Excoriating report on Tory concentration camps is buried on last day of Parliament
Priti Patel doesn’t like answering hard questions: in this image she was defending Boris Johnson over ‘herd immunity’ so no wonder she has dodged interrogation over herding immigrants into overcrowded concentration camps to catch Covid-19 or get burnt when fires break out.
The Tories made sure a searing report on their failure to provide habitable accommodation for immigrants would not receive proper scrutiny – by releasing it the day after the relevant Parliamentary committee met for the last time before the summer recess.
The delay is all the more deplorable because Priti Patel has had the report by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration for months – but sat on it because she doesn’t like to be criticised – poor widdle baby!
According to the Mirror, the report only came out now because Labour’s Yvette Cooper accused Patel of delaying its release “for many months” in a “Kafkaesque” situation.
(Has Patel read Kafka? She probably thought he was a grotty foreign Communist and stuck to Ayn Rand and Mein Kampf.)
Conditions in her camps at Penally, Pembrokeshire, and Napier Barracks in Kent, certainly reflect the philosophy of Nazism (such as it is).
The reports findings certainly suggest that Patel followed Hitlerian thinking. It said overcrowding meant a major Covid outbreak at Napier was “virtually inevitable” once just one person was infected.
There was no way to isolate anybody; the outbreak eventually infected hundreds of people. Did anybody die? This Writer hasn’t seen the statistics.
And the report said: “Despite a large fire at Napier, inadequate action had been taken to address ongoing serious fire safety concerns.”
Furthermore, it said: “Managers at both sites lacked the experience and skills to run large-scale communal accommodation.
“Home Office staff were rarely present at either site. There were fundamental failures of leadership and planning by the Home Office, which had led to dangerous shortcomings in the nature of the accommodation and poor experiences for the residents.”
Yes indeed – they were locked into the camp, packed together like sardines, and treated like criminals even though they had not committed any crime.
A Home Office spokesperson said the government department has made “significant improvements” since the report was put together – which itself indicates that Patel withheld its release for an unacceptably long time.
And there has been a strong effort to hide events at the camp from public view. I’m not just referring to the intimidation of a photographer who took images of protests outside, either.
Simply withholding the report while changes were made is dishonest. It should have been published on receipt, and independent reviewers invited to examine any changes, to ensure that they were fit for purpose.
That hasn’t happened.
It is easy to form your own conclusion about the reason: Patel is a racist and hates immigrants – especially because she is herself a daughter of immigrants.
Source: All the bad news the Tory government buried hours before MPs’ summer holiday – Mirror Online
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‘A Home Office spokesperson said the government department has made “significant improvements” since the report was put together – which itself indicates that Patel withheld its release for an unacceptably long time.’
Hahhah – this is gallows humour – Home Office staff are rotten to the core because they routinely issue lies and no nothing has changed at those concentration camps!
Do not forget puppet Patel has a white male master named little fascist dictator duck johnson but as usual she is being blamed whilst little fascist dictator duck johnson disappears into ‘the ether!’
Whilst Patel is responsible for carrying out little fascist dictator duck johnson’s orders he is the one wholly responsible because he is supposedly a fake prime minister! ‘Buck stops with duck johnson’ except he never takes responsibility for his fascist crimes!
So who decided to force migrants into concentration camps? No guesses it wasn’t Patel it was duck johnson and his male fascist tory masters.
Oh, it was Patel all right. Johnson approves though.
If my memory serves me well, I am sure I read that Napier was full of asbestos. What a worrying legacy for these poor souls who were ‘housed’ there….