Protecting Our Britishness

Those charming people in the UK Border Agency are still imprisoning children, but only for as long as is required before they can be deported as adults. Some are no doubt being returned to places like Afghanistan and Iraq, which Britain and its allies have done so much to civilise. Official guidelines, the flexible friends of so many hired Government thugs, state that estimates of asylum seekers' ages should err on the side of caution, and that in ambiguous cases people should not be detained unless "their physical appearance and/or demeanour very strongly indicates that they are significantly over eighteen". The war to protect British identity decrees otherwise, and UKBA's creative interpretation means that the number of unaccompanied child asylum seekers has dropped by almost two-thirds in the last four years. Of course, most days of the week the scumbag press will make it tolerably clear where the Home Office stands on the matter; but oddly enough, it appears that no Deputy Conservatives were available for comment.