The Pleasure Of Phil Woolas
Posted on September 22, 2009
Today French riot police surrounded and dismantled the Calais migrant camp known as ‘the Jungle’, taking the residents, who are mainly from Iraq and Afghanistan into custody.
New Labour immigration minister Phil ‘I’m not a racist’ Woolas told BBC radio he is ‘very pleased’ and, brazenly ignoring the connection between wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the flow of refugees, went on to praise the British soldiers ‘doing an incredibly important and brave job’ so that ‘we’re able to deport people to those countries — we do deport to Afghanistan and Iraq now, and that’s partly because of the efforts of the soldiers — and quite right too.’ This statement comes only a few days after dozens of Afghan villagers were incinerated in a NATO airstrike. The squalid little bureaucrat was boasting about the deportation of people to countries where they face persecution, torture and death, like a Gauleiter gloating about the number of trains he had sent east that day.
The government’s immigration policy is not only a national shame, it is an international embarrassment, with Pakistani pipe bands and trade delegations being refused entry to Britain. Woolas likes categorising people. He refers to ‘boat people’ as if they have anchors instead of arses, but the worst indignity of all is that he calls human beings who do not have the right skin colour or passport ‘illegal people’, ie people who are themselves illegal, totally dehumanising them. They are lumps of meat. Illegal meat. Unwanted meat to be discarded.
End the incarceration of migrants — No One Is Illegal
