As the Guardian has reported, “The Home Office broke equalities law when it introduced its hostile environment immigration measures, a critical report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has concluded … In the latest damning report on the Home Office’s record in relation to its hostile environment policies and the Windrush scandal, the EHRC study detected ‘a lack of commitment’ within the Home Office to the importance of equality”. And there was more. Rather a lot more.
“Negative consequences of the hostile environment were ‘repeatedly ignored, dismissed, or their severity disregarded’, the report found. ‘This happened particularly when they were seen as a barrier to implementing hostile environment policies in a highly politicised environment’. The department’s approach to its legal duty to ensure that its policies complied with equality legalisation was ‘perfunctory’, the study concluded”. And more.
The interim chair of the EHRC concluded “we found that equality was generally dismissed or overlooked … The treatment of the Windrush generation as a result of hostile environment policies was a shameful stain on British history”. So what has Priti Patel, inexplicably made Home Secretary by alleged Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, got to say about the mess? Not very much, it seems.
She put out a statement jointly with her permanent secretary - no solo shouldering of the blame for her, then - but the Patel Twitter feed was too busy trumpeting all those measures the Tories are taking to recruit the cops they previously sent down the road, and allegedly keeping our borders secure. No room for admitting her party loused up.
So different the reaction to the EHRC when the boot is so firmly on the other foot.
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1 comment:
You can't expect anything else from Poison Dwarf Patel.
The woman has the mind and conscience of a guinea pig.
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