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UK immigration minister resigns over major gaffe: employment of foreign cleaner

Tuesday, February 11th 2014 - 08:33 UTC
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Britain’s immigration minister has resigned over the illegal employment of a foreign cleaner, a major gaffe given the UK government’s clampdown on immigration of all kinds. Read full article

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  • A_Voice

    What usually happens in the UK when an employer gets caught employing an illegal immigrant is they get a hefty fine....I wonder did the Govt. fine themselves...?
    I reckon not....

    Feb 11th, 2014 - 12:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CabezaDura2

    With so many unemployed locals that cant afford to pay winter heating you would think they would get the job…

    Feb 11th, 2014 - 12:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Mendocino

    They can't give the job to a local because if they do they are clearly English racist scum!

    Feb 11th, 2014 - 04:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • LEPRecon

    Yawn!

    Old news, this has been out for days. Mercopress really are behind on this one.

    Feb 11th, 2014 - 04:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • golfcronie

    At least he has the honesty to put his hand up, not like in Argieland they would hang on to power as long as they can. What a sad lot of losers in Argie Government. You only have to look at Boudou

    Feb 11th, 2014 - 05:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GFace

    A Nannygate! Oh so typical and always so bipartisan. Sappy Spend-other-peoples-money Liberals and Oi!-Speak-English!-Nativist Conservatives alike loathe paying The Help anymore than they need to.

    Feb 11th, 2014 - 06:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    hey come on lads,
    we all make mistakes,

    its just that we make more mistakes than normal...lol

    Feb 11th, 2014 - 07:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GFace

    @7 He should be praised for his efficiency. SEVEN felonies before breakfast! Top *that* New Labour! (if you *can*). And they of course will see his cleaning lady raise him with a couple gardeners and an au-pair (odd that, since the person's kids will be in college).

    Feb 11th, 2014 - 07:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    Top *that* New Labour!
    ha ha,
    give them time, give them time .lol

    Feb 11th, 2014 - 07:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ross

    Not very British.Harper is a disgrace.No excuses.He is an embarrassment.This is not a laughing matter.

    Feb 12th, 2014 - 01:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    who is laughing.

    Feb 12th, 2014 - 01:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ross

    he who says who.

    Feb 12th, 2014 - 02:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    who

    Feb 12th, 2014 - 06:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • A_Voice

    .....this thread has an infestation of Owls...Twit t who...?

    Feb 12th, 2014 - 07:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    who who..

    said the owl as he sits in the tree,
    watching lurking ,
    but he deserved the sack, did he not.

    Feb 12th, 2014 - 07:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • A_Voice

    Briton...I don't know the details...how foreign the immigrant was....a lot of them are Eastern Europeans mixed with Russians that appear to have the right documentation...Ukraine etc...
    They often pass a cursory glance at passport and documentation...
    It was probably not even him that decided, but one of his managers....
    It's all about removing political embarrassments and leverage.
    There's nothing worse than a showdown in the the Commons and point scoring for trivialities....That's my opinion....
    I don't think he deserved the sack.....

    Feb 12th, 2014 - 08:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CabezaDura2

    16-

    Quite right no Minister in any country chooses the applicants for cleaners as employees.

    Feb 12th, 2014 - 08:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    @1, 16 Changed your tune, haven't you? Let's see now; British minister arranges to employ a cleaner; looks at docuemts supplied(?); continuing checks (why were there continuing checks?); minister is informed that cleaner is illegal immigrant; minister resigns (not “sacked”). Can we imagine an argie or Scottish minister doing the same? Argies we can understand. Like other latams, they are all corrupt criminals. Scotties? Well, their own “First Minister” (criminal) won't explain how he justifies spending tens of thousands of pounds trotting out to the United States with his huge entourage. There IS an explanation. It goes like this “If you shut up, we can fiddle this through the ”accounts“ so that the English taxpayers pay”. Now what's wrong with being honest about that? All English people know that there hasn't been an “honest” Scot in the last 5,000 years. Even then it was an “error”. Know why Scots wear kilts and no underwear? It's so they can steal “small” valuable things and hide them in their arses. That's when they aren't raiding and stealing across the border. Frontier minefields will be an essential. So many new “editions” of the “Flying Scotsman”.

    Feb 12th, 2014 - 09:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    Well what ever happens will happen..

    Feb 13th, 2014 - 10:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0

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