Sunday 1 November 2009

A selection of recent media reports

DANGER ALERT AS SEX FIEND FLEES
Police were last night hunting a convicted rapist who escaped from immigration officials while being served with a deportation order. Sex fiend Imtiaz Hussain, 44, fled the Pakistan High Commission in central London and ran off into the...
The People (01-Nov-2009)

1,300 CHILDREN AT IMMIGRANT CENTRES
More than 1,300 children were detained at three immigration removal centres in the UK during a 15-month period, figures have...
Daily Express (01-Nov-2009)

Bogus student checks 'don't work'
Donal MacIntyre show, BBC Radio 5 live Immigration officers have warned bosses that new rules designed to stop bogus students entering the UK are not working, the BBC has...
BBC News (01-Nov-2009)

UK RETURNS IRAQI ON ASSAULT CHARGES
An Iraqi immigrant accused of running down his daughter because she was becoming too Westernised has been returned to Arizona to face aggravated assault charges after being denied entry to the...
UK Express (01-Nov-2009)

The new pragmatist?
France's minority communities are depressed about Sarkozy's intentions, but they may end up better represented than...
Guardian Unlimited - Comment is Free (01-Nov-2009)

Voters 'against' Blair for EU role
Voters are strongly opposed to either Tony Blair or David Miliband taking up top Brussels jobs to be created under the Lisbon Treaty, according to a...
Guardian.co.uk (01-Nov-2009)

The slow-motion New Labour putsch that swept our nation away
Once again, one of the biggest stories of the week has been widely ignored by the official political reporters, who are not interested in politics. This is the disclosure, by a New Labour apparatchik, Andrew Neather, of the real purpose of his partys immigration policy.
Daily Mail (01-Nov-2009)

Moving the retirement age goalposts
By Frank Field Published: 26 October, 2009 Frank Field MP for Birkenhead The last projected figures on population growth before the election have just been...
Pensions Week (01-Nov-2009)

SARKOZY DEFENDS FRENCH IDENTITY AS BLAIR LOOMS OVER EU
THERE is a lot of intense activity going on in the European Union at the moment. The usual demands that we send more money are par for the course (they are now demanding an extra £5million from us every day) but the bare-knuckle fighting for jobs that don t even exist yet is...
Daily Express (01-Nov-2009)

UK detained 1,300 child migrants
More than 1,300 children were held at UK immigration removal centres during a 15-month period, the government says. The figures were revealed in a letter from Immigration Minister Phil Woolas to Pete Wishart MP, the Scottish National Party home affairs...
BBC News (01-Nov-2009)

Labours secret scheme to build multicultural Britain
Can the recent success of the British National party be explained by the misguided immigration policy of the government? That was the killer question from the floor during the notorious episode of Question Time 10 days...
Times Online (01-Nov-2009)

What does the Serbian wife think of her husband... BNP's biggest donor?
His family's power and influence may have waned since the days when they owned great swathes of England, and a castle and country estates were named in their...
Daily Mail (31-Oct-2009)

Sleeping rough at 12 the boys who dreamt of Britain
The last asylum camp in Calais closed five weeks ago. Jerome Taylor discovers that children are among the unfortunates left at the mercy of people...
The Independent (31-Oct-2009)

Amsterdam engages disaffected Muslims
Cycling along a street in the east of Amsterdam five years ago on Monday, Theo van Gogh, the outspoken Dutch film-maker, was shot and, as he slumped on the ground, his murderer slit his throat and pinned a letter to his dead...
Financial Times (30-Oct-2009)

Franco-Italian call for regular' deportations goes unheeded
EU leaders back closer co-operation with Libya on immigration, but reject French and Italian call for regular EU-funded...
European Voice (30-Oct-2009)

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)