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Why a Labour MP is ashamed of his party

By Mark Pack | Thu 1st February 2007 - 8:34 am

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Austin Mitchell writes in today’s Independent about how a family from his constituency got deported. The whole story adds up to a damning indictment of the way Labour ministers run the system – acting slowing, turning up late and leaving early, leaving key doucments untranslated from Urdu, and more.

Mitchell concludes:

It leaves a nasty taste. An out-of-control Immigration and Nationality Directorate is doing what it wants to get deportations up. The minister goes along, ratifies its decisions (he hardly ever rejects them), observes its deadlines and strings MPs along, pretending to listen while doing nothing. … Perhaps we’ll win enough National Fronters to compensate for the loss of the many liberals this has alienated. I don’t know. But I do know how I feel. Ashamed.

The full story is in The Independent.

Hat-tip: Duncan Borrowman

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One Comment

Will 5th Feb '07 - 9:36am

That explains why he was standing on College Green as I walked in the other day…

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