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Priti Patel attempting to get top Home office civil servants fired after they refuse to oversee illegal deportations.

Cabinet secretary called in to mediate...
Also seems a home official “collapsed” after a row with Patel and had to be taken to hospital amid rumours of “intense bullying”.

Seems the Home Office is a rather unpleasant environment to work in at present.
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The Independent now has some details on some of this in public domain:

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
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More allegations regarding Priti Patel and illegality (if rather diplomatically phrased) leaking out into mainstream press today:

news.sky.com/story/priti-pa…
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Spot the difference:

1. There will not be cuts to farming subsidies outside the EU.

2. There will be cuts to farming subsidies outside the EU.

The great sell out of British farmers begins.
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For those asking for the direct link here it is:

Against all commitments before, & even after the referendum, that farming subsidies wouldn’t be cut after Brexit.......DEFRA confirms that farming subsidies will be.....cut.

....immediately.
fwi.co.uk/news/farm-poli…
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Hard to exaggerate crisis hitting UK farming now - within space of just months UK farmers face:

1. Reductions in subsidies
2. Potential (tariff free) competition from cheaper lower regulated countries
3. Greater restrictions (& perhaps with tariffs) to its main EU export mkt
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Something very curious happening right now in British agriculture...

UK farming standards are not only high but many of the EU agri standards are based on UK input, UK farmers want to keep them high for both moral & trade cynical reasons so do UK consumers..

So why the problem?
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It’s a paradox:
If UK keeps UK agri standards to EU level - which everyone wants - people will say:
“what’s the point of Brexit?”

But if it doesn’t it loses huge EU export market for the right to change standards it doesn’t want or need to change.

There’s only one way out.
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The UK govts only chance now is to find a way to disguise following EU agri/food standards - which it itself helped set - in such a way as to:

1. Convince people it has sovereignty
2. Convince EU it won’t use that sovereignty

It’s pointless.
It’s insane.
It’s Brexit.
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Nick🇬🇧🇪🇺
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Theres 140 000 UK employed foreign care workers.

Given job churn alone - 25 000+ jobs will have to be replaced annually. At present 9% of care sector positions currently unfilled. These jobs meet neither salary, skill points criteria.

As from 2021 what do you think will happen?
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Given that almost 80 000 care positions are unfilled - with similar high rates through the austerity years - it’s clear EU care workers are in no way “crowding out” UK care workers. So..

...what has to happen for 100 000 Brits to take on care jobs they refused to do before?
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Acc to govt own estimates the number of care workers will have to increase by up to half a million in next 15 years due to ageing.

But care workers explicitly fail new immigration points criteria.

What will happen to all these elderly, disabled & in need people?
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