NOT IN OUR NAME -
PROTECTING NEW SCOTS.
by Ruth Wishart (Dec 29, 2018)
So in the midst of what has been felicitously described as a "clusterbourach", the hapless UK government has just published a disgusting guide to how UK residents of European origin can apply to buy themselves the right to stay somewhere they have already made a home and a career, paid their taxes, and often brought up a family with a British born spouse. Crassly insensitive doesn't begin to describe the appalling nature of this latest attack on common decency by an administration whose serial incompetence and callousness already knew few bounds.
This invitation to seek and fill in documentation to prove you are who you are, send it off to some nameless scribe in the Home Office, bung the government a fat fee for doing so, and then, if this profoundly insulting exercise is accepted, find yourself in a new class of numbered citizenry forever liable to status checks is disgusting. It is gross. It is disgraceful. And, to add insult to considerable personal injury, the Scottish Government has been told - instructed - that it must not pay the upfront fees of Scottish applicants. That the Scottish Governent has subsequently tried to ameliorate the situation by promising to re-imburse our citizens from mainland Europe further down the line only partially addresses this outrage.
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