David Blunkett has announced controversial plans to force failed asylum seekers home by putting their children into care. Always one step ahead - I’ve had to update the Blunkett policy maker again. Blunkett denies that he is the King Herod of the Labour Party (Steve Bell cannot resist having a dig). This threat to tear apart poor immigrant families and ruin innocent children is apparently ‘necessary’, but even Michael Howard thinks it is “going further than any civilised government should go”. You know things are going very badly wrong when the Tory leader is writing in the Guardian condemning a Labour Home Secretary for being too harsh.

Britain would be a better place without this ignorant thug in charge of law and order. From treating immigrants like shit and imposing expensive and impotent ID cards, to scoffing at “airy fairy civil liberties”, allowing the US to deport British citizens without trial and condemning the BBC for daring to expose police racism, he is well on his way to trampling over every right and due process of law we have fought for, in the name of getting his name in lights and appealing to the Daily Mail crowd. Shamefully, he argues that we’re in danger of letting the likes of the BNP gain votes, but then executes the exact kind of policy the far right are advocating. The longer he is in charge the worse things will get - but he wins enough petty-minded middle England swing votes so Blair will happily let him carry on.

This entry was posted on Friday, November 28th, 2003 at 21:11:59 and is filed under General.