Think you know the answer?
OK, here’s your starter for ten: which political party has as its policy the giving of grants to immigrants to encourage them to return to their home countries? If you think this is a ‘racist’ policy which could only come from the BNP you’d be wrong. The answer is, in fact, the Labour party.
The Labour government have a policy of offering illegal immigrants, failed asylum seekers and foreign criminals £3,000 to return home. There are however two problems with this policy:
(i) why on earth are we paying people who have no right to be in this country and who should be immediately kicked out with no right of appeal?
(ii) why is there no scheme in place to stop them simply waltzing back whenever they want?
The madness of this policy was amply demonstrated by the case of Hakim Benmakhlouf, an Algerian bag snatcher who was given £3,000 while in prison last July in return for him returning to Algeria. Unfortunately, the very next day he came back from Paris and returned to his life of crime. He has, once again, been sent to prison.
Given that Labour agree with the principle of paying immigrants to leave (even if they are doing so in the most cack-handed and moronic way imaginable), what is their problem with the BNP’s policy of offering £50,000 to those who wish to renounce their British citizenship and return, permanently, to their countries of origin? The BNP’s policy seems much more logical to me since we will only be giving money to those who are here legally and who therefore would not otherwise leave or be deported.
To say that this policy is ‘racist’ is clearly nonsense; it is the policy proposed by the late black Labour MP Bernie Grant, and was the policy of the Tory party back in the days when they were led by Edward Heath – hardly a raving right-wing extremist!
As for the problem of deportees returning to the UK, this could be easily solved by simply fingerprinting them and checking the fingerprints of all non-UK nationals on arrivals against this database. This is such a simple solution that I can’t imagine why on earth it has not been implemented already. The only answer I can think of is that Labour don’t really care about this problem, but that can’t be true, surely …?
