Running scared of illegals is criminal

CAN you doubt that the world is going mad or possibly to hell on a handcart?

This week’s footsteps on the path to the asylum (mad house rather than the jolly trick of travelling across the world to work here illegally or join the criminal classes) includes the revelation that immigration officers are not allowed to chase illegal immigrants who run away when approached for questioning.

Apparently, the UK Border Agency has banned pursuit of fleeing foreign spongers and those working here illegally (there are at least 500,000 illegal immigrants in Britain) because it fears that the suspect or the officer may be hurt in the chase — groin strains or fashionable metatarsal damage, perhaps.

Now you might think that chasing illegal immigrants is the very least that immigration officers should do on the behalf of those of us who are (foolishly, perhaps) here legally and paying all our dues but still have to wait four hours in A&E.

What about some serious sprint training and qualifications in martial arts so that we might at last begin to see more of these unwelcome parasites sent packing.

On the credit side, the UK Border Agency says that it removed 63,000 people from Britain last year but there is no mention of how many had saved up from their ill-gotten gains and simply enjoyed a glass of coffee at the airport and caught the next plane back to the good old UK.

So why don’t we become illegal immigrants, inflicting ourselves on some other society? Because we would either finish up in some barbaric jail, being flogged or stoned to death or die of starvation and thirst. Not quite as attractive as coming here, especially if you can run or even just walk fast.

ARE all of Oldham’s 6,500 incapacity claimants genuine or are some of them fit for work and cheating? Work Secretary Iain Duncan Smith is changing the rules so that the 6,500 have to prove that they can’t work if they want to continue to draw preferential benefits.

Most people, including people on incapacity benefit, will approve of the change because if the fraudsters are identified more money will be available for the genuine cases. But being fit for work is one thing, finding a job to do is something else entirely. With the Coalition Government adopting a strategy that will put thousands out of work and, presumably on Job Seekers’ Allowance where are the jobs for the suddenly and miraculously fit for work going to come from?


FINAL WORD: I don’t know what all the fuss is about the new squat toilets (how long will it be before we have them in Oldham?) a certain section of our society have been squatting and squirting in gardens, doorways and on every available wall for years.