| This seems bizarre from the home office 08:15 - Apr 9 with 1987 views | StokieBlue |
Passport office workers have been asked to go back to work. Doesn't seem like essential work given nobody is going on holiday anytime soon so won't need their passports.
On Tuesday, staff were told by a Home Office scientific adviser 80% of people would get Covid-19 in the end and "we can't hide away from it forever".
It's just going to mean more people moving about for no real reason.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52219930
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| This seems bizarre from the home office on 08:36 - Apr 9 with 1475 views | artsbossbeard |
It's an utterly bizarre move, which is difficult to comprehend. |  |
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| This seems bizarre from the home office on 08:37 - Apr 9 with 1476 views | Steve_M |
It does. Then again the line: "we can't hide away from it forever" is more than a little ironic given the Home Secretary has seemingly disappeared. |  |
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| This seems bizarre from the home office on 09:05 - Apr 9 with 1404 views | sparks |
It is not the only example I am aware of in the public sector, which in at least some quarters has been extraordinarily slow to implement the sort of measures that private sector business put in place swiftly. |  |
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| Patel is the Lambert of the cabinet.... on 09:28 - Apr 9 with 1347 views | Bloots |
….if I wasn't for the current situation she'd be out on her ear.
She got the job because she talked a good game and was relatively high profile, but in reality was totally incompetent. |  |
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| Patel is the Lambert of the cabinet.... on 09:36 - Apr 9 with 1326 views | BlueBadger |
| Patel is the Lambert of the cabinet.... on 09:28 - Apr 9 by Bloots |
….if I wasn't for the current situation she'd be out on her ear.
She got the job because she talked a good game and was relatively high profile, but in reality was totally incompetent. |
So, no different to her colleagues? |  |
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| She's definitely one of the worst mate..... on 09:40 - Apr 9 with 1309 views | Bloots |
| Patel is the Lambert of the cabinet.... on 09:36 - Apr 9 by BlueBadger |
So, no different to her colleagues? |
….I'm not particularly "political", but her smarmy, smug approach to life and work is too much to take.
And to make things worse, she's my MP!
I'm not in a good mood today.
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| She's definitely one of the worst mate..... on 09:43 - Apr 9 with 1303 views | BlueBadger |
| She's definitely one of the worst mate..... on 09:40 - Apr 9 by Bloots |
….I'm not particularly "political", but her smarmy, smug approach to life and work is too much to take.
And to make things worse, she's my MP!
I'm not in a good mood today.
Sorry x |
Cheer up Blootsy, Lambert will probably get the sack soon. | |
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| This seems bizarre from the home office on 09:44 - Apr 9 with 1295 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| This seems bizarre from the home office on 09:05 - Apr 9 by sparks |
It is not the only example I am aware of in the public sector, which in at least some quarters has been extraordinarily slow to implement the sort of measures that private sector business put in place swiftly. |
This is not the time for political opportunism Sparks!
Empirical evidence please.  |  |
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| This seems bizarre from the home office on 09:46 - Apr 9 with 1288 views | sparks |
| This seems bizarre from the home office on 09:44 - Apr 9 by BanksterDebtSlave |
This is not the time for political opportunism Sparks!
Empirical evidence please. |
What on earth are you on about you despicable loon? | |
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| This seems bizarre from the home office on 10:01 - Apr 9 with 1257 views | gordon |
Would have thought passports aren't going to be that useful for the next year or so anyway, to be honest! |  | | |
| This seems bizarre from the home office on 10:08 - Apr 9 with 1239 views | GeoffSentence |
| This seems bizarre from the home office on 10:01 - Apr 9 by gordon |
Would have thought passports aren't going to be that useful for the next year or so anyway, to be honest! |
It's put my mind at rest. My passport runs out this month and I still have a trip which could go ahead in September. |  |
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| This seems bizarre from the home office on 10:09 - Apr 9 with 1239 views | WeWereZombies |
Nobody is going on holiday soon I guess but that is not the only reason for travel and, if you let control fall on movement, essential international business is either compromised or goes ahead haphazardly. And then there are the hundreds of thousands of Britons who find themselves overseas for a fair bit longer than they expected and may need new passports or documents to help them get home. |  |
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| This seems bizarre from the home office on 10:18 - Apr 9 with 1222 views | Pinewoodblue |
Can understand the logic, doubt many people have been applying for Passports but they know how many passport requests are likely to be received in the next six months.
It is muddled thinking though as it sends out the wrong message especially to those inclined to ignore the government rules. If it is OK to go to work on a bus then it is OK to go to the beach etc,
Just another example of poor decision making within the public sector. Up there with the decision by Public Health England to keep testing for covid-19 in house and not even involve the NHS. A decision which will no doubt be proven to have cost many lives.
