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May 4, 2006

UK: Islamist Terror Suspect Rewarded With British Citizenship

This evening, Britain is waiting to see the results of today's local elections, where Labour appear to be doing badly. Tony Blair's government recently has stumbled from one embarrassing disclosure to another. Most notably these have featured his pug-faced pugilist Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, admitting to bonking his hamster-featured secretary, and his Home Secretary being embroiled in controversy. We reported on April 25 that Home Secretary Charles Clarke admitted that the Home Office had managed to lose 1,023 foreign criminals into the community, when they could have been deported. Since that disclosure was made, it was then revealed that Clarke had waited three weeks before telling Tony Blair about the lapse.

Clarke now admits to losing half of the dangerous criminals listed in the report.

The issue of deportations, or lack of them, for foreign criminals has this evening taken on a new urgency, as the media now takes on board the news that the Home Office not only allowed a suspected Islamist terrorist to remain in Britain, but also gave him a UK passport!

The news on this story was revealed initially by respected journalist Martin Bright, who is political editor for the New Statesman. Today, he began a political blog on the New Statesman with the news that a suspected terror suspect was imprisoned for two years for robbery, and that the Home Office had confirmed that the man had not even been considered for deportation.

Martin Bright's revelation was mentioned on the BBC 6 O'Clock TV News, and from there, the story spread through all news outlets, gaining more accumulated facts as it rolled on.

The man was jailed in the late 1990s, and now the Guardian (a paper Martin Bright has frequently contributed to) has more details. The man came originally from East Africa, and there are no records of his case being considered for deportation. The official regulations on such cases is that they should all be examined for potential deportation, and there are no records to prove this was done.

The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was released after serving only two years of his five-year jail sentence for robbery in September 1998, when Jack Straw, MP for Burnley was the Home Secretary. (Straw is now foreign secretary). BBC TV news states that he had been one of a gang of five people who used to mug people at knife-point in street-robberies. He had been 17 at the time of his conviction in 1996.

In September 2004, when David Blunkett took over from Straw as the Home Secretary, the man then applied for British citizenship, and was granted a British passport. Three months later, after a sex-scandal, the (literally) blind Blunkett left his position in tears, and Charles Clarke took over his position as Home Secretary.

UPDATE - May 5: Home Secretary Charles Clarke has been fired this morning. He moaned that he felt he had done a good job and did not agree with Tony Blair's decision to sack him, but accepted that decision. The philandering John Prescott has lost his cabinet post, but retains his title of "Deputy Prime Minister".

Labour had significant losses in the local elections, and the BNP made gains, picking up 11 council seats in Barking. The BNP also made gains in seats in the Midlands. These are local council elections, and do not affect the positions of MPs in parliament, but are a good measure of public feeling. In London, Conservatives did well in the south and south east, taking seats from Labour.

The Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw has lost his job as Foreign Secretary, and his post is replaced by Margaret Beckett. The new Home Secretary is John Reid. Straw is now given the role of "leader of the house", whatever that may entail.

In further humiliation, John Prescott has been described by his former secretary and lover, Tracey Temple, as having a penis the size of a cocktail sausage (about two inches), states the Sun. Whether this was in an "angry" or flaccid state is not mentioned.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at May 4, 2006 7:59 PM

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