Some immigration sorts are going on strike because they don't like the fact that their pension and other arrangements are to be changed. They maintain that they deserve what many other hard-working folk see as inappropriately generous pension arrangements. They maintain this along with other Public Sector colleagues even in this appallingly dodgy financial situation. They can't see, or maybe understand, what is happening elsewhere in the world - and in Europe in particular.
The general public is actually rather tired of the poor performance it sees in the Public Sector; and it's tired of the cheeky bleats for better wages, pensions, working hours and so on. Now I don't doubt that some of them probably deserve more equitable treatment when the relativities of the whole of the Public Sector are considered together. Possibly, for example, in some Teaching and Police disciplines. But for heaven's sake if a part of the Public Sector wants something then it must surely earn respect from the general public first. Can the immigration service actually claim such a thing ?
Well let me think.....Letting a banned extremist into the country is not an action which commands respect. It's sloppy and it's stupid. It's another apparent example of incompetence or naivety. But then why should we be surprised ? Remember those fly on the wall programmes dealing with aspiring immigrants? How easy it seemed to be to pull the wool over the eyes of our immigration people and be granted a temporary 24hour "pass" to see the internet girlfriend. On the immigration grounds, it seems, that it would be rather unkind not to let them do so !! Of course the "pass" is conditional upon returning to the airport 24 hours later to catch a flight home.......oh yeah.......sure. Parliamentary question anyone ?
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