The Home Office of the United Kingdom have confirmed that Irish people will not be exempt from the Conservative governments recently announced proposal to compile a list of foreign workers.
In her speech at this year’s Conservative Party Convention, Home Secretary Amber Rudd floated the idea that businesses and schools would be required to gather information on which of their employees are foreign-born or non-nationals in an effort to curb and control immigration into Great Britain, and prevent foreign-born people from “taking the jobs that British people can do.”
The proposal has been met with widespread revulsion on social media, with many commentators comparing the labelling of foreign people with the Star of David that Jewish people were forced to wear in Nazi Germany.
When contacted by Irish media outlet The Journal, the UK Home Office confirmed that this proposal would initially apply to non-EU foreign-nationals before comprehensively including all non-British workers working in Britain.
A spokesperson for the UK Government reportedy refused to exempt Irish people from the measure.
Many on Twitter have already reacted with chagrin and disappointment to the plan:
We seem to have woken up with a UKIP government. Depressing doesn't even begin to cover it. pic.twitter.com/O8DYc6smdE
— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) October 5, 2016
Just got this text:
"Info required-If your child is not of British Nationality or was not born in the UK, pls inform the school by tomorrow"— Tim Colbourne (@twrc) October 5, 2016
UKIP donor @Arron_banks on May speech: "She's basically rebranded the Conservative Party UKIP" #Newsnight
— Ian Katz (@iankatz1000) October 5, 2016
https://twitter.com/MeanwhileScotia/status/783791723973672964
The United Kingdom on 4th October 1936 and the United Kingdom on 4th October 2016. pic.twitter.com/lrG14RKtig
— Alan McCredie (@alanmccredie) October 4, 2016
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