Can foresee a number of early retirements in the months ahead. |  |
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| This seems bizarre from the home office on 10:42 - Apr 9 with 1195 views | StokieBlue |
| This seems bizarre from the home office on 10:09 - Apr 9 by WeWereZombies |
Nobody is going on holiday soon I guess but that is not the only reason for travel and, if you let control fall on movement, essential international business is either compromised or goes ahead haphazardly. And then there are the hundreds of thousands of Britons who find themselves overseas for a fair bit longer than they expected and may need new passports or documents to help them get home. |
Most of those people abroad would have valid passports to have gotten to where they are and should have at least 6 months left on them. If they live there then there is no need for them to travel to the UK.
A few people might need passports because they have lost them or whatever but a skeleton amount of people would be enough for that.
It just seems to contradict the other positions of the government.
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| Patel is the Lambert of the cabinet.... on 10:44 - Apr 9 with 1191 views | Keno |
| Patel is the Lambert of the cabinet.... on 09:28 - Apr 9 by Bloots |
….if I wasn't for the current situation she'd be out on her ear.
She got the job because she talked a good game and was relatively high profile, but in reality was totally incompetent. |
will you all stop with the posts having a pop at Lambert!!
I'm sure he is doing his best |  |
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| This seems bizarre from the home office on 10:45 - Apr 9 with 1187 views | itfcjoe |
| This seems bizarre from the home office on 10:42 - Apr 9 by StokieBlue |
Most of those people abroad would have valid passports to have gotten to where they are and should have at least 6 months left on them. If they live there then there is no need for them to travel to the UK.
A few people might need passports because they have lost them or whatever but a skeleton amount of people would be enough for that.
It just seems to contradict the other positions of the government.
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Not that I disagree with going back being a bad thing - but I'd guess the supply of passports has natural peaks and troughs throughout the year and if it completely stops will be in a position where it becomes impossible to catch up which no one will accept if they need one |  |
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| Patel is the Lambert of the cabinet.... on 10:52 - Apr 9 with 1171 views | SomethingBlue |
| Patel is the Lambert of the cabinet.... on 09:28 - Apr 9 by Bloots |
….if I wasn't for the current situation she'd be out on her ear.
She got the job because she talked a good game and was relatively high profile, but in reality was totally incompetent. |
She has the added problem of being a genuinely nasty piece of work. |  |
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| This seems bizarre from the home office on 10:54 - Apr 9 with 1169 views | TractorWood |
When the Government's advice is to avoid all foreign travel it seems counter intuitive to get the passport office back up and running. |  |
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| This seems bizarre from the home office on 11:43 - Apr 9 with 1110 views | gordon |
| This seems bizarre from the home office on 10:42 - Apr 9 by StokieBlue |
Most of those people abroad would have valid passports to have gotten to where they are and should have at least 6 months left on them. If they live there then there is no need for them to travel to the UK.
A few people might need passports because they have lost them or whatever but a skeleton amount of people would be enough for that.
It just seems to contradict the other positions of the government.
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It's also not beyond the wit of man for countries to agree to add 6 months onto the end of passport expiry dates. | | | |
| True, Shambert does have that advantage over her. (n/t) on 11:48 - Apr 9 with 1092 views | Bloots |
| Patel is the Lambert of the cabinet.... on 10:52 - Apr 9 by SomethingBlue |
She has the added problem of being a genuinely nasty piece of work. |
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| This seems bizarre from the home office on 11:50 - Apr 9 with 1087 views | Pinewoodblue |
| This seems bizarre from the home office on 10:42 - Apr 9 by StokieBlue |
Most of those people abroad would have valid passports to have gotten to where they are and should have at least 6 months left on them. If they live there then there is no need for them to travel to the UK.
A few people might need passports because they have lost them or whatever but a skeleton amount of people would be enough for that.
It just seems to contradict the other positions of the government.
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They are talking about having 25% of staff working. At first sight it is sensible but it gives the wrong message to the idiot minority. | |
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| This seems bizarre from the home office on 12:03 - Apr 9 with 1060 views | NthQldITFC |
Any feeling that it could be to do with ID within the country? |  |
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| This seems bizarre from the home office on 12:19 - Apr 9 with 1036 views | WeWereZombies |
| This seems bizarre from the home office on 11:43 - Apr 9 by gordon |
It's also not beyond the wit of man for countries to agree to add 6 months onto the end of passport expiry dates. |
But it probably beyond the bounds of being a jobsworth in straightened times. | |
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| This seems bizarre from the home office on 12:24 - Apr 9 with 1020 views | Swansea_Blue |
| This seems bizarre from the home office on 08:36 - Apr 9 by artsbossbeard |
It's an utterly bizarre move, which is difficult to comprehend. |
It's easier to understand when you remember the crackpots in government wanted us to develop herd immunity naturally and not through use of a vaccine. I suspect those views still run quite deep.
And then there are the tensions between money and health - we have a government obsessed with the former at the expense of the latter. |  |
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