The ultimate the “bad guy” here isn’t really the local authority, the devolved administration or even the outsourcers — it’s the Home Office. But their demonstrable badness only adds to the vicious cycle of rival nationalisms.
Asylum seekers
Thousands of asylum seekers have been left without money or access to food for 10 days, as the Home Office transferred to a new contract – many of the new prepaid debit cards either did not arrive, could not be activated, or were without money.
Asylum Seekers Face Further ‘Bureaucratic Violence’ in Aspen Card Scandal
This year, the 70th anniversary of the year of the UN Refugee Convention, refugees have been given the right to vote in the Scottish Parliamentary elections for the first time.
This Election Sees Refugees Given Right to Vote For the First Time
“Those who look after others may be some of society’s heroes, but they are also sometimes taking on service roles which should be provided by the government.”
Peter Markham: Why Westminster is turning the UK into a group of ‘Justgiving’ nations
“The UK has rejected thousands of asylum claims from LGBT people who’ve come from countries where consensual same-sex acts are against the law. Having their identity forensically challenged and ultimately disbelieved adds unbearable psychological strain on those who may already have been marginalised and faced the threat of violence or death in their home countries just because of who they are.”
Peter Markham: Treatment of LBGT asylum seekers in Europe and the UK remains unacceptable
The breaking news is that US President Donald Trump has tested positive for covid-19. It comes just five weeks ahead of the US Presidential election. That news somewhat puts in the shade Margaret Ferrier MP’s misdemeanours. The SNP MP travelled on train to London while awaiting a test result despite already having experienced “mild symptoms”, […]
A Home Office inspired dystopia is closer than you think
Charities and MPs are calling for an inquiry into the living conditions of asylum seekers, and the procurement process that led to hotel detentions.
Renewed Calls to Address Living Conditions for Asylum Seekers Following Stabbing
The stabbings in Park Inn hotel in Glasgow on Friday are an awful outcome of a system which breaks many of the people caught in its vice. Of course not everyone put through the savagery of the Home Office’s asylum seeker system and locked away in a hotel room for months goes on to commit […]
A terrible outcome of an awful system that leaves no one safe
It is difficult to think of many things more contemptible than a protest which intimidates and violently attacks asylum seekers and refugees. The last thing someone who is just trying to get a safe place to live, and may well be experiencing trauma having been forced to flee war or social strife in their homeland, […]