Given it's Friday, it's important that any fisking of anything should have an amusing angle to it, and what could be more amusing than a press release issued by John "Where's my brain?" Reid, boasting about how he is giving new powers to immigration officers to "protect" us and the UK borders.
Don't laugh too much, but it says:
"Building stronger borders, tackling organised crime and removing incentives for illegal immigrants to come to Britain are at the heart of the UK Borders Bill published today."
You have to wonder if they did it with a straight face as crime rises, and the paedophiles escape prison. These new powers will apparently include:
"arrest people smugglers or traffickers even if their crimes were committed outside of the UK;"
...but we won't put them in prison, we'll tell them off and ask them not to do it again, and request that they weed some old ladies garden to make up for it.
"detain at ports individuals they suspect of having committed a crime, or those with a warrant outstanding against them;"
We've not decided where we're going to detain them or for how long. Technically saying "stop there" for just a minute is a detention of sort you know! Please don't ask us to define what "detain" means. Pretty please?
"arrest those they believe to have fraudulently been acquiring asylum-support, and to exercise associated powers of entry, search and seizure;"
Do not ask us to explain the difference between arrest and detain, it will just make you angrier.
"access Her Majesty's Revenue Customs (HMRC) data to track down illegal immigrants."
Assuming we can get the IT to work and no one has wiped the emails.
How much longer can Reid survive?
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