Now Sajid Javid suffers racist abuse from Corbyn supporters.

I'm sure the complaints the women are making in that blog are real. The trouble is we don't have any corroboration. We don't know what the back stories are and so on.

One thing that did come across in my reading of the blog entries is that some of the speakers (the blog is written by people not in detention who write it from what they are told in phone conversations with detainees) seem to think that because they have been in the UK for years then they have a right to stay based simply on that even if their initial entry was illegal. I think that is the crux of the problem; one of them anyway.

Trying to imagine myself in that position, I cannot come up with any feeling of 'right' to stay in a country where I do not have citizenship. Want, yes; right, no.

I think it is highly likely that asylum processes need to be more streamlined at the same time as wondering how. I can imagine it being quite hard to obtain information from the countries from which people hale about why they have left (the back stories referred to above) and so on.

lemongrove this was a woman brought here as a child, raised here and then arrested, held at Yarl's Wood and told she would be deported to the Congo a country she hadn't seen since childhood. I'm not sure what her legal position was, but she certainly had no choice about her entry to this country legal, or illegal, as a child. The Windrush generation are not the only people who suffer from our immigration laws and the existence of places like Yarl's Wood.
There is a valid case I think for acepting children who were brought here, and have lived here, for many years as legal residents.

It's the Daily Mail!!!!!!! Of course they have such articles!!! The Brothers Grimm told better tales!
If anyone airs racist remarks of any sort, they are hardly real Corbyn supporters! They may hide under a guise of being 'Labour', but as Corbyn is clearly anti-inequality the how can they be true supporters? It's oxymoronic!!

On the frothing at the mouth. Love the OTT distress when the DM is mentioned. OFT

If it helps GrannyCarrots you'll find Sanid Javid's remarks about the hostile environment of the Labour party recorded in Hansard and the fact that he was called vile racist names by Corbyn supporters. It's true ( sadly) whether you like it or not. I see you're more riled about the newspaper rather than the Labour supporters' racism.

Tablet typing...grrr. 'Oh'...and 'Sajid'.

I thought it was 'safe' to mention the DM now

Grannycarrots
Who was it that didn't give up on the securing a jail sentence for the pond life that murdered Stephen Lawrence: the DM.

What surprises me is Corbyn has more support than any leader in Europe yet the DM is the highest selling newspaper

I don't think the DM will ever be considered ok by lefty Guardian readers Petra. Mind you, that is the liberal, anything goes, right-on, anti British paper favoured by the awful Owen Jones and those a who sneer at the DM. It's the left wing sibling of the DM in truth. .

Owen Jones considers himself a fourth generation socialist, his parents met as members of the Trotskyist Militant Tendency. And his grandfather was involved with the communist party , At one time Jones was parlimentry researcher for McDonald

Lord Adonis has had to apologise for posting a "cartoon" about Mr. Javid. It basically shows a cartoon of Mr Javid sitting at his desk saying, "I just want to settle in, get organised and then deport my parents". Whilst this may not be considered too bad, following on from the abuse he was subjected to on his appointment it does show very poor taste and lack of judgement on the part of Lord Adonis.

Lord Adonis?!!!! A so called educated man? I'm just astonished that he could give more than a cursory glance at such a cartoon, never mind post it! lost for words!

No wonder the H of L needs reforming!!

Adonis might have posted the cartoon primarily as a dig at Home Office policy of deporting immigrants, but unfortunately there was clearly a racist element to the cartoon too.
I agree it was in very bad taste.

I agree with Oldwoman poor taste and lack of judgement. I don't care what party he is from racism is racism and needs to be condemned by everyone. Why was it necessary to refer to Sajid Javid's parents, particularly as his father is dead and his parents appear to have instilled a strong work ethic in all their children.