Not Quite So Moral an Outrage as We Had Been Led to Believe

Wee Nicky claimed last week that the Government had stopped Agent Smith's practice of deporting people who face persecution because of their sexual indiscretion, so this should come as no surprise. A twenty-two-year-old woman is awaiting deportation to the Christian country of Uganda, where homosexuality is illegal and where she was branded with a hot iron after being outed in a magazine. The UK Border Agency, with its usual British common sense, concedes that the lady has scars consistent with having been branded with a flat-iron, but does not believe that she has thereby suffered ill-treatment. Whatever she says about the experience now, at the time she may well have found it rather fun; and she is, after all, an asylum seeker.