Sunday, 29 November 2009

A selection of recent media reports

Desperate foreign students seek charity
Hundreds of destitute Indian students have finished another free lunch at a Sikh temple in Southall, west London. It's not the dream of England they were...
BBC Health (29-Nov-2009)

LABOUR HAS CONDEMNED CHILDREN TO MEDIOCRITY
THE schools watchdog Ofsted issued a damning annual report this week, stating that one in three schools is failing to provide adequate teaching. More than two million children are being taught in schools that just aren t good enough, with many pupils leaving school at 16 lacking basic skills in reading,...
Daily Express (29-Nov-2009)

Baroness Scotland's maid facing immigration trial tells peer: See you in court
Attorney General Baroness Scotland could be ordered to appear in court if her former housekeeper stands trial on fraud and immigration offences next...
Daily Mail (29-Nov-2009)

Home truths
WE are in a deep recession. Public services struggle to manage. A generation of young people is desperate for jobs. Yet Labour STILL won't get a grip on immigration.
Online Sun (28-Nov-2009)

THE PERIL OF OPEN BORDERS
PORTUGUESE teenager Gerson Garcia was already on the run from sex attack charges in his own country when he entered...
Daily Express (28-Nov-2009)

Minaret vote is Switzerland's towering inferno
As referendum looms, supporters of ban accused of racism and...
The Independent (28-Nov-2009)

Lord Pearson plays the Islam card to win leadership of Ukip
Millionaire campaigner against immigration sees off four rivals to head...
The Independent (28-Nov-2009)

What a disgrace
Compare and contrast (1): Britain's most senior law officer, Baroness Scotland, is fined £5,000 and allowed to keep her £113,000-a-year job after employing an illegal immigrant as her...
Daily Mail (27-Nov-2009)

Labour's 3million migrants
THREE million immigrants have come to Britain during 12 years of Labour rule, shock figures revealed yesterday. 
The Sun (27-Nov-2009)

New UKIP leader 'not much of a politician'
The UKIP's new leader, Lord Pearson, admits to Krishnan Guru-Murthy that he was wrong to claim UK Muslims breed 10 times faster than other people. Former City insurance broker Lord Pearson of Rannoch will succeed Nigel Farage, who has led the party for the last three...
Channel 4 News (27-Nov-2009)

Baroness Scotland's housekeeper charged
The former housekeeper of Attorney General Baroness Scotland has been charged by the Crown Prosecution Service with a string of immigration...
Yahoo Uk And Ireland News (27-Nov-2009)

Switzerland to vote on plan to ban minarets
BBC News, Geneva On Sunday Swiss voters will have their say on a controversial proposal to impose a constitutional ban on the building of minarets. The proposal is backed by conservative Christian groups and by the biggest party in Switzerland's parliament, the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP), which..
BBC News (27-Nov-2009)

Profile: UKIP leader Lord Pearson
It is often argued that frontline politics needs more colour, that dull careerists are robbing it of any interest for most...
BBC News Political Edition (27-Nov-2009)