{"id":87634,"date":"2025-11-17T14:22:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=87634"},"modified":"2025-11-17T14:22:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:22:48","slug":"how-far-can-these-callous-idiots-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/11\/17\/how-far-can-these-callous-idiots-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"How far can these callous idiots fall?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/nov\/17\/refugees-jewellery-asylum-home-office?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian noted<\/a> this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Asylum seekers could have jewellery or other valuables taken to pay for the costs of processing their cases, a Home Office minister has said, in another detail of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/16\/shabana-mahmood-warns-labour-mps-dark-forces-are-stirring-up-anger-over-migration\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">changes to migration policy<\/a> likely to cause concern among Labour MPs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Speaking to broadcasters before the formal announcement of sweeping changes to asylum policy on Monday, the Home Office minister Alex Norris said while this would not involve seizing wedding rings, jewellery without sentimental value could be taken.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a description for this behaviour from Labour: it is performative cruelty.<\/p>\n<p>The media are lapping this up.<\/p>\n<p>Most reasonable people are loathing them for it.<\/p>\n<p>I can't help but wonder how long some can stay in the Party's ranks.<\/p>\n<p>And, in the meantime, we have to conclude that Starmer and Mahmmo0d are the best assets Farage has.<\/p>\n<p>How far can these callous idiots fall? That is the question that has to be asked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Guardian noted this morning: Asylum seekers could have jewellery or other valuables taken to pay for the costs of processing their cases, a<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/11\/17\/how-far-can-these-callous-idiots-fall\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-labour","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87644,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87634\/revisions\/87644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}