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I find it incredible that these cards were destroyed at all. If nothing else they're a part of history and would've been certainly of interest and value to historians/museums, and exactly how much room were they taking up for someone to want to destroy them? I've visited the records dept at Huddersfield Uni and the secure room where they keep far less important/valuable documents is temperature and humidity controlled and they guard them with their lives. Records like this would make a great exhibition.
It's a bizarre decision and it's right that there's an investigation as to why they've gone. As for the cost? What about the cost of compensation never mind sorting it all out quickly for these poor fuckers? Or are we just going to wait for them all to die before we get around to that? I'll call that a rhetorical question because we all know the fucking answer.
But, the cards are a side-issue. The treatment of people who have done nothing wrong is appalling. The cards hadn't been needed until now, and actually would only prove arrival and not years of residency which is what they are having to prove, until the Tory govt especially Theresa May decided there was going to be a "hostile environment" to illegal immigrants. Remember that it isn't just about having to prove you've been here, in the meantime you can't have a bank account, get a job, travel etc... But it's fairly obvious, and was no doubt pointed out to her at the time, that they would then start being hostile to all immigrants. How else are they going to root them all out and get the figures down?
Let's face it the stats are far more important than a few innocent dark-skinned people getting a hard time eh?
This has to be the worst government that we've had in my lifetime. Shameful.
It's a bizarre decision and it's right that there's an investigation as to why they've gone. As for the cost? What about the cost of compensation never mind sorting it all out quickly for these poor fuckers? Or are we just going to wait for them all to die before we get around to that? I'll call that a rhetorical question because we all know the fucking answer.
But, the cards are a side-issue. The treatment of people who have done nothing wrong is appalling. The cards hadn't been needed until now, and actually would only prove arrival and not years of residency which is what they are having to prove, until the Tory govt especially Theresa May decided there was going to be a "hostile environment" to illegal immigrants. Remember that it isn't just about having to prove you've been here, in the meantime you can't have a bank account, get a job, travel etc... But it's fairly obvious, and was no doubt pointed out to her at the time, that they would then start being hostile to all immigrants. How else are they going to root them all out and get the figures down?
Let's face it the stats are far more important than a few innocent dark-skinned people getting a hard time eh?
This has to be the worst government that we've had in my lifetime. Shameful.