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Given even the Home Office, an organisation which has basically institutionalised cruelty, is finding this one hard to stomach, I think the point is more that y

Given even the Home Office, an organisation which has basically institutionalised cruelty, is finding this one hard to stomach, I think the point is more that you have to look at the motivations for why they went with this idea: red meat for the mouth breathers.

Veen 4y ago
If by "mouth breathers" you mean the majority of the UK population who would like immigration reduced, then yes, it probably is meant to appeal to them.
- maxehmookau 4y ago
  I think by "mouth breathers" they mean folks who are willing to dehumanise folks less lucky than themselves to have been born somewhere with relative economic prosperity because this is "our country". Also, those same people who are willing to buy newspapers that _gleefully_ employ columnists who also dehumanise these humans on an almost daily basis. People who fall for populist nonsense just before an election spouted from a government who have, over more than a decade, entirely failed to reduce immigration and yet convince the electorate that they're the best people for that particular job. I also reject the notion that the majority of the population would like immigration reduced (I certainly don't, especially refugees fleeing wars that we are at least, in part, responsible for). Considering the chronic shortage of skilled workers in the UK (due to our underfunded education system), I don't see how that's possible.
  - philk10 4y ago
    and the pushback policy has now been withdrawn - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/25/uk-refugee-pushback-policy-withdrawn-judicial-review-priti-patel https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/25/uk-refugee-p...
    - maxehmookau 4y ago
      Shocker /s Almost like they knew it was going to end like this but now they can say that they tried, only to be stopped by the "activist judges". (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54687081 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54687081) This government's attacks on the judiciary is nothing short of awful.

Veen 4y ago

If by "mouth breathers" you mean the majority of the UK population who would like immigration reduced, then yes, it probably is meant to appeal to them.

maxehmookau 4y ago
I think by "mouth breathers" they mean folks who are willing to dehumanise folks less lucky than themselves to have been born somewhere with relative economic prosperity because this is "our country". Also, those same people who are willing to buy newspapers that _gleefully_ employ columnists who also dehumanise these humans on an almost daily basis. People who fall for populist nonsense just before an election spouted from a government who have, over more than a decade, entirely failed to reduce immigration and yet convince the electorate that they're the best people for that particular job. I also reject the notion that the majority of the population would like immigration reduced (I certainly don't, especially refugees fleeing wars that we are at least, in part, responsible for). Considering the chronic shortage of skilled workers in the UK (due to our underfunded education system), I don't see how that's possible.
- philk10 4y ago
  and the pushback policy has now been withdrawn - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/25/uk-refugee-pushback-policy-withdrawn-judicial-review-priti-patel https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/25/uk-refugee-p...
  - maxehmookau 4y ago
    Shocker /s Almost like they knew it was going to end like this but now they can say that they tried, only to be stopped by the "activist judges". (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54687081 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54687081) This government's attacks on the judiciary is nothing short of awful.