The BBC have been to the fore in pushing the Labour meme about the alleged “incompetency” of Theresa May’s running of the Passport agency. Now regardless of one thinks of THAT, isn’t it interesting that the BBC seem unable to deal with this partial explanation of the massive back up….
‘A surge in applications from migrants is fuelling the Passport Office crisis, it emerged last night. A record 207,989 foreigners were handed citizenship last year – a huge rise on the 82,000 seen in the year 2000. Their requests for papers are contributing to the delays at the Passport Office, which is struggling to clear a backlog of 500,000 applications.”
Perhaps the BBC could investigate what is driving this surge in Immigration applications? If staff are overwhelmed then we should all understand why.
I knew I could remember a similar situation under Liebour – 30 second’s Googling raised the 1999 situation – 650,000 passports delayed :
http://www.nao.org.uk/report/united-kingdom-passport-agency-the-passport-delays-of-summer-1999/
Anybody remember the Biased BBC going on about the incompetence of Jack Straw?? Thought not!
And then there’s the flip side of that: a record amount of immigration but our watchdog state media doesn’t say a word about it until there’s a chance to bash the Tories. If the passport system was working fine would they ever have told us that our allegedly conservative government was throwing out passports like they were on fire?
Both the above comments fail to say what is really happening but which DV alludes to in the opening post: this is a complete non-issue, nothing yet it is raised to untold importance because labour – and hence the the BBC – push it: trying to keep any anti May or Gove issue in the headlines. There is no story yet you can bet they are trawling everywhere for the next one: “Home Office loses 1 million paper clips a year: Labour call on the governemnt to explain/apologise” or something
Sorry, don’t misunderstand my first sentence, which is badly written: both the first two comments make very valid points! 🙂
Yes, more deliberate BBC-NUJ censorship on how the continuing mass immigration and colonisation of Britain is even putting Passport Office under strain.
U.K political class can’t impose mass immigration take-over of U.K quickly enough; the demographics here point to an inevitable future, with the erstwhile white, indigenous English people becoming a minority in what was once their country.
When does a “migrant” become an “immigrant”? Surely when they get a bloody passport!