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The UK has granted only 2,700 visas under its much advertised Homes for Ukraine sponsorship scheme more than two weeks after its launch, according to Home Office figures released on Wednesday
The department also released updated figures about the number of people who have been granted visas to come to stay with British relatives. The Ukraine Family scheme, which has been running since the start of March, has issued 22,800 visas.
More than 3.9 million refugees have left Ukraine, with the vast majority of them settling in Poland, according to the UNHCR. An estimated 6.5 million people have been displaced within Ukraine.

Lord Harrington, the refugees minister, said changes had been made to the application scheme to try to streamline it, but agreed further improvements were needed.

Rhubarb & Custard wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 5:26 pm The Home Office also considers the best method to pair a Ukranian person/family with those UK households looking to accommodate is for both sides to find each other by chance on social media and then present their willingness to proceed with their proposed housing solution back to the Home Office. I suppose you could cite there's more Patel should be doing to protect some extremely vulnerable people, but it'll probably all work out without anyone getting abused

Happyhooker wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 9:55 pm

Rhubarb & Custard wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 5:26 pm The Home Office also considers the best method to pair a Ukranian person/family with those UK households looking to accommodate is for both sides to find each other by chance on social media and then present their willingness to proceed with their proposed housing solution back to the Home Office. I suppose you could cite there's more Patel should be doing to protect some extremely vulnerable people, but it'll probably all work out without anyone getting abused

Bloody hell.

This, in a single post is why fuck all is being done correctly in this situation.

Happyhooker wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 9:55 pm

Rhubarb & Custard wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 5:26 pm The Home Office also considers the best method to pair a Ukranian person/family with those UK households looking to accommodate is for both sides to find each other by chance on social media and then present their willingness to proceed with their proposed housing solution back to the Home Office. I suppose you could cite there's more Patel should be doing to protect some extremely vulnerable people, but it'll probably all work out without anyone getting abused

Bloody hell.

This, in a single post is why fuck all is being done correctly in this situation.

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 10:20 pm

Happyhooker wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 9:55 pm

Rhubarb & Custard wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 5:26 pm The Home Office also considers the best method to pair a Ukranian person/family with those UK households looking to accommodate is for both sides to find each other by chance on social media and then present their willingness to proceed with their proposed housing solution back to the Home Office. I suppose you could cite there's more Patel should be doing to protect some extremely vulnerable people, but it'll probably all work out without anyone getting abused

Bloody hell.

This, in a single post is why fuck all is being done correctly in this situation.

4 million refugees, & the UK keeps talking about visas issued; & not about people !

dpedin wrote: ↑Thu Mar 31, 2022 11:37 am

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 10:20 pm

Happyhooker wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 9:55 pm

Bloody hell.

This, in a single post is why fuck all is being done correctly in this situation.

4 million refugees, & the UK keeps talking about visas issued; & not about people !

Petty Patel and the Home Office are really just a shower of cnuts! The Williams report on Windrush and how the HO has implemented previous recommendations for change from 18 months ago, for this type of report, is pretty damning.

The Home Office has failed to transform its culture or to become a more compassionate department as it promised to do after the Windrush scandal, a critical inspection report has found.
Expressions of disappointment appear 14 times in the progress report published by independent expert Wendy Williams, who was appointed to advise the Home Office on how to reform to avoid any future crisis.
Reviewing the department’s progress in its commitments to addressing the problems caused by the Windrush scandal, Williams said while officials had been ambitious in some areas she was “disappointed by the lack of tangible progress or drive to achieve the cultural changes required”.

C69 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 31, 2022 8:06 pm Deluded Fucker
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60941902

Rhubarb & Custard wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 8:36 am Is he deluded? He's basically saying his call for businesses to avoid dealings with Russia shouldn't be held against his own family because the rules are just for the plebs, such thinking has promoted Boris to No.10 and Rishi to No.11 with a decent (albeit for now fading) shot at No.10. He's less deluded than he is aware, he's just also somewhat entitled in his thinking

SaintK wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 10:45 am

Rhubarb & Custard wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 8:36 am Is he deluded? He's basically saying his call for businesses to avoid dealings with Russia shouldn't be held against his own family because the rules are just for the plebs, such thinking has promoted Boris to No.10 and Rishi to No.11 with a decent (albeit for now fading) shot at No.10. He's less deluded than he is aware, he's just also somewhat entitled in his thinking

More than entitled.
Spouse's and partner's business interests and earnings are covered by the Ministerial Code and therefore questions can be asked about them

Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 1:58 pm I see the next election is now confirmed as a culture war shitshow as the cover of the Daily Mail has taken up the Women's Rights cudgel with a campaign by some lovely WOMEN who are going to ask every candidate standing about WOMEN AND PENISES.

Apparently they're the new suffragettes.

Jesus wept.

#RespectMySex is trending on Twitter, which somone said sounds a George Michael B-side.

Although the best response to this I have seen is "Women can have as many penises as they want".

Priti Patel is the type of person who would unplug your life support machine to charge her phone.

Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 7:15 pm

I like neeps wrote: ↑Sun Apr 03, 2022 12:31 pm

Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 7:15 pm

It's not what you think! He likes to rack his dandruff :

I like neeps wrote: ↑Sun Apr 03, 2022 12:31 pm

Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 7:15 pm

It's not what you think! He likes to rack his dandruff :

dpedin wrote: ↑Sun Apr 03, 2022 3:49 pm

Eat out to Help Out - this doesn't look very good for the wee shite Rishi! When the top Civil Servant is asking the Chancellor for written instruction to implement a policy then you know it is shit and they are preparing for the inevitable questions about why it was done - it is their defence in advance. Doesn't look like Rishi is such a clever little tosspot that the Tories think he is, in fact he is becoming very very careless with £billions of taxpayers money to say the least. This is going to go further methinks!

salanya wrote: ↑Sun Apr 03, 2022 4:55 pm It's pretty shocking how little this government is doing on the cost of living crisis.

But the excuses for it are particularly lame. 'We need to support businesses for investment, keep the economy growing, boost wages'

Many businesses will be struggling with the energy and logistics costs as well, and even more will struggle with the lower disposable income of their customers. This in turn damages the economy, with more businesses at risk (especially if they've used up reserves during Covid times) and most affected businesses and organisations will struggle to afford pay increases going forward.
And despite there being some pay increases over the last year, they are still outstretched by the inflation.

But Rishi's millions and his wife's billions are safe, so he's not fussed. And by the time of the elections he'll throw us all a measly bone, to keep the peasants engaged. Boris has gone very quiet on the whole situation, probably too busy hiding the full Sue Gray report.

What a shite way to run a country.

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Mon Apr 04, 2022 8:50 pm The latest "poll of polls" has Lab on 39%, Con on 35%

How?

What would make 35% of respondents say they were going to vote for this party?

I just don't get it, is it really that a budgie in a blue rosette would get their vote?

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Mon Apr 04, 2022 8:50 pm The latest "poll of polls" has Lab on 39%, Con on 35%

How?

What would make 35% of respondents say they were going to vote for this party?

I just don't get it, is it really that a budgie in a blue rosette would get their vote?

robmatic wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 9:50 am

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Mon Apr 04, 2022 8:50 pm The latest "poll of polls" has Lab on 39%, Con on 35%

How?

What would make 35% of respondents say they were going to vote for this party?

I just don't get it, is it really that a budgie in a blue rosette would get their vote?

This is an absolutely terrible incarnation of the Tory party but the alternative is a Labour party that is quite far removed from its traditional constituency.

JM2K6 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 9:53 am

robmatic wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 9:50 am

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Mon Apr 04, 2022 8:50 pm The latest "poll of polls" has Lab on 39%, Con on 35%

How?

What would make 35% of respondents say they were going to vote for this party?

I just don't get it, is it really that a budgie in a blue rosette would get their vote?

This is an absolutely terrible incarnation of the Tory party but the alternative is a Labour party that is quite far removed from its traditional constituency.

That doesn't explain the 35%. There aren't many "traditional" Labour types who would vote for this Tory party whose brains haven't been poisoned by Brexit and culture war shit, which would put them at odds with traditional Labour anyway.

petej wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 10:20 am

JM2K6 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 9:53 am

robmatic wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 9:50 am

This is an absolutely terrible incarnation of the Tory party but the alternative is a Labour party that is quite far removed from its traditional constituency.

That doesn't explain the 35%. There aren't many "traditional" Labour types who would vote for this Tory party whose brains haven't been poisoned by Brexit and culture war shit, which would put them at odds with traditional Labour anyway.

Think there are lots of older traditional conservatives voters who are in denial or haven't realised how the current leadership of the Tory's aren't actually conservatives.

dpedin wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 10:33 am

petej wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 10:20 am

JM2K6 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 9:53 am

That doesn't explain the 35%. There aren't many "traditional" Labour types who would vote for this Tory party whose brains haven't been poisoned by Brexit and culture war shit, which would put them at odds with traditional Labour anyway.

Think there are lots of older traditional conservatives voters who are in denial or haven't realised how the current leadership of the Tory's aren't actually conservatives.

Standing for hours in a non EU queue at Malaga airport won't help either.

dpedin wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 10:33 am

petej wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 10:20 am

JM2K6 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 9:53 am

That doesn't explain the 35%. There aren't many "traditional" Labour types who would vote for this Tory party whose brains haven't been poisoned by Brexit and culture war shit, which would put them at odds with traditional Labour anyway.

Think there are lots of older traditional conservatives voters who are in denial or haven't realised how the current leadership of the Tory's aren't actually conservatives.

Once the gas and lecky bills start dropping and the sky high inflation hits pensions then there will be a shift - so far its all been about what is going to happen when it actually happens they will start realising what they have done. Standing for hours in a non EU queue at Malaga airport won't help either.

petej wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 11:02 am

dpedin wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 10:33 am

petej wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 10:20 am

Think there are lots of older traditional conservatives voters who are in denial or haven't realised how the current leadership of the Tory's aren't actually conservatives.

Once the gas and lecky bills start dropping and the sky high inflation hits pensions then there will be a shift - so far its all been about what is going to happen when it actually happens they will start realising what they have done. Standing for hours in a non EU queue at Malaga airport won't help either.

Things have happened. Poor initial COVID response, costs of Brexit mounting, no sunlit uplands, cost of living mounting. I think doubling down is more likely than any realisation. A bit like an abusive relationship just a bit more hurt, they protect us, they care for the country, it will be different etc ....