Windrush
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 11:32 pm
I think this issue comes down to, "Who will effect more racism - racist c.nts, or consultants employed by racist c.nts?" If I understand Tory ideology correctly, the profit motive and competition within the pure free-market process of contemporary Conservative government procurement would ensure that consultants employed by the racist c.nts at the Home Office would end up with outcomes far more racist than the Home Office themselves would manage. Therefore, to be internally consistent as a modern, anti-racist party of the economic right, the Tories would have to stop hiring consultants until the Home Office isn't racist (possibly with an exception for anti-racism consultants).sTeamTraen wrote: ↑Thu Nov 19, 2020 9:26 amThe government gets stick for bringing in consultancy firms to do work that should probably be done by civil servants, but then when they put a bunch of civil servants in charge of something it seems they have no shortage of racist c.nts, at least at the Home Office.
Indeed, especially since I had the impression that civil servants were generally reasonably well-educated people --- indeed, they seem to be regarded by Brexiteers as died-in-the-wool soft-lefty Remoaners, a position that I never found totally implausible. Maybe the Home Office creams off(*) the ones at the racist end of the distribution early in the process.Bird on a Fire wrote: ↑Thu Nov 19, 2020 8:43 pmWhat does it say about a society that the permanent staff of its government department responsible for 'law & order' is institutionally racist?
Home Secretaries in my adult life have tended to be rather too keen on Lawn Order and not sufficiently concerned with civil liberties or overreach or miscarriages of justice. I guess that might affect those who want to work in the Home Office - and especially those who are more enthusiastic in their implementation of such departmental policies.sTeamTraen wrote: ↑Thu Nov 19, 2020 10:59 pmIndeed, especially since I had the impression that civil servants were generally reasonably well-educated people --- indeed, they seem to be regarded by Brexiteers as died-in-the-wool soft-lefty Remoaners, a position that I never found totally implausible. Maybe the Home Office creams off(*) the ones at the racist end of the distribution early in the process.Bird on a Fire wrote: ↑Thu Nov 19, 2020 8:43 pmWhat does it say about a society that the permanent staff of its government department responsible for 'law & order' is institutionally racist?
(*) In many languages, the verb used to mean "cream off" implies the removal of scum.
If I had to have the current government, and I had to have Michael Gove in it, I think he might do less damage as Home Secretary (a) than at many other departments and (b) than many other people. He showed signs of genuine liberalism as Justice Secretary.jimbob wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 9:06 amHome Secretaries in my adult life have tended to be rather too keen on Lawn Order and not sufficiently concerned with civil liberties or overreach or miscarriages of justice. I guess that might affect those who want to work in the Home Office - and especially those who are more enthusiastic in their implementation of such departmental policies.
I was hoping Gove replaces Johnson rather than Sunak (I hate then both but I think Gove will do less damage)sTeamTraen wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 10:04 amIf I had to have the current government, and I had to have Michael Gove in it, I think he might do less damage as Home Secretary (a) than at many other departments and (b) than many other people. He showed signs of genuine liberalism as Justice Secretary.
Yeah. Organisation that dehumanises people on racist and xenophobic grounds not treating people like humans non-shocker, sadly.discovolante wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 5:07 pmIt's just sadly not all that surprising that an organisation with a long history of killing, or directly and indirectly contributing to the deaths of people of colour has turned out to be not very good at giving money to black people and I'm sorry that Alexandra Ankrah has had to put her neck on the line to expose this.
Who've we got? Paulette Wilson, Manuel Bravo, Joy Gardner, Jimmy Mubenga, etc...there have been hunger strikes at Yarl's Wood, and I know we are comparing contractors vs 'in-house' civil servants but last year between about 150 and 300 refused asylum seekers in Glasgow nearly had their locks changed on them so they would have been just left in the streets with literally nowhere to go: https://theferret.scot/serco-judgement- ... ck-change/ hard to imagine that that wouldn't have killed some of them.
I wish I was shocked at that instead of just disgusted.discovolante wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 10:05 amhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... dbkWi7eoyQ
“The Home Office did not comply with its obligations under the public sector equality policy and that failing has absolutely contributed to the serious injustices that were experienced by the Windrush generation.”
"There was a misconception by some officials that immigration was exempt from all equalities legislation.”