Patrick Harvie Campaigns for the Abolishment of the Home Office, Glasgow, 22 November 2019 23 images Created 23 Nov 2019
Glasgow, UK. 22 November 2019.
Patrick Harvie MSP - Co Leader of the Scottish Green Party campaigns with local candidates, councillors and party members for the abolition of the home office.
Credit: Colin D Fisher/CDFIMAGES.COM
Scottish Greens call for abolition of Home Office
The Home Office is utterly unfit for purpose and should be abolished, according to Scottish Greens Co-Leader Patrick Harvie MSP.
Mr Harvie will join General Election candidates, local councillors and party members outside the Home Office building in Glasgow this afternoon where he’ll lead calls to abolish the home office.
He will say that the Home Office is institutionally racist, highlighting inhumane and cruel policies toward migrants and asylum seekers. He will also highlight its draconian policy on drug use, which has perpetuated the drugs death crisis.
Scottish Greens would:
*Provide the right to housing and healthcare for refugees.
*Allow asylum seekers to work while their cases are being processed.
*Ensure asylum seekers are eligible for legal aid.
*Institute a welcoming immigration policy recognising the benefit immigrants bring to our communities.
*Decriminalise drug law and ensure that drug dependency is treated as a public health matter
Patrick Harvie MSP said:
“The Home Office is utterly unfit for purpose and should be abolished at once.
“The hostile environment policy has led to the Windrush scandal, and the settled status scheme threatens to create another catastrophe, this time on a larger scale, for EU citizens.
“We know that the Home Office detains families at detention centres throughout the UK, including at Dungavel.
“In Glasgow 150 asylum seekers face being thrown out onto the street, due to the Home Office’s relationship with the discredited outsourcing giant Serco.
“These actions are reprehensible and are indicative of an institutionally racist department.
“Scotland is in the grip of a drug deaths crisis. There were a record 1,187 drug deaths in 2018, and there are no signs that the figure will be any lower this year. All the while the Home Office has its fingers in its ears, refusing to decriminalise, refusing to devolve the legislation and persistently blocking the public health measures which Glasgow and Scotland have asked for.
“Scottish Greens believe that dignity, compassion and respect must be at the heart of our institutions. It doesn’t seem to matter what Minister is in charge. The inhumanity, the cruelness and the distortion of evidence carries on regardless.”
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Patrick Harvie MSP - Co Leader of the Scottish Green Party campaigns with local candidates, councillors and party members for the abolition of the home office.
Credit: Colin D Fisher/CDFIMAGES.COM
Scottish Greens call for abolition of Home Office
The Home Office is utterly unfit for purpose and should be abolished, according to Scottish Greens Co-Leader Patrick Harvie MSP.
Mr Harvie will join General Election candidates, local councillors and party members outside the Home Office building in Glasgow this afternoon where he’ll lead calls to abolish the home office.
He will say that the Home Office is institutionally racist, highlighting inhumane and cruel policies toward migrants and asylum seekers. He will also highlight its draconian policy on drug use, which has perpetuated the drugs death crisis.
Scottish Greens would:
*Provide the right to housing and healthcare for refugees.
*Allow asylum seekers to work while their cases are being processed.
*Ensure asylum seekers are eligible for legal aid.
*Institute a welcoming immigration policy recognising the benefit immigrants bring to our communities.
*Decriminalise drug law and ensure that drug dependency is treated as a public health matter
Patrick Harvie MSP said:
“The Home Office is utterly unfit for purpose and should be abolished at once.
“The hostile environment policy has led to the Windrush scandal, and the settled status scheme threatens to create another catastrophe, this time on a larger scale, for EU citizens.
“We know that the Home Office detains families at detention centres throughout the UK, including at Dungavel.
“In Glasgow 150 asylum seekers face being thrown out onto the street, due to the Home Office’s relationship with the discredited outsourcing giant Serco.
“These actions are reprehensible and are indicative of an institutionally racist department.
“Scotland is in the grip of a drug deaths crisis. There were a record 1,187 drug deaths in 2018, and there are no signs that the figure will be any lower this year. All the while the Home Office has its fingers in its ears, refusing to decriminalise, refusing to devolve the legislation and persistently blocking the public health measures which Glasgow and Scotland have asked for.
“Scottish Greens believe that dignity, compassion and respect must be at the heart of our institutions. It doesn’t seem to matter what Minister is in charge. The inhumanity, the cruelness and the distortion of evidence carries on regardless.”
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