Friday, 30 October 2009

A selection of recent media reports

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)

UK plans Zimbabwe asylum removals
The Home Office has announced it wants to resume the removal of failed Zimbabwean asylum seekers. Immigration minister Phil Woolas said the ground was being cleared to start enforced returns "as and when the political situation develops".
Southern Counties (29-Oct-2009)

To treat or not to treat?
What happens when migrants cant pay for treatment? asks Adam...
New Law Journal (29-Oct-2009)

Cap immigration call by MP
THE projected population rise to over 70 million is dangerously unsustainable and would equate to an extra 15,000 people on the Isle of Wight, Island MP Andrew Turner has...
Isle of Wight County Press (29-Oct-2009)

The real 'political purpose' behind immigration - gerrymandering Labour's election results
One approach politicians have to getting a majority of us to vote for them is to split us up into interest groups. Their idea is that with enough grievance mongering among enough minority groups eventually a coalition will be formed that can provide a...
Daily Mail (28-Oct-2009)

Kuwait court rejects bid to unseat non-Hijab MPs
Kuwait's constitutional court on Wednesday rejected an action brought by four voters to declare invalid the election of two women MPs because they refuse to wear the hijab...
Yahoo Uk And Ireland News (28-Oct-2009)

GMB Slams Immigration Advisory Service Over Threats To Close Four Offices Sacking 80 Workers
There is no redundancy situation at IAS say...
GMB (28-Oct-2009)

Immigration links to carbon problem
SIR While welcoming Councillor Liz Tuckers letter We need to cut our carbon missions, of October 14, its meaningless. If Coun Tucker really thought our carbon emissions and consumption of the worlds resources was unsustainable, she would be enraged at the millions of people being poured into our...
Worcester News (28-Oct-2009)

One More Trip on the Immigration Merry-Go-Round
This post on immigration prompted a pair of excellent, Chestertonian responses that merit a response. First, Carroll Barry-Walsh writes: Of course, it's the type of people we let in because there is a difference between letting in people who share our values, who want to - and take positive steps to..
The Spectator (28-Oct-2009)

Migrant crime cover-up row
A REPORT linking immigration to crime was censored by Labour, it was claimed last...
Online Sun (28-Oct-2009)

MASS IMMIGRATION COVER-UP EXPOSED
THE number of foreigners flocking to Britain has leapt by 50% in six years, say shock new figures. And furious critics claim Ministers have been secretly encouraging people to move...
Daily Star (28-Oct-2009)