The liberal commentariat must acknowledge that failure to deal with flagrant abuse of asylum is unjustifiable
Some years ago one of my parliamentary colleagues, a Home Office minister, travelled on a bus from the immigration detention centre at Harmondsworth to Stansted airport with 43 migrants who were being removed to their home country. They had been in the UK for years, claiming to be refugees from the war in Kosovo.
During the course of the journey, however, they started saying, “Would you mind if we landed at Tirana?”
To which officials replied, “No, we are going to Pristina.”
“We would prefer to get out at Tirana.”