Saturday, 9 May 2009

May, 9 2009

I can't let the nice people in and the nasty people not: Minister enrages Joanna Lumley AGAIN as Gurkha affair descends into farce
Furious Gurkha campaigners have mocked the latest attempt by humiliated Immigration Minister Phil Woolas to defend the government's policy shambles on residence... 
Daily Mail - (08/05)

More houses are needed - Government
PROPOSALS to build thousands more homes across south Worcestershire have moved a step closer after the Government said the local population could grow even faster than... 
Worcester News - (08/05)

Pious, loyal and unhappy
Less like their non-Muslim compatriots than adherents of Islam elsewhere, but British... 
Economist - (07/05)

Ministers in disarray as Gurkhas strike again
The Government suffered another day of embarrassment at the hands of Joanna Lumley yesterday after it wrote to five Gurkhas refusing them residency. The actress and campaigner, who a day earlier had emerged from Downing Street to say that she was reassured by Gordon Browns promise that he would do the... 
The Times - (07/05)

Lumley forces government to raise white flag over Gurkhas
Gordon Brown all but raised the white flag last night in the battle over the Gurkhas after Joanna Lumley yet again took the starring role in a piece of political theatre at... 
The Herald_uk - (07/05)