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30 Jul 2008

Annoying consultation vibration: common travel area

It seems the Home Office wants to abolish the Comon Travel Area in the British isles, and is doing a sort of pickled figleaf of a consultation in preparation. It’s a sort of

1.  Do you agree that new powers to enable border controls on all air and sea routes from the republic of ireland to the UK for non-cta nationals should be introduced? 

Yes/Don’t know/No

If you say “No” you are given a lot of space to explain yourself, because that’s what they plan to do. And ditto with the question

Do you agree that identity controls should be introduced on all air and sea routes from the republic of ireland to the UK for CTA nationals?

It feels to me that there has to be a damn good reason for introducing all the extra hassle and expense. Where can we now travel without being hassled by control phreaks?

They clearly desperately want to get rid of the CTA. But why? Where is the evidence that there’s any need for it? Is it IRA revisited? Scary route for import of illegal substances and weaponry? Are we being infiltrated by paedophile Irish priests?

Thre’s lots of tough stuff about new checks and ID cards and biggest shakeups for God knows how many years. But nothing about why there is any need for vile new controls.

Liam Byrne used to be such a nice chap when he was unemployed/struggling with a dotcom startup. He was my mate. What is it about working in the Home Office that makes his output now seem so toxic? I just don’t feel I’m honestly presented with the difficult problems we all need to solve together. I feel I’m being fobbed off with fibbing, conniving, disrespectful nonsense. Isn’t that awful? Well, it is far from ideal.

Wibbi: the Home Office treated us with respect and consideration, and consulted with us as if we were intelligent human beings?

Wibbi: we could go online and click a button somewhere to turn off all their pensions if we were dissatisfied with how we were being treated?

• Posted by William Heath on 30/07/08 at 8:56pm
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