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Tag Archives: Home Office
20 months on the WC?
Political constipation is not unknown in the Home Office, but it is not something to be encouraged, particularly when other parts of the same department appear to have the Political equivalent of the runs. According to this report a request for … Continue reading
A tale of two Islands
This morning 19 year old Mauritian Yashika Bageerathi has been told that Air Mauritius cannot or will not transport her to her country of origin, despite her possessing a ticket for travel. This decision will hopefully add pressure onto the Home … Continue reading
We’ve got it so we must use it!
Some of us are occasionally tempted to buy gadgets that we don’t need right now, but look shiny and new and persuade us that they will come in useful before too long. So the gadget comes home and you spend time getting … Continue reading
Consultation deniers
The timing of the Newsnight interview with Russell Brand and this piece of analysis by Mark Easton of the BBC could not be more inconvenient for the Government and for Parliament as a whole. While Russell was explaining his desire for a … Continue reading
Do we get the Ministers WE deserve?
This weeks Cabinet reshuffle took place just over a year since David Cameron’s first reshuffle and according to various reports, a year before his final reshuffle which will be the one when he delivers on his 2010 election promise on gender balance … Continue reading
Bone is at it again
I wrote last weekend following comments made by Peter Bone MP in the light of the appalling campaign by the Home Office using advertising vans. Yesterdays World At One on Radio 4 once again reflected on this campaign, partly because … Continue reading
Far worse than the vans!
On Tuesday I wrote about the advertising campaign that the Home Office has organised, supposedly to try to deal with illegal immigration. My point on that occasion was that the vans were likely to stir up fear and insecurity amongst people who … Continue reading
Sauce for the Gander
The controversial decision by the Home Office to use advertising vans to intensify an already very active debate on illegal immigrants has inevitably cause a great deal of distress to many people including those whose families have been resident in the UK … Continue reading
We need good links to the Home Office
In the eight months since the election of the 41 Police and Crime Commissioners across England and Wales, the relationship between Chief Constable and Police and Crime Commissioner has varied from the positive and warm to the down right hostile … Continue reading
Posted in Community Safety, Parliament and Democracy, Police & Crime Commissioner, Policing
Tagged Association of Chief Police Officers, Conservative Party, Government, Home Office, Home Secretary, Hugh Orde, Independent Candidates, Labour Party, Police and Crime Commissioner, Theresa May, Whitehall
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Don’t blank us again
The Police and Crime Commissioner elections in November 2012 were organised by the Home Office, a Government agency unused to such work. They have been widely criticised since by the Electoral Commission and Electoral Reform Society, two organisations whose focus is … Continue reading
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