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(not satire – it’s the Tories!)
Here’s what Mark Harper – the Tory immigration minister who has just resigned for employing an illegal immigrant as a cleaner – said in parliament just last November about ‘unscrupulous’ employers who employ illegal immigrants:
“There is some agreement about the need to crack down on unscrupulous employers. One is their exploitation of individuals in the United Kingdom; another is that by treating individuals in the way they do they undercut legitimate employers who obey the law and follow the rules. That is wrong. Unscrupulous employers also help to facilitate one type of illegal migration, in which individuals are, frankly, duped into coming to the United Kingdom with the promise of a better life only to end up working in unsatisfactory conditions and not receiving a good income, and so would have been better off if they had never made the journey here. That type of path, which sometimes also involves organised crime, is something that we all want to crack down on.
Enforcement is welcome. It will make it more difficult for unscrupulous employers to employ people illegally and improve the position of those who choose to follow our laws and not exploit people, because they will not face unfair competition.”
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Now we know how Harper knew so much about unscrupulous employers. He was talking about himself.
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Perhaps we should have looked at those illegal immigrant ‘go home’ vans – so beloved of Mark Harper – more closely:
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Picking over his previous utterances to find something that would be embarrassing to him is a bit of a cheap trick.
Having said that, Mark Harper is an unprincipled twat who deserves everything he gets, so as you were.
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Reblogged this on UNEMPLOYED IN TYNE & WEAR and commented:
Hello Mr Pot…have you met Mr Kettle ?
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Well, I say he should face some of this “Enforcement” he was talking about.
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Mark Harper obviously isn’t an unscrupulous employer as anyone reading the BBC website on the topic will see. However, he is an incompetent one who especially as an MP should have been 100% certain that his cleaner was working legally.
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
An example of Tory double-standards that bears out the old saying ‘The Tory Party is an organised hypocrisy’.
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Reblogged this on kickingthecat.
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Reblogged this on nearlydead.
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the civil service tom is not good across the board what Mark Harper failed to realise is that in like the way the DWP treat benefit claimants is that you cant rely on what your told and just because he was told his worker that he employed was OK she was not
he should have realised by the nationality of the person concerned in the first place that it looked very odd so he lacked judgement at best and was right to resign
those that allowed the person to stay should also be sacked for gross negligence
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He should be sacked for not doing his own cleaning in the first place – shame on him!
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you have a good point there guy 🙂
if it were me I’d be doing it myself but these Oxford chaps don’t forget have never seen their parents clean or in most cases have never seen their parents work hard at all and it that which is the main problem
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Mark Harper went to a state school and doesn’t come from a privileged background.
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Reblogged this on glynismillward189.
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I disagree. I would prefer that ministers spend their time doing the job properly, rather than doing their own cleaning. But spending a week doing the job of a cleaner (or any normal job) would be a shocking wake-up call for most of the politicians of any party.
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…and how long will it be before he gets given another ministerial job? It won’t take long for the press and the public to forget.
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Perhaps the state could pay single parents enough so that they can employ a cleaner, leaving them free to do the jobs they have been forced into properly and free some quality time up for them to spend with their children.
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Interesting idea! If the cleaner employed by the single parent is a single parent too, then they could simply employ each other and they would both have much more free time!
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Here’s one for Clive- Harper was educated at the Headlands Comprehensive School and Swindon College. He then studied philosophy, politics and economics at Brasenose College, Oxford, where like David Cameron he studied under Professor Vernon Bogdanor.[4]
On graduation in 1991 he joined KPMG as an auditor. After qualifying as a chartered accountant, in 1995 he joined Intel Corporation as a senior financial analyst, becoming the finance manager in 1997, and operations manager from 2000 (wiki)
Mark Harper threw himself in the back of a police van to avoid debating the sale of the Forest of Dean with his constituents – video on youtube
Mark Harper advised people in his constituency who DO NOT have computers to keep up to date by looking on his website – video on youtube
Mark Harper always has his expense claims in the middle of those MPs claiming – not too much, not too little – hidden in the mass of abusers
Mark harper this lead MP on the racist vans around London telling immigrants to go home
We all know about KPMG’s role in the ‘delivery of services’ by private firms and ATOS don’t we…?
There may well be more to this than meets the eye
Quiet but nasty Mr Harper MP
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I HAVE been unemployed for 14 years and I WOULD love to work in Mark Harper’ toilet
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Well he did come from an ordinary background but was able to go Oxford despite that and then had a successful career in finance which appears to be a crime to some people. Surely upwards social mobility is a good thing. He may have initiated some misguided wrong hesded policies but that doesn’t make him a nasty person or perhaps all non left wing people are by definition nasty.
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Maybe he was a very good accountant and finance manager, but he was cr@p as a minister. His attitude to immigration policies seems to have been uncaring as well as ineffectual, and that probably also equates to nasty.
Most people on this site (and elsewhere) tend to think that everybody on the other side of the political fence from them is nasty. I prefer to look case by case, and you know what?… almost all senior politicians, irrespective of party, DO seem to be selfish, power hungry, uncaring and nasty.
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Harper only made the comments a couple of months ago. He wants every to know he means business. Just what do you stand for – hypocrisy?
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I see we’ve got the ‘inteligensia’ in tonight!
harper votes 100% with the government – never voted against – most of the time the opposite of what his constituents want – who does he represent – not them?????????
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OOps
he used expenses to pay the ‘illegal’ cleaner – send him down yer ‘oner
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/10627741/Former-immigration-minister-Mark-Harper-used-expenses-to-pay-illegal-cleaner.html
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Boz – The vast majority of MPs vote exactly how their party whips tell them to. This begs the question… why have individual MPs at all? You would get exactly the same result by just voting for a national party, and forget about constituency representation. We would also save paying for all these mindless drone MP’s salaries and expenses!
We all have a responsibility to hold our MPs to account about WHY they vote a certain way (preferably before they cast their vote). You can then judge them by their answers. I have done so many times, and my MP has proved herself to simply be an idiot Labour ‘yes’ woman with no rational opinions or arguments of her own. All she is capable of doing is blindly repeating the party line.
Have you ever emailed your MP about an important issue? If not, try it and see what happens…
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So why do you belong to a political party, why not just vote for an independent? The whole of parliament could be made up of independent mp’s answerable only to their constituents.
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Was he paying her more than the cleaners in the UK get, because we will have to get the unions involved to secure a pay increase for cleaners across the board?
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Ms Guy ‘Assumption City’ Fawkes – I don’t belong to any political party.
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The amount he was paying is stated in the article and in his expenses. Try reading and thinking before talking cr@p.
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Was I asking you? I was asking the question to Boz because I do not know what the going rate is for cleaners these days, so do not know if it was higher or lower, does that answer satisfy you or would you like me to google it to make you happy.
Sometimes we like to engage with other like minded commentors.
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If you want to know the ‘going rate’ for cleaners then that’s very easy to find out too. Try reading and thinking before talking cr@p.
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If I want to ask Boz a question silly or not that is up to me, I have answered enough stupid questions from you out of courtesy, until I tired of your constant badgering.
One question to a fellow commentor such as Boz, not you, should not incur your mocking, dictatorial reply. Talk about being over the top!
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This is a public forum, so I will point out when somebody like you is talking cr@p if I feel like it. If you don’t like being mocked, then try reading and thinking before talking cr@p!
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‘Get’ and ‘Stuffed’ comes to mind when replying to your pompous comments.
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If we are talking of whose comments would win hands down on a crap-o-meter I think yours would win hands down.
Like I said on a previous post “If the CRAP fits then YOU should wear it?” 🙂
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