"We won't waste taxpayers money"

That's a first.

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

Mine's the full-length black leather one.

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.

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?)

"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?

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!

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

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.)

'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...

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

I agree with Adam Foxton.

We live on an island in the northern hemisphere.

We are all immigrants.

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)

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

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...

> 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 :)

Dear Team,

After reading this judgement handed down in March, I would like to know what we should be doing next.

As you may already know I, like a host of others have two letters from the Home Office. The first for me was dated January 2005, in it I was advised to file for ILR after continuously staying in the UK for 4 years.

Then came the drama in the name of changes. The government decided to shift the goal post on the field of play while the football match was still on. And like a beggar with no choice, I read in the papers that I had to file for further leave to remain with new conditions and to add salt to injury, a further year was added for me to be entitled to ILR. With cap in hand I did apply for an extension. Was there a choice for me? NO, because I was gullible enough to believe the UK government was a saint where the Rule of Law and human rights are concerned. She will certainly honour Her promises I believed. I was asked to commit that I would make UK my main home.

I did.

What happened next? I have read the green papers on the proposed new route to citizenship.

Now I feel more humiliated and silly. Why? A friend of mine told me he was leaving in 2005 because the new changes was just a tip of the iceberg. He recalled his passport from the Home Office and went to Australia with his family. He gained his Canadian citizenship last May 2007. He calls me from time to time to remind me of our conversation before he left.

The government is busy chasing and making life unbearable for the those of us who legitimately have come to the UK based on her promise to allow us to make UK our home.

Who says China has a high record of human right abuse? At least those living there know the devils they are dealing with. Why the hulabaloo about Mugabe? the government is a pot calling the kettle black.

I am waiting for the next handout..2nd slavery.