The government are clearly in one hell of a mess, concerning immigration I think I have just found what John Reid, and Tony Blair need. Clearly employees of the Home Office have no stomach for dealing with illegal immigrants into this country whether they are here just purely for the money or in the worst case scenario to lead a life of crime. Although Tony Blair is clearly no longer in touch with reality (at least the reality you and I know) even he is starting to feel the exasperation of the British people who are tired of the Home Office ineptitude and have had enough. I would suggest that they need tenacious but sympathetic people to deal with illegal migrants may I suggest that they look no further than at Dover District Council.
A 74 year-old man has been jailed for 23 days for unpaid council tax, retired seaman George Frost, for failing to pay £991.41, I find it ironic that there have been hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants pass through Dover without let or hindrance adding billions to social costs of education, health etc.
Magistrates apparently ruled on Monday that he had willfully refused to pay, I would just say that I have never met a magistrate who is on the breadline, assuming that their judgment is correct I say so what couldn't they have given this man a community sentence perhaps the made him watch our rather smug deputy Prime Minister being humiliated in the House of Commons today.
However sympathetic the council in Dover think they have been in dealing with this gentleman it still seems rather draconian given that our Prime Minister and Home Secretary have pretty much given up all pretence of sovereignty or border control of this country. The thing that really bites my bottom is the thought that legions of lack lustre, mediocre civil servants have negligently degraded our borders and rendered them non-existent will any of these people lose their jobs let alone their liberty I don't think so.
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We are to soft in this country time was when we could give someone the birch or send to the colonies for non payment or was stealing bread anyway
ReplyDeleteOld people are an easy target. That dover lot must be worse than ours.
ReplyDeleteA good friend of mine works at thwe Home Office and is responsible for one of the 'desks'. He has case workers dealing with cases. He makes a decision when the file reaches him based on current legislation and regulations, which change weekly. It's not that the Home Office don't have the stomach for it, it's because they have to apply the law to each case and that takes time, coupled with the number of cases, it's slow moving.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 11:40am
ReplyDeleteWhilst there maybe some considerable bureaucracy in determining someone's right to remain in the United Kingdom, I feel if there was more urgency in maintaining our country's borders from the higher echelons within the Home Office then we would not have the problem we have today.