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Thread #163989   Message #3918654
Posted By: Steve Shaw
20-Apr-18 - 07:54 AM
Thread Name: BS: Britain shamed before world - Windrush
Subject: RE: BS: Britain shamed before world - Windrush
Yes, Home Secretary Theresa May, she of the grubby half-apology, who was instrumental in creating a "hostile environment" and who signed off the disgraceful Adbus campaign. She was, of course, struggling with the Tories' proudly-trumpeted policy of "getting net migration down to the tens of thousands," an impossible target as there was no way of preventing free movement of EU citizens. Of course, non-EU citizens, including the Windrush generation, were much easier targets, hence the "hostile environment." Even more disgracefully, she's tried to level blame at Labour for the decision to destroy the Windrush landing cards. But that bureaucratic decision, clumsy as it now seems, was made without malice before there was political pressure to reduce immigration and was made at a time when there was no "hostile environment." And it WAS the Tories who destroyed them!

And let's not forget that she lied to the country about the Tory immigration policy once it had failed, trying to tell us that it had never been an election promise, "just an aspiration." She was a terrible Home Secretary and she's a terrible prime minister. Terrible and incompetent.