Brexit: How many EU citizens have settled status in the UK?

Brexit: How many EU citizens have settled status in the UK?

Talking about numbers it is usually reported that the number of EU citizens living in the United Kingdom is about 3 million. 

The British Government has repeatedly said that EU citizens who have been living in the United Kingdom for a given number of years have nothing to fear about their right to continue living in the United Kingdom.

Having said that, there is another aspect of the story. Yes, they will have the right to remain in the United Kingdom if by the time the United Kingdom is no longer a member country of the European Union they have settled status and for this they would have to have obtained what is usually known as Permanent Residence or Permanent Leave to Remain in the United Kingdom. For those who have not applied for Settled Status it is foreseen that there will be a process for them to apply to continue living in the United Kingdom.

Some of those I have spoken with not only have Settled Status but they have also acquired British Citizenship but.... and this is a big but... how many don't have a British Passport nor settled status. On the Home Office website it is said that a new system - even an software application - will be in place for them to apply for settled status. However, on the same website it is said that 'should the application be successful' the individual concerned will be awarded either Settled or Pre-Settled Status.

Our concern is what will happen between the time when their right as EU Citizens to live in the United Kingdom comes to an end and the time when a final decision on their status is finally made. There are also two different deadlines. One deadline will be in effect if the United Kingdom and the EU reach an agreement and there is another deadline if the United Kingdom and the EU don't reach an agreement that shortens significantly the period of time for applications to be made and processed by the Home Office.

Other fundamental questions are how many EU citizens will need to apply to continue living in the United Kingdom and how long it will take to process the said applications. But there are various other questions that are equally important. What services will EU citizens have access to while they wait for their applications to be processed if the final decision is made long after their right to live in the United Kingdom comes to an end?

UK Citizenship Laws are stringent. For example, a child born in the United Kingdom is considered to be British if one of the parents is British or has Permanent Leave to Remain in the United Kingdom. What happens to children when both parents are not British nor have Permanent Leave to Remain in the United Kingdom? What nationality will those children have? 

Not every marriage is a success and many end up in divorce. When there are family disputes and courts have to decide about custody rights, what will happen if an application to continue living the United Kingdom is not successful? Will parents have to leave the United Kingdom leaving their children behind?

If there are legal arrangements stating that one parent has to provide financial support to his wife/her husband and children, what happens when the party providing financial support and/or the party receiving financial support is/are forced to leave the United Kingdom? 

Focusing on the financial and political advantages/disadvantages of leaving the European Union, far too many issues have not been properly addressed. We are afraid that far too many people are now knowingly or unknowingly living in limbo. We sincerely hope that this is not yet another Windrush scandal in the making.

 

  

  

Antonio Tajani: What next? Das Vierte Reich?

Antonio Tajani: What next? Das Vierte Reich?

For the President of the European Parliament to make territorial claims that affect various countries in the European Union is a deeply worrying development. 

Let us remembers that World War Started as a serious of territorial claims were made that led directly to the opening salvos of World War Two.

In 1938, meeting in München, Germany, Prime Minister Chamberlain and others started the process of disintegration that was the starting point. Germany claimed the Sudetenland then part of the new formed Czechoslovakia in what was known as the München Pakt. When Poland didn't agree to return to Germany the so called Polish Corridor - lands that were given to Poland after World War One that cut off Eastern Prussia from the rest of Germany - the escalation led to September 1st 1939.

After World War Two, Germany suffered massive territorial losses when most of Prussia was given to Poland. Now, the President of the European Parliament Antonia Tajani lays claim to two Italian provinces that were given to Slovenia and Croatia and talks about Italians that were murdered at the end of World War Two.

The danger for the European Union is not just the fact that Britain is leaving the European Union and that others might be on their way out of the European Union. If present members of the European Union lay territorial claims that affect the territorial integrity of other members of the European Union this creates a very dangerous precedent.

Not content with getting a big chuck of Germany, some Polish politicians are claiming additional reparations for the invasion of 1939 and following developments. If national borders are once again disputed, we must brace ourselves for the worst.

This coincides with rising instability in many European countries that happen to be members of the European Union. Statements like statements made by Antonio Tajani are bound to promote territorial claims that will set EU countries against each other. The President of the European Parliament has spoken against Nationalism and Populist movements in several occasions but his remarks do a lot to promote Nationalism and Populist movements.

Peter Rushton: Badly misinformed about the character of English Law

Peter Rushton: Badly misinformed about the character of English Law

Once again, Peter Rushton has been found wanting on the pages of Heritage and Destiny. Under the title "Chabloz succeeds in criminalizing Holocaust denial", Peter Rushton blatantly shows that he knows very little about English Law in this regard.

As a matter of fact, Holocaust denial is not a crime in English Law and therefore nothing of what happened last week at Southwark Crown Court changes such fundamental fact.

If Mr Rushton had bothered to show up during the three days of the deliberations at Southwark Crown Court he would have been able to produce a better report of what happened at Southwark Crown Court.

Mr Rushton then writes about the ill informed views of Richard Edmonds about the trial.

