{"id":1221,"date":"2018-04-28T12:12:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T11:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2018-04-28T12:12:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T11:12:46","slug":"windrush-home-office-to-scrap-immigration-removals-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/windrush-home-office-to-scrap-immigration-removals-targets\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Windrush: Home Office &#8216;to scrap immigration removals targets'&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did warn Amber Rudd last week. Blaming your civil servants is a tactic that will come back and bite you firmly on the bottom The ship will suddenly become leaky and more than likely take you down with it\u2026and it\u2019s leaked news of yet more ridiculous target-setting.<\/p>\n<p>Employees who have to achieve targets to keep their jobs will either quit or find the easiest way to meet them. It\u2019s much easier for a tax inspector to bankrupt a struggling small business than to go after a tax-dodging corporation. Finding ways not to pay out benefits could help a civil servant avoid having to claim benefits themselves (see the brilliant-but-harrowing film, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ahWgxw9E_h4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018I, Daniel Blake\u2019<\/a>). Just as giving out loans to people without no hope of repaying them earned big bonuses for bankers before the crash. Will we never learn? Probably not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-43902599\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did warn Amber Rudd last week. Blaming your civil servants is a tactic that will come back and bite you firmly on the bottom The ship will suddenly become leaky and more than likely take you down with it\u2026and it\u2019s leaked news of yet more ridiculous target-setting. Employees who have to achieve targets to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[185,271,272],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}