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Comments on: Home Office won't appeal immigration ruling

wow 

Posted Monday 14th April 2008 14:45 GMT

"We won't waste taxpayers money"

That's a first.

Steady on... 

Posted Monday 14th April 2008 15:00 GMT

Coat

Herr Flick of the Gestapo (aka Richard Gibson) may sue for that comment.

Mine's the full-length black leather one.

Immigrant 

Posted Monday 14th April 2008 15:06 GMT

Linux

I am over here working in the IT sector on my wife's visa, she is a social worker. I love the country but the people ruling it really make you wonder. Was planning on staying here for the long run but as of late I am just waiting for the ID card to come into effect then a quick move back to Canada.

the criminals don't scare me they have not power, the government does scare me. They have real power but no brains.

Childish Reporting 

Posted Monday 14th April 2008 15:13 GMT

Stop

What's Herr Flick got to do with anything?

Are we being invited to think that, because the Immigration Minister is alledged to look like Herr Flick, he is probably a Nazi?

I'm starting to tire of the Register's increasingly* childish reporting. I like a candid alternative approach, but this style of reporting is unprofessional and unfair to the individuals mentioned.

(*Or perhaps I'm just getting old?)

AC, you missed the crucial part of the quote 

Posted Monday 14th April 2008 15:30 GMT

"We won't waste taxpayers'’ money with an appeal"

...when there are so many better things we could waste it on.

I doubt they ever really wanted to win - who would do their home makeovers at our expense if all the Poles were kicked out?

A more pressing question 

Posted Monday 14th April 2008 15:32 GMT

Black Helicopters

How far back were they going to backdate it? 1 year? 10 years? 1,000,000 years?

Seriosuly, they'll make all immigrants need an ID card then redefine us all as immigrants!

re: Childish Reporting 

Posted Monday 14th April 2008 15:56 GMT

Unhappy

if you watched the slimy way he tried to weasel his way through the select committee studying this unpleasant policy you'd not think it was unfair to the individual mentioned at all.

I have a number of far more choice words I've, as this is a family site, refrained from using to describe him

@Spleen 

Posted Monday 14th April 2008 16:23 GMT

This has nothing to do with the Poles. EU nationals don't require visas or any sort of permit to live and work in other EU countries for any length of time. (A temporary restriction was enacted on the latest wave of new member states, but not in the round before when Poland joined.)

Too late... 

Posted Monday 14th April 2008 18:36 GMT

Happy

'A Home Office spokesman sent us the following today: "We're happy to take the judge's decision as final. We won't waste taxpayers'’ money with an appeal and will now take the time to consider how to implement the ruling."'

Too late guys, April 1st was two weeks ago...

re: Childish Reporting 

Posted Monday 14th April 2008 19:14 GMT

Boffin

Of course, we should all have online personae like "Little Mad Fish".

Island habitat 

Posted Monday 14th April 2008 19:26 GMT

I agree with Adam Foxton.

We live on an island in the northern hemisphere.

We are all immigrants.

@Island habitat, @A more pressing question 

Posted Monday 14th April 2008 21:52 GMT

Alien

Quite so. Some of us are such recent immigrants that we have a place to go 'back' to. Others don't. Still, I'm sure we'd all be accepted in the USA if it came to that:) Or maybe the Olduvai Gorge, or...

But surely, we *do* all need ID cards, to prove we exist. Hmm. Presumably if we can't prove we exist, then we can't be immigrants and can't be deported. No, shurely shome mishtake.

Mebbyn Kernow! (Aliens, we're all aliens)

Herr Flick 

Posted Tuesday 15th April 2008 08:01 GMT

Actually, I'd never noticed it before but he does in fact look like a fair approximation of Herr Flick...

@Spleen 

Posted Tuesday 15th April 2008 10:23 GMT

Since even a successful appeal would probably go to Europe, where it would certainly be overruled by the European court, it is indeed saving taxpayers' money and civil servants' time. Which may well be wasted in other ways, but at least someone's been showing some rare common sense. Celebrate it.

Now if only the same common sense could be displayed re that bloody stupid ID card scheme...

The seals are happy too.... 

Posted Tuesday 15th April 2008 10:56 GMT

Happy

> I love the country but the people ruling it really make you wonder.

Well, actually they wanted to make you wander.

> I am just waiting for the ID card to come into effect then a quick move back to Canada.

Travelling club class no doubt :)

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