Saturday, 31 October 2009

A selection of recent media reports

Three jailed for human trafficking
THREE men have been jailed for a total of nearly ten years after police uncovered a human trafficking ring for prostitution which included a brothel in...
Worcester Standard (30-Oct-2009)

How Labour lost the white working class
Immigration has become a subject so toxic, generating such splenetic aggravation, that it is worth stopping to ask why it is virtually impossible to have a rational debate on the...
Evening Standard (30-Oct-2009)

The Nonsensical Neather Plot
Conspiracies are all the rage these days. And since this has turned into Immigration Week here one might as well address the Neather Brouhaha. This, British readers will need no reminding, refers to the uncovering of the nefarious New Labour plan to destroy Britain and spike the Tories' guns forever...
The Spectator (30-Oct-2009)

Lawyers accused of 'exploiting' lax legal aid regime after being overpaid by £25m
Lawyers were last night accused of 'exploiting' the lax legal aid regime after they were overpaid £25million of taxpayer's money by a Government...
Daily Mail (30-Oct-2009)

France: Refugees
On 22 September this year French immigration minister Eric Besson ordered the clearance and destruction of the 'Jungle' refugee camp in Calais. He said it was to deter migrants from massing at the port as they tried to enter the United...
AP TV News (30-Oct-2009)

Tony 'the twister' Blair now wants a free ride on the Euro Express
The EU job may suit the former PM, but it would do nothing for Britain, argues Jeff...
Telegraph.co.uk (29-Oct-2009)

Zimbabwe tension mounts, but UK deportation resumes
Deportation flights taking failed asylum seekers back to Zimbabwe are set to resume, the British Government announced today, just one day after a UN torture investigator was prevented from entering the country and a leading human rights organisation warned it was on the brink of sliding back into...
The Independent (29-Oct-2009)

A-maize-ing cargo! 14 illegal immigrants caught sneaking into UK in tanker carrying 25 tonnes of starch powder
A tanker driver looked on in astonishment as he watched 14 illegal immigrants emerge from his cargo covered from head to toe in maize starch. Frenchman Ludovic Buns had transported 25 tonnes of the powder from Calais, France, to a packaging company in Devizes,...
The Mail On Sunday (29-Oct-2009)

Larger 'bribes' for Zimbabweans to return home
Failed asylum seekers from Zimbabwe are being offered £2,000 cash "bribes" to return home voluntarily despite the Home Office threatening to resume enforced...
Telegraph.co.uk (29-Oct-2009)

The public concern about immigration 
England is being changed fundamentally by large-scale immigration
The Times (29-Oct-2009)

France migrant policy criticised
Emma Jane Kirby BBC News, Paris France's system of detaining and deporting unaccompanied migrant children flown into Paris has been criticised in a damning new...
BBC News (29-Oct-2009)

Home Office offers failed asylum seekers cash to return to Zimbabwe
Government threatens to begin forcibly returning those who turn down sweetened voluntary repatriation...
U TV (29-Oct-2009)