• UK Border Agency 'not good enough' and being scrapped
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[QUOTE][B]The UK Border Agency is to be abolished with its work returning to the Home Office, Theresa May has announced.[/B]The home secretary told MPs "its performance was not good enough". The UK Border Agency was formed in 2008 as an arms-length agency of the Home Office but Mrs May said this had led to a "secretive culture". It will now be split into parts focusing on the visa system and on immigration law enforcement. Both parts will report directly to ministers. It is the second time the UK Border Agency has been split in just over a year. Last year, Mrs May announced that the UK Border Force - responsible for day-to-day operations - would stop being part of the agency and become a separate law-enforcement body.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21941395"]Source is BBC News[/URL] Repeatedly cut an organisation's funding and staffing, then claim it's not working properly and spend money on scrapping it and starting it again - that's the Coalition Way!
I never understood the point of it in the first place to be honest. It almost operated identically to the pre-2008 Home Office agency.
[QUOTE=Camundongo;40045221][URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21941395"]Source is BBC News[/URL] Repeatedly cut an organisation's funding and staffing, then claim it's not working properly and spend money on scrapping it and starting it again - that's the Coalition Way![/QUOTE] Bit of a lame dig at the coalition, the UKBA has had systematic failings for nearly a decade - nothing to do with spending cuts [quote] [url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/9694788/UK-Border-Agency-made-no-effort-to-trace-120000-missing-immigrants.html]source[/url] In February 2007, it emerged that the backlog consisted of up to 450,000 cases [/quote]
[QUOTE=butt2089;40045354]Bit of a lame dig at the coalition, the UKBA has had systematic failings for nearly a decade - nothing to do with spending cuts[/QUOTE] So you agree that cutting spending and staff for the UKBA whilst also expecting it to improve was a sensible option taken by the Coalition? The UKBA has failed, so why spend years and public money on slowly bleeding it dry and splitting it up before eventually dismantling it, instead of doing it earlier? Unless it was the case the Coalition didn't really have any idea what it was doing with it. And of course, this all based that scrapping the UKBA will save more money then improving it, which isn't mentioned anywhere.
rumours are coming through that farage is the new border agency. he's going to stand on the coast and scare away all the dirty foreigners with his bold, patriotic stare [img]http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01650/Nigel_Farage_1650412a.jpg[/img]
Am I the only person who feels that immigration is the UK's Falklands? As in, used to divert attention from, you know, actual issues?
[QUOTE=Camundongo;40045221]Repeatedly cut an organisation's funding and staffing, then claim it's not working properly and spend money on scrapping it and starting it again - that's the Coalition Way![/QUOTE] That's the plan of NHS as well
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