That’s because the earlier court judgment could not set a precedent: it applied only to Ms Chabloz’s particular case. Richard Edmonds warned in an article for the Heritage & Destiny website published on January 2nd – ‘Does Alison Chabloz know what she’s doing? Or criminalising “Holocaust”-revisionism by the back door’. Mr Edmonds’ warning has been fully vindicated this week.

He wrote:
“This is not the case with the findings of a Crown Court. It is not impossible that should in February Ms. Chabloz lose her appeal at Southwark Crown Court, then her case, involving as it does elements of the so-called ‘Holocaust’, could be used as a legal precedent to launch criminal prosecutions against Historical revisionists by the back-door, so to speak, in the absence of any formal laws in Britain banning ‘Holocaust’-denial.”

Once again, Richard Edmonds himself shows lack of acumen regarding the legal process and makes assumptions that are not based on fact. Richard Edmonds is writing about something he didn't witness and knows very little about.

Unfortunately, Peter Rushton - a man classed as a historian - couldn't stick to facts because neither him nor Richard Edmonds bothered to show up to really know what happened. 

It is fact that certain countries like France consider that Holocaust Denial is a crime. In the United Kingdom, Holocaust Denial is not a crime and a three day trial did not set up a precedent of any kind in this regard.

It is fact that millions of Jews were harassed, persecuted, tortured and killed in a variety of ways. No amount of revisionism can change that. Playing with numbers doesn't change the horrendous nature of what happened.

To say that the Holocaust didn't happen is to say that Adolf Hitler never existed, that Mein Kampf was never written, that the speeches made about getting rid of Jews were never made, that the Geheime Staatspolizei, the Schutzstaffel, the Waffen SS and even end units of the Wehrmacht proper were not committed to the expulsion, imprisonment and eradication of Jews.

This is John Tyndall, high ranking official of the National Front and later founder of the BNP of whom Richard Edmonds was a great admirer. Most probably one of the reasons why so called members of National Action show themselves with the same flag. White supremacists, Jew haters. 

We are talking about National Socialists that refuse to accept one of the core principles of National Socialism. The Holocaust did happen. We can discuss about numbers, about places and about methods used but no amount of discussion can erase what actually happened.

All the talk about who is and who isn't a revisionist coming from the authors of Heritage and Destiny is absolute crap generated by personal animosity and hatred.

   

   

Children Services: Extorting money from vulnerable parents

The extent of what is going on with regards to Social Services outsourcing services from private companies that charge parents to see their own children is still being determined. It is indecent and against basic Human Rights to charge parents to see their own children. 

The so called Contact Centres are no more than private businesses charging vulnerable people - very often on benefits or working part-time - that often don't have enough money to pay the £120 fee. If as a parent you don't have enough money to do a bank transfer to the said Contact Centres, the answer is "Sorry, this month you haven't paid and therefore you cannot see your child." 

We have written to Members of Parliament and until now we haven't got a reply. We are going to keep trying because vulnerable people deserve to be helped against what amounts to Slavery in the Twenty-First Century. A better system could not have been designed by the Mafia, but Mafia systems are being using by the State in Britain.

Alison Chabloz: On Inquisition, learning and Social Change

Alison Chabloz: On Inquisition, learning and Social Change

If we to continue talking about what is offensive, grossly offensive and extremely offensive, Humanity would be stuck in the Stone Age for every time there has been a leap into the future we have to deal with those who feel offended by evolution.

As a Catholic, I reject the Catholic Church as a political, often repressive and hierarchical institution that in many respects has been guilty of the worst atrocities in human history. The Earth is not the centre of the Universe despite the fact that Galileo Galilei was arrested and forced to explain himself in front of an Inquisition. 

We would be living with the unnecessary threat of deadly illnesses and still believing that bleeding a human being is the way to get rid of the said illnesses if people had not gone out of the way and risked their lives to dissect human corpses to get to know about the human body and the bodily functions of the human body. 

We cannot know the full truth about conflicts happening in our time but there are those who issue laws and promote fear to prevent people from inquiring and researching to get a better picture of what really happened and what is really happening. For many years, the German Wehrmacht was blamed for the execution of Polish officers. It was easy to blame Germany for it because after all Germany had been defeated in war and the Soviet Union was the winning partner although the partnership soon came to an end with the beginning of the Cold War. The Polish soldiers had actually being executed by Soviet Soldiers following Stalin's orders, the same Stalin that decimated by the Soviet Army by executing practically all high ranking officers of the Soviet Army to the point that the Soviets faced catastrophic defeats both when fighting Finland and Japan.

There isn't one version of history. In fact, there is one version of every conflict for every individual involved or affected by it and not even the most capable historian would be physically capable of understanding and knowing the full extent of a single conflict, let alone the complexity of  what we know as World War Two. The number of those who perished is absolutely irrelevant and in any case nobody can honestly say that he or she knows exactly how many died, how the died and in some cases not even where they died because they just vanished in the widespread mess of war.

