Don’t Call Them illegal Immigrants, Sadiq Khan Tells Civil Servants
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article in The Times.
These three paragraphs outline Khan’s new instructions to civil servants.
Sadiq Khan has told civil servants not to use the term “illegal migrants” but instead use “undocumented” migrants or those “with insecure immigration status”, according to internal guidance.
Produced for City Hall workers, the leaked inclusivity guide tells employees that instead of using “men and women’” they should say “people” or “Londoners”. It also advises the estimated 1,300 people who work for the Greater London Authority that the terms “male” and “female” are “dated and medicalised”.
“Similarly, instead of ‘ladies and gentlemen’ say something that doesn’t exclude non-binary people,” it reads.
In the 1970s, I can remember C and myself listening to a magnificent play on BBC Radio 4, by Václav Havel called The Memorandum.
The Wikipedia entry says this about the play.
The play is a black comedy that parodies bureaucracy and conformity. Havel wrote it prior to the Prague Spring of 1968 as an ironic satire dissenting against communist rule. Despite its veiled themes, the play was approved by government censors and published. The Memorandum centers on the introduction of a new language, “Ptydepe”, that is meant to make work more efficient despite having the opposite effect. Sam Walters considers The Memorandum to be Havel’s masterpiece.
Khan has obviously seen the play and feels he should sharpen up his act.
The Anonymous Widower 
Put a mask on a pig and it’s still a pig. Call an illegal immigrant by a woke name and you still have an illegal immigrant. This is just more left-wing rubbish muddying the waters.
Comment by MauriceGReed | June 15, 2023 |
This sort of action, shows he’s not very bright politically.
A policy like this gives lots of ammunition to those, who he’ll be fighting at the polls.
It’s the same with extending the ULEZ zone. His air quality argument has more holes than a colander.
And where’s his hydrogen plan?
Comment by AnonW | June 15, 2023 |
There’s no such thing as an illegal migrant, Maurice.
Comment by Jim | June 20, 2023 |
So Jim, I take it you support Marxist policies? Let at least a million in even though there is a shortage of housing, the NHS is overloaded, insufficient places in schools, insufficient job vacancies etc etc.
Someone landing on our shores unannounced with no prior visa/work permit and with the intention of staying is an ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT. Use all the woke descriptions you can come up with but they are still illegals.
Comment by MauriceGReed | June 20, 2023