('Trust' - in the UK? Ha!)
Latest hare-brained idea on improving the Britishness of Britain is that applicants for citizenship pay a higher fee for those needing more public services (ie the elderly and children) - this must be the only place anywhere where these groups have to pay more. Should people's children then wait with their applications until they are, say, 18? Cock-eyed idea, no? This money then goes into The British Trust Fund which will support local authorities who have many immigrants (though funding formulas, certainly for the benefits agency (may she rest in peace) did include this, but it's a bit of a bummer when those formulas are based on censuses (last one in 2001) and the heavy influx started in 2004).
Also the intention is that people who contribute to society through voluntary and community activities get in faster than those committing serious crimes. I would have thought that people committing serious crimes would be deported, and, like, have no chance? Community and voluntary work is of course fine for people in low-paid jobs who have to work all the hours God sends to just make ends meet, quite apart from looking after their children. Maybe they just want the rich people, some of whom might have the leisure to do this?
Wasn't so easy in my day, either, 25 years ago. Cost 150 GBP, took two years, got police interviews of my friends, employer and educational establishments. And I was a Christian white kind of person....
Latest hare-brained idea on improving the Britishness of Britain is that applicants for citizenship pay a higher fee for those needing more public services (ie the elderly and children) - this must be the only place anywhere where these groups have to pay more. Should people's children then wait with their applications until they are, say, 18? Cock-eyed idea, no? This money then goes into The British Trust Fund which will support local authorities who have many immigrants (though funding formulas, certainly for the benefits agency (may she rest in peace) did include this, but it's a bit of a bummer when those formulas are based on censuses (last one in 2001) and the heavy influx started in 2004).
Also the intention is that people who contribute to society through voluntary and community activities get in faster than those committing serious crimes. I would have thought that people committing serious crimes would be deported, and, like, have no chance? Community and voluntary work is of course fine for people in low-paid jobs who have to work all the hours God sends to just make ends meet, quite apart from looking after their children. Maybe they just want the rich people, some of whom might have the leisure to do this?
Wasn't so easy in my day, either, 25 years ago. Cost 150 GBP, took two years, got police interviews of my friends, employer and educational establishments. And I was a Christian white kind of person....
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