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Would anything ever like this happen in UK.

I think not. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55674146

Alina Dansord ● 2111d7 Comments

So do I - pretty much because the Tories are an arrogant, self entitled bunch of sh*ts. Maybe the Dutch govt. are facing a vote of No Confidence next week, but that wouldn't deter the likes of Moggie, Patel, Johnson and Hancock. We know how many people here have fallen foul of the appalling rules imposed by the DWP and had their benefits stopped or cut, only to be re-instated on appeal. I give you the current debacle over food parcels, they learn nothing and couldn't careless until they are shown up for what they are.

Vanessa Smith ● 2111d

"I give you the current debacle over food parcels, they learn nothing and couldn't careless until they are shown up for what they are.Yep, the opposition leader Marcus Rashford did a good job again😀

Julian Pavey ● 2111d

This scandal, in one of our former EU partners started in 2012.The fact that we're only hearing about it now, simply illustrates the way in which news from Europe, formerlyour supposed partners, is largely ignored in mainstreamnews in the UK. When you stop to consider the numberof major Europeans news stories which feature on UK news media, Europe may as well not exist most of the time. Certainly not as compared with news from the US, which for the BBC at least would seem to constitute the majority of "international news"This is one reason why, to me at least, the Brexit vote came as no rel surprise.michael adams...

Michael Adams ● 2111d

NL was due a general election in March anyway, so it's only moving things forward a few weeks.As for 'resignation', that word has been expunged from the Tories' political lexicon.

Ken Munn ● 2111d

Let’s hope not, the way they behaved was disgraceful “ Over the last decade, some 20,000 parents had been incorrectly labelled as fraudsters by the tax office — sometimes for the most minor mistakes in child benefit forms — and chased for every cent ever claimed. With ‘debts’ in the tens of thousands of euros, some lost their homes, marriages, jobs, and even children.”

Russell Pearson ● 2111d

The Windrush scandal was a 2018 British political scandal concerning people who were wrongly detained, denied legal rights, threatened with deportation and in at least 83 cases wrongly deported from the UK by the Home Office.

Andrew Jones ● 2111d

Yes it is shameful.  https://www.amnesty.org.uk/blogs/yes-minister-it-human-rights-issue/seventy-years-after-windrush

Philippa Bond ● 2111d