In this episode, migrants rights campaigner Zoe Gardner tells us why the UK Home Office should be dismantled. 

 

In a report she recently wrote for the Green Party, Zoe says the controversial department should be split up into two new ministries. 

 

We talk about the Home Office's acts of cruelty to migrants, refugees and people on the move, and how government policy of housing asylum seekers in unfit accommodation has created a billionaire. 

 

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You can follow Zoe on Twitter here: @ZoeJardiniere

 

And on Bluesky here: @zoejardiniere.bsky.social‬

 

Read the report, No Way Home? It is time to remove management of immigration from the Home Office here: https://carladenyer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/no-way-home-web.pdf

 

Zoe Gardner was last on The Civil Fleet Podcast in 2023. We spoke about UK's Illegal Migration Bill. Check out episode 38 for that

 

For more on the Windrush Scandal, see episode 39 of The Civil Fleet Podcast with filmmaker Sonita Gale

 

For more on the government removing the right to claim British citizenship from people who cross the Channel in small boats, see here: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9d5wj9l8e2o 

 

For more on the previous British government's plans to deport people to Rwanda, see episodes 62, 57, 49, 40, 38, 32, and 25

 

For more on Clearsprings Ready Homes, check out episode 40 with Corporate Watch. 

 

And read this story on the numbers of asylum seekers dying in Britain's Home Office Accommodation: https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2024/04/30/at-least-40-people-died-in-home-office-asylum-seeker-accommodation-in-2023/

 

Here's the book Zoe recommended, called Wreckonomics: Why it's time to end the war on everything. You can find that here: http://rubenandersson.com/wreckonomics. (Please don't buy it, or anything else, from Amazon)

 

Check out episode 49 to hear an interview with Paul O'Connor, then senior national officer at the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union

 

For more on the situation in Greece, check out episodes: 68, 60, 56, 53, 52, 50, 35, 34, 28, 26, 18, 9 and 4