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The Home Office have been totally vindicated in their decision to drive around targeted areas of high ethnic minority population with mobile advertising billboards advising any illegal immigrant that they had better turn themselves in RIGHT NOW because they were being watched and they were arresting loads and loads of them IN THIS VERY AREA, every day.

It worked despite the huge outcry against the "racist vans" (and there was more than one van) and their subsequent withdrawal and their subsequent "Well we can't see anything wrong with it" stance taken ever since by the Daily Mail and The Governing Party - it worked because ONE MAN sent a text to The Home Office and took up their offer to be sent back to Pakistan.

Despite the fact that the vans were pulled from the road three months ago The Home Office have refused any request for information on their effectiveness but yesterday in Parliament immigration minister Mark Harper told MPs that he knew of the one man who had texted the service and so that was alright and it was an outstanding success for the estimated £10,000 cost of the four day campaign.

Its not been a very good week for the Go Home advertising geniuses at The Home Office either as "the racist vans" were also banned by the Advertising Standards Office as being "misleading and unsubstantiated" [urlhttp://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/10/08/go-home-van_n_4063643.html[/url with their claim that "106 arrests last week in this area", a claim that is still unproven and frankly, complete lies.

Don't forget folks, its OK to lie about things as long you you believe it to be so.

That'd be great if that was the intention, but (and I'm a betting man), I'd wager that the campaign was less about "sending the buggers back" and more about putting on some sort of "immigration clampdown theatre".

Oh surely not for that would mean spending £10,000 of taxpayers money on a politically motivated publicity campaign wouldn't it ?

It was surely just a complete coincidence that it all happened at the same time as UKIP were getting lots of positive publicity from xenophobic newspapers ?

Now you're just being cynical

He's channeling Iain Duncan Smith who, when challenged over some figures re benefits that he invented, observed that he believed them – thus justifying his use of fabricated figures.

Aaah! .... in which case believe should have been 'believe'.
Then I'd have known what it meant.

After this World Cup I wonder if the RFL will consider hiring the Stobart lorries to put "OVERSEAS PLAYERS GO HOME" as its about time we start investing in our own youth talent and stopping bringing over these pension hunting imports which mean England will once again fall short to the Kangaroos.

''Not been a good idea''.





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Excellent idea, but let's progress it a bit further. Why not reverse any empty trailers in the vicinity of these stuffed full Immigration Centres up to the front door....get the correct exit paperwork stamped up.....and with a cautionary eye on our carbon footprint, send a truck load rejoicing back down to the nearest Port!

Except for the exceedingly polite folks who simply can't bear to be beastly, it would be a win/win for everyone. Maybe not for for the unwanted illegals.

Obviously.

Not that much different from what happens, Stobart excepted.
So what's your point?


Ooh, you're so tough, we all look up to you.

So on the one hand, just stuff them in the back of a lorry (which is how some will have arrived here, the swines, so we act as badly as them/the people traffickers), but on the other hand, you want the paperwork to be correct and everything above board, which is half the battle in removing people in the first place.

Which is it? The illegal "chuck 'em in a van" route? Or the legal, by the book route? You sound confused.

Oh and the "stuffed full immigration centres" are fewer and further between in the UK than prisons that ARE stuffed full. Got any more vans handy?

Apart from this being a complete howler of a tactic, I do find the campaign very comical.
Aren't they really owning up to not having a clue about names, numbers and locations?

Isn't it really saying that fundamentally?

Because 'we' are so shambolic (Labour's fault of course) and are that clueless, we are asking 'you' to do the decent thing (the British thing) and do 'our' work for 'us'.
Please throw yourselves on the traps.
Monty Python where are you?