Apparently the minister behind the "racist van" campaign that targeted ethnic minorities with threats of deportation has resigned. This is because he employed an illegal immigrant.
UPDATE
The commentator below makes a fair point about language that I half accept. "Illegal immigrant" is an emotive term, and I don't know about the details of the individual concerned so I should have made that clear. Whether or not immigrants are illegal, there is often nothing wrong with what they are often doing which is seeking to better their circumstances. My main point was that a government minister is caught by the same rules he seeks to impose on the everyone else. If he can't get them to work, should he not rethink them?
2 comments:
She is not an "illegal immigrant", she is a human being with hopes, dreams and aspirations like any other. How disappointing that you have adopted the nasty dehumamising language of the mainstream media.
Your update misses the point, as I expected. People are not illegal, even though their actions may be. That is why there is a pan - European movement which gathers under the slogan "No one is illegal".
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