Better Together

Never let it be said that our great and tolerant country deports people indiscriminately. As if in direct response to any disapproving voices which may be raised over mere asylum seekers, the Home Office has withdrawn its threat to deport another man from an almost equally despised demographic. A head-teacher who worked in Scotland for nearly ten years had applied for indefinite leave to remain, only to be told that he was being sent back home. He was also informed, in case he failed to realise how great and tolerant Britain really was, that his four-year marriage was a sham. As it happens, Scotland has a shortage of head-teachers and a few politicians capable of persuading even the minions of May that the world's sixth-largest economy can accommodate one more without sinking beneath the sea. The fact that the immigrant in question is employed, American and white, rather than unemployed, African and terrorist-coloured, presumably never entered the discussion.