Foreigner!

My mother has been told twice this week she is a foreigner, first by the bank and second by her work who asked her to send her passport to prove she is eligible to work here! She has worked for them for 5 years!I told her to tell them to bugger off, and point out she has lived here for 55 years, has voted in numerous general elections, paid tax for 55 years and had 2 sons and a husband in the British Army.As well as that Irish people don't need a passport to enter the UK and NEVER have, long before the formation of the EU and our entry into the EU. Liverpool was built and maintaned by a steady stream of Irish for centuries, and to a lesser extent most of our major cities.This country is shooting itself in the head with ridiculous red tape and spurious, needless checks. There has to be a certain amount of common sense when trying to detect if someone is a johnny foreigner, picking on 70 yr old women who have worked for half a century and sound about as foreign as Hilda Ogden is not the way.I could understand myself being asked as I seem to be mistaked for South African, Australian or German.