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"Isn't this the same Charles Clarke who was quite outspoken in his views that senior executives in the private sector should "consider their position" and take responsibility for the failings of their companies?"
Ive never seen such a vitriolic reaction to nu labour on the BBC 'Have Your Say' pages... if you select the 'list by receommendations' option its quite staggering the complete contempt that people seem to feel for them at this time...
Not even the usual BBC tampering has managed to throw up even a single response in nu labours defence in the 10 or so pages ive read so far...
Ive never seen such a vitriolic reaction to nu labour on the BBC 'Have Your Say' pages... if you select the 'list by receommendations' option its quite staggering the complete contempt that people seem to feel for them at this time...
Not even the usual BBC tampering has managed to throw up even a single response in nu labours defence in the 10 or so pages ive read so far...
Let's hope the revelations this week are the 'tipping point' that ultimately leads to the downfall of these corrupt feckers.
The local elections next week will be the most interesting for many years.
JOHN REID, the new home secretary, is facing a fresh crisis over foreign criminals after a senior immigration official revealed that more than half of the 1,023 released in error will remain at liberty on the streets of Britain.
The official, a senior figure with the Home Office’s Immigration and Nationality directorate (IND), disclosed that not one of the 1,023 has so far been forcibly deported.
As the fallout from the fiasco that led to the sacking of Reid’s predecessor, Charles Clarke, continued this weekend, the official said that the criminals would never be sent back because their home countries, such as Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Algeria and Sierre Leone were considered “too dangerous”.
“In about 60% of these cases we are never going to get rid of them . . . They are simply not going to go,” said the official.
The disclosure undermines claims by Tony Blair that ministers have now sorted out the weaknesses in the system. The prime minister told MPs last week that the system for deporting prisoners was “now working” and the “presumption” would be that all foreign criminals would “automatically” be deported.
But human rights lawyers and IND sources, who asked not to be named, said the promise was effectively meaningless because many countries were either deemed too dangerous or would refuse to accept the returnees.
Surely it would be much cheaper to keep unsuitable people out in the first place?
Requiring visas from all non EU countries and checking before boarding, more customs staff, more dogs and detecting equipment, must cost less than huge police operations to track them down in big cities and enormous court costs not to mention the costs to victims.
Also there are laws to fine companies for employing illegals - why aren't they used?
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