We literally are a "papers, please" society - the whole and explicit point of the "Hostile Environment" policies introduced by this government's predecessors, and still in force, is to make a wide range of service providers demand papers of every not-citizen resident here.
https://twitter.com/darrenmccaffrey/status/1470323491891257346
What to study here? "Papers, please" (every month of your course)
Want to work here? "Papers, please"
Want to rent a flat here? "Papers, please"
Get sick and need healthcare? "Papers, please"
Want to work here? "Papers, please"
Want to rent a flat here? "Papers, please"
Get sick and need healthcare? "Papers, please"
The Windrush scandal, which Mr Fysh may remember, was a"papers, please" scandal. The government imposed these bureaucratic demands, without foresight or forethought, on people who had lived here for decades, perfectly legally. Then wrecked their lives.
Perhaps the "thin end of the authoritarian wedge" was not the bill asking for an NHS QR code to enter a stadium, but rather the bill which led to legally resident pensioners being deported in the middle of the night to countries they had never seen?
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