‘sfunny the things you can use political power for
THE government has secretly calculated there are about 500,000 illegal immigrants in Britain despite repeated claims by ministers that they do not know the scale of the problem.
The figure has been compiled by Home Office officials. Yet one of its ministers told MPs in February there was “no official estimate”.
The research was ordered by Tony Blair more than a year ago “as a matter of urgency” following a Downing Street summit on immigration, a confidential Whitehall memo reveals.
However, in the face of a political controversy over lax controls at Britain’s borders, experts involved were told not to reveal the figure.
So begins the lead article in today’s Times Online.
One quite expects governments to “finesse” or just hide inconvenient information. In the public mind “secrecy” and “Whitehall” go together like peaches and cream. But from what pain and discontent, precisely, are our wise and far-seeing rulers protecting us now? Surely, they can’t fear that we shall resent the news of 500,000 illegal but always, of course, vibrant and diverse “saints” walking among us. Why, they told us that kind of thing was a cause for celebration. Isn’t it, then?
Posted by Andrew L on Mon, 18 Apr 2005 04:52 | #
I think I get it now, The intention in the long run is replace private property rights, substituted for Social Justice, That is how socialists of any ilk are thinking, Mind you these Socialists are the one Parasitic element that depend on Governments, TAX Payer, to Substantuate their existance, for there is not an original Idea, nor capable of one, so the likely hood of surviving in the any enterprise that requires any thought would cause self destruction, Not a Bad Idea, when do we start? The frightening thing is these Idiots ,supposid Economic graduates, pretend to be the pro-s of everything,But masters of nothing with the exeption of total Ignorance.