life in this country for more than 50 years, working and paying taxes.

Small details of official callousness are particularly upsetting. Judy Griffith, 63, who came from Barbados in 1963 when she was nine, had been trying to sort out her status for years, and queued for five hours in a Home Office processing centre on 27 December, to be told that, although officials believed her claim was valid, she was “not on the system”. She received a letter in January stating that new checks needed to be made, adding: “Please note it is no longer possible to make an enquiry in person. Please telephone the number on this letter in the first instance if you need to contact us.” There was no telephone number on the letter.

The government is under pressure now, more than ever before, to abandon this “hostile immigration environment” which Theresa May introduced when she was Home Secretary.

 

 

The Home Office readily admits that these newly-tightened immigration rules are what is behind the Windrush problem, acknowledging in a new briefing paper that: “Recent changes to the law mean that if you wish to work, rent property or have access to benefits and services in the UK then you will need documents to demonstrate your right to be in the UK. The government believes this is a proportionate measure to maintain effective immigration control.” The guidance note adds: “We recognise that this is causing problems for some individuals who have lost documents over the long period of time they have been in the UK.”

 

 

The government position appears to have softened significantly with Rudd’s admission on Monday that things have gone wrong in her department. On Friday, the Home Office was still recommending that people in this situation should get legal advice – despite the fact that legal costs are often unaffordable to people whose immigration problems mean they can neither work nor claim benefits (and are often homeless, and struggling with debt as a result); legal aid cuts mean it is unavailable for most immigration matters. The announcement waives application fees and the new team of 20 dedicated Home Office staff members should remove the need for the involvement of expensive lawyers.

Windrush-era citizens row: timeline of key events

Natalie Barnes said she and her mother, Paulette Wilson, were overwhelmed at the news. “We had no support. We never met a case worker, we just kept being told by a man behind the glass in the reporting office: you need to bring more evidence; they were rude,” she said. “This has been very traumatic for my mum; she tries not to show, but I can see it in her eyes. It’s been really hard for her but I feel very happy for everyone else in this situation. Knowing that they have people trying to help them sort it out will make a huge difference.”

 

For years it has been left to tiny charities like Praxis and St Mungo’s in London and the Refugee and Migrant Centre in Wolverhampton to pick up the shattered lives of Windrush generation people fighting to regularise their immigration status. They will be watching to see whether their case load reduces in the wake of these announcements, or if the official policy of cruelty will persist

 

 

https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/16/windrush-u-turn-welcome-but-theresa-may-policy-cruel?CMP=share_btn_tw&__twitter_impression=true

 

 

[Strontium]

This is Brexit Britain. This is what people voted for.

[Anny Road]

This is Brexit Britain. This is what people voted for.

No it’s Conservative policy.

[Denny Crane]

This is Brexit Britain. This is what people voted for.

You underestimate the decency of British people. As Anny states this is Tory policy.

[Strontium]

No it’s Conservative policy.

That's the same thing. Which is why the Tories had their highest vote share since 1983.