Sunday, 18 October 2009

A selection of recent media reports

How the BNP's far-right journey ends up on primetime TV
Nine years ago BNP leader Nick Griffin set out plans to cleanse the party's image in his bid to win over the media. On Thursday he joins BBC's Question Time, an appearance that has already caused controversy will his views be rebuffed, or will he flourish in the media...
Guardian.co.uk (18-Oct-2009)

Influx of 1m migrants will cripple public spending, warn MPs
NEW immigrants will add almost 1m people to Britains population over the next five years, creating huge pressure on public spending, a group of leading MPs has...
Times Online (18-Oct-2009)

Attorney-general Baroness Scotland demands ministerial Jaguar
THE attorney-general, Baroness Scotland, has sparked anger among colleagues by insisting on the use of a chauffeur-driven Jaguar a privilege usually reserved for a handful of senior cabinet...
Times Online (18-Oct-2009)

The BNP wont go away if we ignore it
How should an open society like ours respond to those who try to whip up hatred between races or classes? For many, the BBCs invitation to the racialist British National party leader, Nick Griffin, to join the panel on Question Time this week stretches tolerance too...
Times Online (18-Oct-2009)

Refused asylum seekers were not Iraqi: spokesman
Around 30 asylum seekers who were refused entry to Iraq after being deported by Britain were barred as they were unable to prove they were Iraqis, a government spokesman said...
Yahoo Uk And Ireland News (17-Oct-2009)

Iraq deportees in UK await fate
Around 30 failed asylum seekers remain in UK detention after being refused re-entry to Iraq when their deportation flight landed in Baghdad. Only 10 refugees were admitted by Iraqi authorities on...
BBC News (17-Oct-2009)

Camper van people smugglers jailed
Two people smugglers from the Black Country caught with four illegal Indian immigrants in a hired camper van were today starting a three-year jail...
Express and Star (17-Oct-2009)

STOWAWAYS ON THE RUN
ILLEGAL immigrants are on the run in Burton after slipping through a police net. A group of stowaways was caught jumping from the back of a lorry at...
Burton Mail (17-Oct-2009)

Lack of immigration policy debated
A debate on asylum seekers has provoked an SNP activist to say that the party must face up to devising a policy on immigration. Delegate Gerry Fisher spoke during a debate in which delegates backed a motion attacking the "abhorrent" voucher system "foisted on Scotland by the Westminster...
Morpeth Herald (17-Oct-2009)

Surveillance of Muslims: The lives of the other
The implementation of the Prevent strategy might make perfect sense from the perspective of a Whitehall desk. Properly mindful of the small but real band of would-be Islamist terrorists, bureaucrats feel obliged to do whatever it takes to reach into a community with which they have precious little...
Guardian Unlimited - G2 (17-Oct-2009)

SHAM BRIDE COULDN'T SAY 'I DO'
HARDLY seemed the ideal basis for a happy marriage. The young couple about to tie the knot could not understand a word of each others...
Sunday Express (17-Oct-2009)

Fiasco as Iraqi deportees are turned back in Baghdad
The first attempt to return failed asylum-seekers to southern Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003 has been a fiasco for the Home Office, it emerged last...
Times Online (17-Oct-2009)

FRENCH OPEN NEW CAMP FOR UK-BOUND ILLEGALS
A PROMISED French crackdown on illegal immigration was exposed as a sham yesterday after the opening of a new camp for British-bound...
Sunday Express (17-Oct-2009)

DUTCH MP GREETED BY HATE MOB
ANGRY Muslims held a noisy rally in London yesterday as outspoken Dutch politician Geert Wilders made his controversial visit to...
Sunday Express (17-Oct-2009)

Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Hateful views we should not suppress
Plenty of people will be repelled by the thought of Griffin on TV, or Wilders in the...
The Independent (17-Oct-2009)

CASE OF IRAQI DEPORTEES SHOWS DANGERS WE FACE
THE refusal of the Iraqi authorities to accept a plane-load of their own citizens whose claims for asylum in Britain had been refused illustrates how difficult it is to repatriate people living here...
Daily Express (17-Oct-2009)