The Home Office have been totally vindicated in their decision to drive around targeted areas of high ethnic minority population with mobile advertising billboards advising any illegal immigrant that they had better turn themselves in RIGHT NOW because they were being watched and they were arresting loads and loads of them IN THIS VERY AREA, every day.
It worked despite the huge outcry against the "racist vans" (and there was more than one van) and their subsequent withdrawal and their subsequent "Well we can't see anything wrong with it" stance taken ever since by the Daily Mail and The Governing Party - it worked because ONE MAN sent a text to The Home Office and took up their offer to be sent back to Pakistan.
Despite the fact that the vans were pulled from the road three months ago The Home Office have refused any request for information on their effectiveness but yesterday in Parliament immigration minister Mark Harper told MPs that he knew of the one man who had texted the service and so that was alright and it was an outstanding success for the estimated £10,000 cost of the four day campaign.
Its not been a very good week for the Go Home advertising geniuses at The Home Office either as "the racist vans" were also banned by the Advertising Standards Office as being "misleading and unsubstantiated" http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/10/08/go-home-van_n_4063643.html with their claim that "106 arrests last week in this area", a claim that is still unproven and frankly, complete lies.
Don't forget folks, its OK to lie about things as long you you believe it to be so.
The Home Office have been totally vindicated in their decision to drive around targeted areas of high ethnic minority population with mobile advertising billboards advising any illegal immigrant that they had better turn themselves in RIGHT NOW because they were being watched and they were arresting loads and loads of them IN THIS VERY AREA, every day.
It worked despite the huge outcry against the "racist vans" (and there was more than one van) and their subsequent withdrawal and their subsequent "Well we can't see anything wrong with it" stance taken ever since by the Daily Mail and The Governing Party - it worked because ONE MAN sent a text to The Home Office and took up their offer to be sent back to Pakistan.
Despite the fact that the vans were pulled from the road three months ago The Home Office have refused any request for information on their effectiveness but yesterday in Parliament immigration minister Mark Harper told MPs that he knew of the one man who had texted the service and so that was alright and it was an outstanding success for the estimated £10,000 cost of the four day campaign.
Its not been a very good week for the Go Home advertising geniuses at The Home Office either as "the racist vans" were also banned by the Advertising Standards Office as being "misleading and unsubstantiated" http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/10/08/go-home-van_n_4063643.html with their claim that "106 arrests last week in this area", a claim that is still unproven and frankly, complete lies.
Don't forget folks, its OK to lie about things as long you you believe it to be so.
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Post subject: Re: The "Go Home" vans - an outstanding success
Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 8:05 am
bramleyrhino
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JerryChicken wrote:it worked because ONE MAN sent a text to The Home Office and took up their offer to be sent back to Pakistan.
That'd be great if that was the intention, but (and I'm a betting man), I'd wager that the campaign was less about "sending the buggers back" and more about putting on some sort of "immigration clampdown theatre".
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Post subject: Re: The "Go Home" vans - an outstanding success
Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 8:19 am
JerryChicken
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bramleyrhino wrote:That'd be great if that was the intention, but (and I'm a betting man), I'd wager that the campaign was less about "sending the buggers back" and more about putting on some sort of "immigration clampdown theatre".
Oh surely not for that would mean spending £10,000 of taxpayers money on a politically motivated publicity campaign wouldn't it ?
It was surely just a complete coincidence that it all happened at the same time as UKIP were getting lots of positive publicity from xenophobic newspapers ?
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Post subject: Re: The "Go Home" vans - an outstanding success
Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 8:49 am
bramleyrhino
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JerryChicken wrote:Oh surely not for that would mean spending £10,000 of taxpayers money on a politically motivated publicity campaign wouldn't it ?
It was surely just a complete coincidence that it all happened at the same time as UKIP were getting lots of positive publicity from xenophobic newspapers ?
Now you're just being cynical
Quote:I wish everyone would read bramleyrhino's post two or three times just to get it through some thick skulls
Quote:Mr bramleyrhino speaks a lot of sense.
Jamie Jones-Buchanan wrote:"I'd never forgive myself if a child of mine was born in Lancashire.
Post subject: Re: The "Go Home" vans - an outstanding success
Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 9:28 am
Mintball
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Stand-Offish wrote::?
He's channeling Iain Duncan Smith who, when challenged over some figures re benefits that he invented, observed that he believed them – thus justifying his use of fabricated figures.
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Post subject: Re: The "Go Home" vans - an outstanding success
Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 9:35 am
Stand-Offish
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Mintball wrote:He's channeling Iain Duncan Smith who, when challenged over some figures re benefits that he invented, observed that he believed them – thus justifying his use of fabricated figures.
Aaah! .... in which case believe should have been 'believe'. Then I'd have known what it meant.
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Post subject: Re: The "Go Home" vans - an outstanding success
Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 12:00 pm
sally cinnamon
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After this World Cup I wonder if the RFL will consider hiring the Stobart lorries to put "OVERSEAS PLAYERS GO HOME" as its about time we start investing in our own youth talent and stopping bringing over these pension hunting imports which mean England will once again fall short to the Kangaroos.
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