Does The Home Office Have Any Business Meddling In The Affairs Of Buckingham Palace?

[sandyRoe]

If ER wants to employ this chap who is Theresa May to deny her?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/royal-baby-footman-badar-azim-2106318

[sandyRoe]

Can you imaging some sideburned 19th Century politicial denying Victoria the services of Abdul Karim?

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTNGst8fg_-6lVbWXGGnuaNC31W-q5IZy5mUkpVI95X8ODb6fyI

[WELSHYORKIE]

This is what I don't get with this, or any other, government. This chap is working, providing a service, paying tax and NI, presumably, and is contributing to society, yet they allow scroungers to remain in Britain - madness.......

[Brenden]

The law is the law, he was here on a two year visa, he should be sent home and apply for a permanent visa in the correct manner - I am sure he will have the highest references to obtain same.

[Svejk]

Agree with Brenden. Imagine the howls of outrage if Her Maj was above the law.
Mind you, it always seems to be decent sorts get scooped up in these laws. The indecent ones seem to have an army of people using a plethora of laws to stay put.

[Maydup]

He would have had a student visa followed by a working visa which has now expired. Happens to millions of people and the Home Office are accused of inefficiencies if they do not keep on top of this soft route into the country.

[Sqad]

I agree with Brenden, he should return to India and apply in the correct manner.....that is if he isn't offered a job in a top Indian Hotel.

What about the British unemployed, wasn't there anyone suitable?

[sandyRoe]

There may have been. But Buck House has long shown a taste for employing foreigners. Queen Victoria had Abdul Karim and John Brown in her entourage.

[douglas9401]

Och, you're a wee scamp Sandy. :)

[EDDIE51]

He was here on a student visa and then got a 2 year temporary work visa to get work experience after qualifying. The visa expired and he had to go back home as would any other person in the same position. The Royal family does not have special permission to break the immigration rules. Just imagine the row if he was given special permission to stay just because his job was at the palace.

[237SJ]

I think it`s a bit of a non-story. He`s here on a work visa which is coming to an end. He will go home with qualifications and work experience so the St Mary`s charity achieved what it set out to do.

[Peter Pedant]

Does ER have to obey her own laws just like anyone else even if it is the employment act 1994 ?

yeah I think so - Didnt we chop off the head of the last one who said he didnt ?

Abdul Karim was not to everyone's taste - altho I have to say that the snippets of VR's diary in Arabic script arent bad at all ( Urdu I wd have thought - Hindi doesnt use Arabic does it ? ) AK was erm treated for VD - no not VR.

and John Brown was universally loathed by just about everyone except his Sovereign. Things to do when you first become King - Edward VII's was to order the room of John Brown preserved by his mother be emptied and burnt.
(Whereas Edward VIII's was to order that all clocks at Sandringham be restored to GMT - his father ran them all half and hour to an hour fast.)

[McMouse]

This is not meddling in Buck House affairs by the Home Office. It is merely enforcing the lay of the land. This guy had a valid work permit which has now expired. Seems to me there is a job vacancy which could be filled by an unemployed Brit.

[andy-hughes]

Theresa May is the Home Secretary, and part of her role is to uphold the law, and I doubt if the Queen would be keen to be standing in her way.

[DJHawkes]

I've read the link and it's not like he was avoiding the law with the visa, he knew it was ending, he's done nothing wrong but the press have probably caused him more upset than treesaregreen.

[sandyRoe]

Shouldn't a monarch be able to expect from good servants, whether footmen or Cabinet Ministers, that they would anticipate her wishes? The fact that she had employed this young footman should have been a clear enough signal to Theresa May that she wanted him to stay.

[Brenden]

The government have to start somewhere sorting out the illegal migrants - which I might add is mostly down to Blair & co. I am all for identity cards, national data base (birth, marriage, death and cancel out insurance Nos etc after the latter) that should be a start.