To accuse Alison Chabloz of being a Holocaust Denier is an insult. She doesn't deny that Jews and others were persecuted. She expressly stated in court and outside the courtroom that she never denied that persecution and killings happened. She questions the means and the numbers and there is a living human being who could state without a shadow of a doubt that he or she knows how, where and how many people lost their lives but, once again, Intolerance and Stupidity get on the way - sometimes in a very threatening and forceful manner on the way of those who want to get a better picture of what really happened.

If as Humanity we are stuck with myths and half-truths, we are going to be deprived of a fundamental freedom that it is the freedom to find the truth and the freedom to evolve. Socrates didn't go to his death for nothing. He chose to drank poison and die because he was dying for a fundamental principle. Socrates stated: Say something and I will prove that you are wrong. Say the opposite and I will prove that you are wrong. But some of those who say that they admire Socrates are the first ones to pass laws to prevent individuals from questioning official versions of events. Another great philosopher - Descartes - said "I think, therefore I exist". We exist because of the capacity to think and our thinking must not be dictated by intolerant idiots that want to force us to accept myths and mythology.

Russian Internet

Russia's State Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, adopted in the first reading on Tuesday a bill aimed to ensure security and availability of Russian Internet (Runet) in the event of potential isolation from the global network.

This means that data from its own organisations and users would stay within Russia, rather than be distributed globally.

The bill's text warns of the "violent nature of the U.S. National Cybersecurity Strategy adopted in September 2018," which accuses Russia of alleged hacking attacks "without evidence," said the law's sponsors.

Russia has regularly been accused of cyber attacks on other nations and organisations.

The draft law, called the Digital Economy National Programme, makes sure its internet provision can continue to function in the event of external powers attempting to disable the country's service.

The law's authors say that Russia will unplug itself in case of a major cyber threat.

Russia will be required to create its own version of the internet's address system or Domain Name System (DNS), so it can continue to operate if connections to international servers are interrupted.

Twelve organisations are involved in overseeing the root servers for DNS with none of them based in Russia.

The eventual plan is for all Russian internet traffic to pass through these new routing arrangements.

The project has received support from Russia's president Vladimir Putin.

Jayda Fransen: How to be in Northern Ireland without being in Northern Ireland?

Jayda Fransen: How to be in Northern Ireland without being in Northern Ireland?

The incompatibilities of two legal systems: England's legal system and Northern Ireland's legal system are being used for political harassment and anti-terror legislation is being used for purposes that have nothing to do with tackling terrorism.

Northern Ireland is de-facto a country outside the United Kingdom, no matter what British politicians want you to believe and this is all too real when dealing with legal issues.

When it comes to bail conditions in England and in Northern Ireland, the English legal system struggles to find solutions that are not part of present legislation and judges have to be "creative' (creative is one way of putting it) to fill up the gaps created by legal incompatibilities.

Jayda Fransen's real residence is a property in Northern Ireland but English authorities forced her to reside in England having to pay for accommodation in England that she could ill afford. She was given the choice to live in a hostel surrounded by real criminals including drug-addicts, rapists, paedophiles and the like. Although part of the bill for housing is paid by the state, people placed on bail and forced to live at a certain address that is not their home address are forced to pay part of the bill even when they have their own homes somewhere else in the United Kingdom.

Given the fact that the reasons to imprison her and to later impose draconian bail conditions were utterly political, she was treated like somebody involved in Islamic Terrorism. Due to her very high political profile, she asked SO15 to ensure that the places where she was going to be forced to reside in were safe but SO15 officers failed in their duty of care and told her that 'if she was attacked, she would be transferred to some location in Liverpool'. Translation: wait until somebody attacks you for us to protect you.

A female Probation Officer when asked a direct yes/no question about very serious issues could only come up with a reply saying 'I believe that...'. "I believe that'? An Officer of the Law is not supposed to believe. An Officer of the Law must be able to answer Yes or No. Either security measures were implemented or security measures were not implemented.

We can hardly blame a Probation Officer of not being able to answer a direct question after listening to Members of Parliament including Members of the British Government talking about liability and evidence. They could only produce words like perhaps, maybe, possibly, most probably when dealing with an extremely serious accusation against another country.

It should be mandatory for Members of Parliament to witness trials to see how Legislation is actually being implemented and to see what is going wrong. The judges were struggling to pass sentence but in the end it is not the judges' fault to be put in such idiotic situation because of defective legislation passed by incompetent Parliamentarians who very seldom have to face real everyday cases in the courts.

Are British Courts of Law and Police Services being used for political persecution? Yes, they are. Anti-Terror legislation is being used in cases that have nothing to do with Terrorism. Police Officers are being ordered to detain and arrest individuals using Anti-Terror legislation in cases that have nothing to do with Terrorism.

The so called Prevent initiative has done more damage than good. If anything, it has created widespread animosity because of blatant abuses. Abuses will not promote trust. Abuses will promote Extremism. We have seen Police Officers asking families to denounce their own relatives and friends and asking teachers to denounce their own pupils including those of a very young age. These are not just nonsensical attitudes. They are dangerous attitudes. What kind of society are they trying to create?