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23 Sept 09 Baroness Scotland : More Facts, Questions and Comments   Baroness Scotland - unlike the vast majority of people listed in Who's Who - fails to give her date of birth, where she was born, and to whom.  A little research reveals that she was born in August 1955 on the island of Antigua, to Antiguan and Dominican parents.  The family moved to the UK as migrants when she was three.   Newspapers report that her Tongan cleaner was in the UK illegally (despite being married in the UK to a Brit).  If so, there can have been no "right documents" from the Home Office for the Baroness to see.  Therefore, she could not have mislaid them, or failed to copy them.  They did not exist.   Both Antigua and Tonga are members of the British Commonwealth.  How come we accept cleaners from eastern Europe but treat Commonwealth citizens as illegals - assuming that is what the Baroness's cleaner actually is?     Meanwhile, other even more serious questions arise.  What has become of the British legal system?  Recent events involving the Baroness are akin to the disgraceful standards usually seen in third world countries and revealed by people for whom personal gain far exceeds doing what is right.    Until a few years ago no-one would ever have believed a British lawyer holding high public office would dream of such behaviour, or denial.  Such a corruption of the British public norm would have been unthinkable.     Now, we ask ourselves, are we really surprised?  We have allowed ourselves to slither an alarmingly long way down the greasy slope to institutionalised corruption.    The origins are clear - a lethal combination of the third dysfunctional socialist government of my lifetime and the importation of appalling public standards regarded as the norm in the EU.  Footnote for non-UK readers :  Baroness Scotland holds one of the highest public law offices in the UK as Attorney General.  This week she was fined £5000 for employing an illegal immigrant as her cleaner.  She claimed afterwards that her failure to keep a proper record of the cleaner's status was only a 'technical' mistake, and that her 'crime' was not really a crime at all.  It was like having to pay a fine for a minor motoring offence.   To respond to, or comment on this Email, please email ashley.mote@btconnect.com Click www.ashleymote.co.uk to visit the site now.