So, apparently, the number of migrants from Eastern Europe is falling. Which is why Slough has a load of pregnant teenage Roma girls turning up. But the figures are totally wrong. Guess know how the Home Office came up with the new figures?
By asking people coming in via Heathrow and Gatwick to fill in a voluntary form. IF they fill in the form AND put that they are DEFINITELY planning to stay and work for at least a year, AND they aren’t planning to live in shared accomodation, then they’re counted as a migrant. Never mind the fact that almost all the cheap flights from Eastern Europe come into Stansted!

Oh, and asylum claims are down. Apparently.

Crime backlog is four times worse than they originally admitted.

Oh, now they’ve let a load of dangerous criminals go for a walk. They planned to make a large bomb, had criminal records, and this charming chap had been bailed twice. But it’s OK, because they’re not dangerous - they just shouldn’t be approached. And why are they walking free? Because detaining them would have breached their human rights.

And finally, for this mini-batch, it seems the government has made itself totally impotent. The country has become ungovernable.
For example, sham marriages may now take place, thanks to the Human Rights Act…

Controversial immigration rules aimed at stopping sham marriages are unlawful, says the Court of Appeal.

Judges said the law breached the fundamental rights of immigrants subjected to the vetting.

The High Court ruled in 2006 the law was incompatible with human rights on grounds of nationality and religion, particularly because those marrying in the Church of England were not subject to the same sort of scrutiny as couples from other faith backgrounds.

Nobody knows the scale of sham marriages, although senior registrars suggested that before the new legislation there could have been at least 10,000 a year.

Registrars at Brent Council in north London suggested in 2005 that a fifth of all marriages there were bogus, with officials able to spot couples who barely knew each other.

One 2005 case saw 25 people jailed for a sham marriage network stretching from London to Leicester.

According to Home Office figures, since the new checks were introduced the number of suspicious marriage reports received from registrars fell from 3,740 in 2004 to fewer than 300 by the end of May 2005.

Between January and August 2006, there were only 149 such reports, it said.

The Human Rights Act? Not in my name.

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