"You can't react to every piece of flotsam on the unending tide of nastiness that emanates from Westminster on the subject of immigration, or you'll start to feel like you're the idiot. Are we surprised that a Labour home secretary would want to remove any prospect of permanent citizenship for all refugees, thereby ending Britain's standing as a place of sanctuary? Petty, vindictive, counterproductive, narrow-minded, yes, but you could hardly call this surprising."
"Apparently, she wanted to seize the jewellery and other valuables to pay for their accommodation.Deploying exaggeration to underscore how much like a cartoon villain a politician sounds is a little bit sixth form and so far hasn't been effective. And yet it couldn't possibly be real, right? Because it sounds like a cartoon villain. Except this is a real idea, borrowed from Denmark's similar provision in 2016."
A Labour home secretary proposed removing prospects of permanent citizenship for refugees and seizing their jewellery and valuables to pay for accommodation. The proposal would end Britain's standing as a place of sanctuary and is described as petty, vindictive, counterproductive and narrow-minded. The idea has parallels with Denmark's 2016 provision that allowed confiscation of valuables, which raised questions about compatibility with EU law and faced scepticism from Danish police who questioned seizing possessions from vulnerable people. The Danish law saw minimal use—only 17 applications in six years—and may have been symbolic rather than practical, similar to previous performative immigration measures.
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