Mark Harper is a classic example of a ‘do as I say, not as I do’ political hypocrite.
BRITISH ANTI-IMMIGRATION POL RESIGNS AFTER LEARNING HOUSEKEEPER ILLEGALLY ENTERED COUNTRY
Mark Harper, Britain's immigration minister, resigned from his post after it was discovered that his housekeeper was in the country illegally
By David Harding
New York Daily News
February 9, 2014
Oh, the irony.
Britain's immigration minister has quit because he employed an illegal immigrant to clean his house.
Mark Harper was even behind a controversial "go home" campaign in the UK urging those without the right papers to leave the country.
But Harper had to resign after it emerged that a member of his own staff was breaking the rules for which he was responsible for enforcing, reports the Guardian.
It only came to light because Harper said "reasonable checks" should be carried out on immigrants' paperwork.
As a result, he looked into the papers of his cleaner.
"In retrospect, I should have checked more thoroughly," Harper told the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, according to the Guardian.
Immigration has become a huge issue in the UK, with the government trying to enforce tougher rules to stop non-Britons entering the country.
One rights campaigner called Harper's resignation a "bitter irony."
1 comment:
Politician and Hypocrite is pretty much a redundancy. Not always, but usually.
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