Iraqi employees and interpreters: some are on their way
Some 2,000 Iraqis may be flown to Britain from next month to start a new life under a £25m government programme.
Very good news on the face of it although details are scant and I don’t like the look of that may. Let’s hope this is for reasons of these people’s safety and an unwillingness to upset core-vote Tories and their cheerleading newspapers rather than yet more political fudge and backsliding. This is worrying as well:
A Home Office spokesman said it was still at the very early stages of assessing eligibility but suggested the number of Iraqis given indefinite leave to stay in the UK could be up to 2,000.
Could be? May? And anybody with half an eye on this issue could tell you that the measures to help the Iraqi interpreters and employees have been in place for nearly five months. That being the case, why is the eligibility assessment ’still at the very early stages’? Why have only 46 cases been processed?
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
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