British Home Secretary Amber Rudd resigns hours after Guardian publishes deportation targets letter

[malaise]

Bravo Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/apr/29/amber-rudd-resigns-as-home-secretary-after-windrush-scandal
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Amber Rudd has resigned as home secretary after repeatedly struggling to explain her role in the unjust treatment of Windrush generation migrants.

The home secretary had faced mounting pressure over her role in setting the culture and policies that led to long-term residents of Britain from Caribbean countries being denied healthcare, pensions and benefits, and in some cases being threatened with deportation.

Rudd had been due to appear before parliament on Monday to explain apparent discrepancies between her evidence to the home affairs select committee last week and a memo leaked to the Guardian that linked her to targets for removing migrants.

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Never forget - you begged our people to come after you killed your own men in wars

[Exotica]

1. GREAT NEWS!!

It is bloody outrageous what is being done to some of the Windrush gen.

[malaise]

3. You know whatmakes it worse

The English queen is still head of State in most of the English-speaking Caribbean

[Exotica]

5. I am a dual UK/US citizen, and also of half West Indian descent, and I am an rabid anti-royalist

I detest our "royal" family. Here were I am going to school, in the social democratic, LW Nordics, it is even more insane to have a royal family.

[malaise]

6. +1,000

I detest all royals.

The sad truth is that while Amber Rudd is just another liar, this was all Theresa May's doing as Home Sec.
She should resign.

[Exotica]

7. my motto has been been and always will be... FUCK THE TORIES

[triron]

2. The Guardian is a good rep of the media.

[malaise]

4. The best of them all

in my opinion

[HipChick]

8. GOOD!...This is a huge freaking scandal..

[malaise]

9. Nice piece in the WP

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/british-government-slips-further-into-turmoil-over-immigration-fiasco/2018/04/30/55e0503a-4c77-11e8-84a0-458a1aa9ac0a_story.html?utm_term=.203a41c79de7
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With less than a year to go before Britain leaves the European Union — a decision voters made in part to stem immigration — the government is confronting a scandal over its treatment of migrants, both legal and illegal.

Opposition lawmakers stepped up pressure Monday on Prime Minister Theresa May to answer for her role in an official policy to create, in her words, a “hostile environment” for those in the country illegally — a policy that also ensnared a generation of legal arrivals from the Caribbean who were welcomed to Britain to help it rebuild after World War II.

Late Sunday, Amber Rudd resigned as Britain’s home secretary following accusations that she lied to Parliament last week about deportation targets for illegal immigrants.

Rudd first told Parliament that there were no national quotas, then amended her remarks and said that maybe there were some. Finally, the Guardian produced a private letter Rudd sent to May outlining her commitment to increase deportations by 10 percent, which included numbers and targets.

[HipChick]

10. Theresa May needs to answer too!

thanks Malaise!

[malaise]

11. Yes she does

she's up S creek!