And one of the most outspoken critics of the original policy.
I don't especially like Sajid Javid's worship of Ayn Rand, but it's hard not to admire someone who can get to be Home Secretary from such background during a period when it appears the UK has been quite as racist as anywhere else in the world. (We don't actually see ourselves as racist, obvs; and probably don't like it when it is pointed out to us because it goes against our opinion of ourselves, if that's not too solipsistic a point.)
It's a canny move from Madame May. If she had only a chap/chapess with Caribbean heritage who was qualified it might have been an even better move. I guess Kwasi Kwateng was too African, too much a Brexiteer, and obviously too Etonian for the job; but that's the level of cynicism which I habitually employ when looking at any of these sort of appointments from either party. Javid was a good choice, inasmuch as he had a state education, his dad was a bus driver, he is from immigrant stock, and he is obviously an embodiment of the Whiggish ideal of the self-made person. I admire that, despite being a very old form of High Tory who dislikes many of the Whiggish notions at present being recycled. (Mind you Ayn Rand is worse by far.) I dislike the guy's politics, but well done to the man. He now has to sort the problem out, and try to persuade Mrs May not to click her heels together when she stops walking.
I had always thought that the "Windrush Policy" was foisted upon May by the requirements of balancing the looney end of the Tory right, and to stop them frothing at the mouth and frightening the horses. I wonder though if her time in the Home Office has changed her. It is so easy to go native when you're being advised by folk in the department you supposedly run.
I think it's time for a root-and-branch review of the Home Office, it's culture, and it's competence.
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Date: 30/4/18 22:16 (UTC)I don't especially like Sajid Javid's worship of Ayn Rand, but it's hard not to admire someone who can get to be Home Secretary from such background during a period when it appears the UK has been quite as racist as anywhere else in the world. (We don't actually see ourselves as racist, obvs; and probably don't like it when it is pointed out to us because it goes against our opinion of ourselves, if that's not too solipsistic a point.)
It's a canny move from Madame May. If she had only a chap/chapess with Caribbean heritage who was qualified it might have been an even better move. I guess Kwasi Kwateng was too African, too much a Brexiteer, and obviously too Etonian for the job; but that's the level of cynicism which I habitually employ when looking at any of these sort of appointments from either party. Javid was a good choice, inasmuch as he had a state education, his dad was a bus driver, he is from immigrant stock, and he is obviously an embodiment of the Whiggish ideal of the self-made person. I admire that, despite being a very old form of High Tory who dislikes many of the Whiggish notions at present being recycled. (Mind you Ayn Rand is worse by far.) I dislike the guy's politics, but well done to the man. He now has to sort the problem out, and try to persuade Mrs May not to click her heels together when she stops walking.
I had always thought that the "Windrush Policy" was foisted upon May by the requirements of balancing the looney end of the Tory right, and to stop them frothing at the mouth and frightening the horses. I wonder though if her time in the Home Office has changed her. It is so easy to go native when you're being advised by folk in the department you supposedly run.
I think it's time for a root-and-branch review of the Home Office, it's culture, and it's competence.