Lest We Forget

Some people are never satisfied. Despite the Government's compassionate and courageous offer to help Iraqis who can prove they have worked for British forces for a year or more and who are prepared to leave their families behind, one Haider Samad is still pleading for help. Samad, who has worked for the British army and for a British mercenary outfit, says that he is on several death lists and that Basra city council has "issued an edict stating that anyone helping the Samads would be charged with serious offences against the state". He also says that at least thirty other interpreters who worked for the freedomisers in southern Iraq have already been murdered, and that anyone with links to the foreign fighters in the region is being purged. Our boys certainly seem to have done a wonderful job making the place safe for democracy.

Meanwhile, a whopping forty-four MPs, including a whopping three Conservatives, have bothered to sign Early Day Motion 2057; and the Government has pointed out once more that anyone who can prove they have worked for British forces for twelve months continuously, etc., etc. All they need do is apply to the Home Office's Gateway Programme, which is dedicated to "securing our borders, enforcing our immigration laws and managing migration to the benefit of the UK".