Cuts to legal aid are forcing the closure of almost a third of Shelter’s housing advice centres and compelling the Red Cross to abandon its assistance for family reunions, the organisations claim. Family reunions? Why the fiends! Wait. What sort of ‘family’ are we talking about here? The British Red Cross says the cuts will force it to withdraw expert help to those trying to bring their children into the United…
Immigrants attempting to gain residency in Blackburn have said a new citizenship test for foreign nationals will not equip them for life in the UK. The Life in the UK exam focuses on British history, with no requirement to know how to register with a GP, how to ring for an ambulance, or what to do if someone is attacking your neighbour which is currently required. Oh noes! No advanced…
The ‘Indy’ waxes rhapsodic about plans for the Olympic village now all the hoo-ha has died down: The future of the vast Olympic media centre remains uncertain until the iCITY consortium, proposing a “digital cluster”, can convince the Mayor it has enough tenants to create the 4,500 skilled jobs pledged to the taxpayer in return for meeting the £330m cost of building the facility. Who’ll take those jobs? The basketball…
…is that sooner or later, you find your back against the cliff. Sometimes literally: The council wants to build 1,200 homes across the borough and is promising a mix of council homes and first time buyer schemes, but residents say it could damage the character of the town. It’s already evident in Southend itself that the character of the town has changed, and not for the better, thanks to its proximity to…
Shared houses and bedsits in a Lincolnshire town may need to be licensed under new proposals. The policy has been put forward as a solution to tensions that councillors say have arisen from a growing population and Eastern European immigration. And just how will it do that? Are the licenses going to be restricted? The idea is one of 28 recommendations in a major report on social issues in the…
Peter Threlfall is a man after my own heart: he wants to migrate to Australia. Okay, in fairness it must be said that he wants to move to South Australia where, I am reliably informed by Mrs Exile, they’re all a bit weird (no idea, I think it might some long standing rivalry over who’s got the best arts festival or something). And also he wants to be a cop,…
A Nigerian rapist escaped deportation yesterday after European judges ruled he had a right to a ‘private life’ in Britain. Yes, once again, it’s the ECHR who are at fault: Akindoyin Akinshipe, 24, was due to be sent home after losing appeal after appeal in the British courtsover his jailing for an attack on a girl of 13.But in a staggering reversal yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights said…
When Larkin came upon Coventry that time (as is immortalised in the poem), he was reminded that his childhood was not remarkable. These days, however, a child’s experience of Cov (as we call it from neighbouring town, Dav – imagine, then, the Warwicks/Northants accent) is a whole different ball game for the starving offspring of the seemingly huge immigrant population there. What was going on at the inner city Coventry…
So, the Yazzmonster spent some time at Hay-On-Wye: … listening to supreme intellectuals sharing their quirky insights, seeing young people passionately engaged, meeting thoughtful punters – it really did feel like one of the best weekends of my life. Sounds delightful. Until… That bliss was unexpectedly shattered at around 4.30 pm on Saturday. I’d just been on a panel with two speakers discussing the web, the effects of travel and…
The UK depends on immigration, no-one doubts that, however it’s the type of immigration that is now causing concern. When the Labour party were in power, they opened the floodgates to mass uncontrolled immigration ostensibly as Andrew Neather, a former adviser to Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett put it, “to rub the right’s nose in diversity and multiculturalism.” Though this attempt at social engineering has created far more…
…something we associate with East End villians, or the US Mafia. They make salacious reading, fill the true crime sections of bookstores, and provide the basis for many a blockbuster crime series. The modern reality isn’t so glamorous: When police watched horrifying CCTV footage of a young mother being shot dead, they thought it was the work of a professional hitman. The images show how Gulistan Subasi, 26, was blasted in the chest…
It says something about the state of the university system now in England where they will just take the money despite the fact that there is simply no way that the students language skills are adequate enough to meet the degree course criteria. Telegraph. A university has admitted taking on PhD students with poor standards of English – fuelling high drop-out rates. Derby University said just 40 per cent of…
Ok, Every country has people leaving, and people coming. Not everyone is happy with his or her country regardless of where they are in the world; this is not something unique to England or the UK. But what is clear is that large numbers of native-born English are leaving or wanting to leave the UK and it is much larger then ever before and whilst I could not find proper…
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