Letters to the Editor – The Battle for the UK is in full swing!!!!

Sir,

The Asylum System and its Abuses:
The most notorious example is that of the nine Afghan men who hijacked a Boeing 727 on an internal flight in Afghanistan and forced its crew to fly to Stansted airport in February 2000. They were convicted of hijacking and false imprisonment in 2001 but their convictions were quashed by the Court of Appeal in 2003 because of a mistake in directing the jury in the original trial.

In 2004 they were granted leave to remain in the UK when a panel of asylum adjudicators ruled that returning them to Afghanistan would breach their Human Rights in accordance with the human rights Act 1998
Even Prime Minister Tony Blair, who introduced the Act, called it, “an abuse of common sense’’ The Home Secretary, John Reid, challenged the ruling in the court of Appeal, however the Court dismissed the appeal on 4th August 2006, and the hijackers were allowed to remain in the UK. The message sent out to the world could not be clearer: hijack a plane, come to Britain, claim asylum-and you will be allowed to stay.

This is one of the many reasons we need to remove ourselves from the EU.

James Cole

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