Gove slams criticism of ‘ungenerous’ scheme that only helps refugees IF YOU KNOW THEIR NAME
Michael Gove: This Site has better pictures but the Spitting Image dummy’s cheeks look like what he was talking in the House of Commons.
Housing and Communities Secretary Michael Gove had a rather spectacular meltdown in the House of Commons when he attacked critics of the government’s new Homes for Ukraine scheme.
Let’s have a look, shall we?
Michael Gove – "I've had it up to here with people trying to suggest that this country is not generous… all the stuff about hostile environments, that was invented under a Labour home secretary… so can we just chuck it on the partisan nonsense & get on with delivering" pic.twitter.com/EsKqbv4Xk7
— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) March 14, 2022
This Writer recalls there were a few allegations about him flirting with a certain white powder a while ago. Based on this performance, one has to question whether the claim was accurate.
He banged on the Dispatch Box, he strutted up and down the Chamber, he wagged his fingers around in aimless gestures, and as for his language… “Chuck it?” Really?
Let’s have a look at that “ungenerous” claim.
Under the new scheme, people who wish to offer a rent-free space in their home or a separate residence, for at least six months, can register their interest online.
Each household housing a refugee will be offered £350 a month, tax-free. They will not be expected to provide food and living expenses but can choose to offer this.
But they can only sponsor a Ukrainian national to receive an entry visa into the UK if they already know the individual by name.
Bearing in mind that 43,800 people signed up for the scheme in its first five hours, I wonder whether they all have that kind of connection with people from the eastern European country.
Time will tell but people are already having their say about Gove’s outburst – and it hasn’t been complimentary:
https://twitter.com/LemSip27/status/1503414802898685954
Is there anything more Tory than Michael Gove strutting about with his tits up, pretending to lose his temper about honest and, frankly, kind evaluations of Government policies as ungenerous while claiming Theresa May was a Labour Home Secretary?
— Helen the Zen 🏴 💙 🍉 (@helenmallam) March 14, 2022
(Gove was probably referring to a claim that the “hostile environment” policy was made possible because a Labour Home Secretary (Alan Johnson?) authorised the destruction of many documents proving that people of the so-called Windrush Generation (for example) had a right of residence in the UK. The documents were destroyed during the term of his successor, Theresa May, though.
May went on to coin the term in a 2012 speech: “The aim is to create, here in Britain, a really hostile environment for illegal immigrants.” So it is her policy – a Conservative policy.
Michael Gove, why don't you ask the Windrush victims or Afghan refugees if the UK is generous?
— Daniela Nadj (@DanielaNadj) March 14, 2022
What a theatrical huff from Gove, shouting that he’s had it with accusations that ‘this country isn’t generous’.
The accusations aren’t towards the country but its govt, Gove’s govt.
The one that slashed foreign aid and exploited fear of immigration to turn bigotry into policy.— sarah murphy (@13sarahmurphy) March 14, 2022
The last point is very good: the accusations aren’t that the UK isn’t generous but that the Conservative government running it isn’t.
The UK’s citizens didn’t create the conditions under which Windrush people were thrown out, and they didn’t create the conditions in which Ukrainian refugees are being refused entry.
A Tory government is – one that contained Michael Gove in some capacity.
He’s got a lot of cheek, coming out with that.
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Gove has a fit of male hysteria because he didn’t like being told the truth about his fascist tory dictatorship’s latest ‘wheeze!’ I knew the fascist tories would ensure no Ukrainian refugee would have right of entry into little england! So who dreamed up this latest wheeze – demanding individuals living in UK know the name or names of Ukrainian refugees before they can offer them a safe place to live? No guesses it is some nameless fascist tory lackey doing the fascist tory masters’ bidding!
Gove I’m not part of your fascist tory dictatorship so it is you and your fascist tory boys who created this hostile and xenophobic stance concerning refugees!
EU countries have publicly shamed you Gove and your fascist colleagues but still you play the victim card!