The UK government IMHO does not give immigration the seriousness and more importantly the resources required. Instead of driving the agenda forward they are always on a backfoot either responding to allegations of abuse or pandering to the political aspect of a tougher regime - we have had 3 immigration bills in 4 years each one trying to correct the flaws in the previous one. Rushing things through comes to mind everytime I hear another announcement resulting in the outside the rules approach to address inconsistencies.
On the matter of today's resignation the buck has to stop somewhere and there is only so many times you can say I did not know what my juniors were doing and it was not a ministerial decision - I think the e-mail from the consul in Bucharest did it eventually. Expect to see thigs hot up as the ascension countries join up. I agree too that processing times will increase - my view is that the worker regsitration scheme will be a total mess and is likely to get scuppered but only after the elections
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