Scrapping UKBA

So Overlord May is killing UKBA: http://politics.co.uk/news/2013/03/26/revolution-in-immigration-system-as-theresa-may-splits-ukba

Anyone else watching Parliament talking about it right now? http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=12928

Whoa.... that's pretty big news!  I can't tell what's going to happen now or how we'll be affected, but I hope it's for the better.....    but that's probably just wishful thinking......

Glad I don't have any visas in process with the UKBA now..... I can't imagine what they've got to do with all those applications now...... yikes.   

This is like the 3rd or 4th time this kind of thing has happened since I've been here, it doesn't tend to affect processing times as it's primarily a rebranding exercise with changes mostly at the top levels that don't deal with the day-to-day stuff.

Oh, allow me to 'translate' this for ya!

T. May is getting herself a new laptop. And a bigger office. And a second job title.

This is like the 3rd or 4th time this kind of thing has happened since I've been here, it doesn't tend to affect processing times as it's primarily a rebranding exercise with changes mostly at the top levels that don't deal with the day-to-day stuff.

Yeah, the last buzz I heard was that this was going back to more 'like it used to be' - under the Home Office, under New Labour. Before the Tories decided to reinvent the wheel. But whatever. Much of a muchness. 

Supposedly they are updating the computer system.

(Translation: Ms May is getting the new Ipad, and possibly a kindle)

Supposedly they are updating the computer system.

(Translation: Ms May is getting the new Ipad, and possibly a kindle)

Hah! I certainly hope that's all it means, but given the cloak-and-dagger, we-decided-overnight-last-night business, I wonder what May et al are actually up to. Processing times are one thing, but what are they going to do the process itself now? Then again, no one would describe me as a trusting optimist at even the best of times.

Can they scrap Teresa May as well? Or at least make her get rid of that ridiculous dress that makes her look like an astronaut who lost her helmet!

Can they scrap Teresa May as well? Or at least make her get rid of that ridiculous dress that makes her look like an astronaut who lost her helmet!

Hear, hear! 

Can they scrap Teresa May as well? Or at least make her get rid of that ridiculous dress that makes her look like an astronaut who lost her helmet!

You mean that haircut isn't meant to imitate a helmet?

Barbs aside, I wonder what her play is and what policy changes will result. And none of the articles and blogs out there now have any predictions yet. But I can't imagine the lying to parliament last week bodes well for the future. ... I should really be working instead of getting caught up in the (imagined) schemings of Oxbridge politicos.

You mean that haircut isn't meant to imitate a helmet?

Barbs aside, I wonder what her play is and what policy changes will result. And none of the articles and blogs out there now have any predictions yet. But I can't imagine the lying to parliament last week bodes well for the future. ... I should really be working instead of getting caught up in the (imagined) schemings of Oxbridge politicos.

If I were being cynical I would be wondering if this announcement (and Cameron's fact free little spiel on Monday) may have been a way to try and offset in advance the Abu Qatada thing (they must have known that the case was going iffily at best if the reports of it were anything to go by).  At least now they might have failed, but are seen as doing something at least, whereas if they'd said or done nothing the week's main headline would have been, "government screws up again" on Abu Qatada just at the moment when they're running around like headless chickens trying to stave off UKIP.

If I were being cynical of course. 

 

If I were being cynical I would be wondering if this announcement (and Cameron's fact free little spiel on Monday) may have been a way to try and offset in advance the Abu Qatada thing (they must have known that the case was going iffily at best if the reports of it were anything to go by).  At least now they might have failed, but are seen as doing something at least, whereas if they'd said or done nothing the week's main headline would have been, "government screws up again" on Abu Qatada just at the moment when they're running around like headless chickens trying to stave off UKIP.

If I were being cynical of course. 

Oh but that's a very big "if"

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