Dear Nick Herbert,
Good job on holding the government to account over the spectacular failure in deporting foreign criminals, despite Gordon Brown pretending to talk tough a little while ago on this very subject.
I don’t know what the Conservative Party’s plans would be if they come to power at the next election. To my mind, this is one of those desperately simple issues. If a foreign national is found guilty of a crime in this country, they get deported. We take their fingerprint and personal details and make sure they never ever ever ever are allowed back into the country. It seems so blindingly obvious, but I doubt the Conservative Party would risk getting into trouble about this so I won’t be surprised if they hold off making any firm commitments to a policy. Prison places are in short supply in this country and yet 11,000 of the 81,000 people in our prisons are foreigners. A simple solution could save a lot of time and money and I think you’d be surprised how popular it would be with people from across the political spectrum.
I await your future announcements with great interest.
Yours sincerely,
A.Tory
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Winston // December 21, 2007 at 11:24 am
Thank you for highlighting this important issue on your blog. But I would take it one step further and not only free the tax-payer from prison fees but also from the cost of deportation. Either the guilty party pay for their own deportation or the public invest in a bullet. Problem solved cheaply and effectively and with an added deterrant value.
Those who do not respect human rights themselves shall not be protected by them. I still hate the idea of human rights for all, surely you need to deserve those rights and some people don’t.
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