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(not satire – it’s the Tories!)
Teenage A-Level student Yashika Bageerathi was forcefully separated from her mother and deported alone yesterday.
No doubt aware of the strength of local feeling on the issue, Yashika’s local Tory MP David Burrowes had called for the Home Office to stop her deportation saying they were “far from compassionate” and that it was “compelling she should stay”.
Funny that.
Because just over a year ago, Burrowes was full of praise for the coalition’s new hardline on immigration and saying the government’s stricter immigration controls would “improve the integrity of our immigration system“:
Local MP welcomes new immigration controls
Is that the bitter taste of regret or just the sickly smell of hypocrisy I detect from Mr Burrowes?
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Pride's Purge 
Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog.
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A deplorable set of double standards. David should be ashamed of this.
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What… a hypocritical politician? Well who would have thought it? I’m absolutely shocked.
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Reblogged this on Vox Political.
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Reblogged this on sdbast.
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Don’t follow any political party but ive met this bloke David Burrows and he fights for his constituents and fought tooth and nail to keep a vulnerable man asperger sufferer Gary McKinnon from being deported when the rest of the government had signed him away to the USA
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Reblogged this on My Blog.
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Gary McKinnon’s case had huge popular support… and you might have noticed that politicians like being popular! Does that mean Burrows isn’t a hypocrite?
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double standards indeed….well for Cameron’s nanny it’s not what you….it’s who you know….that poor girl separated from her family…Burrowes you steaming hypocrite….well that’s what this goverment of total shits amount to…public school with no understanding whatsoever…jobs if you went to the right school…just look at the cabinet arse holes…well they talk out of them….THE FIGHT GOES ON….regards…sandra.
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if mp’s change their minds, on important public issues, or any issue in fact, they should let the public know, that they have….they are after all in high public office and are public servants…it is called duty…it is not about their personal choices or preferences, like tea or coffee etc…but something that has a profound affect on another human being…
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Absolutely right!
I was just trying to think of any MP who has actually done that, and I can’t! Can you?
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no one springs to mind…although they often claim that they serve, believe in transparency, honesty and openness…my logical conclusion is based on what they claim to have intent on doing, but rarely do….i say rarely because there may 1 or 2, but as we agree none spring to mind…
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OBD – The strange thing is that no politicians seem to understand that voters would respect them MORE if they admitted to being wrong occasionally… (it’s probably impossible for them to be respected less anyway!)
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they’ve got their (our) pots of gold and gold plated pensions etc etc…they don’t care…truth is what they can get away with…we all know about their recent history and why they made statements about winning back the voters respect….they think that by just saying that, we will be fooled into thinking that we do now respect them, words are often supposed to have meaningful actions…we give them the credit of our honesty and/or attempted honesty in words and actions…they don’t even bother in their actions, nor words…we should give them nothing…we are fools if we expect them to be as we…
whilst they have our assets, and power over them, they control us…
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P.S. OBD… the same argument applies to people who write on discussion sites.
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