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Academics accurately describe government approach to immigration

I’m glad to see some other people have the guts to tell the government how they are pandering to racism.

Whilst non-compliance might be a legal grey area, it’s good that these folks actually care about their students and don’t want to join in the right-wing obsession with immigration scares.

Amplify’d from news.bbc.co.uk
University academics say they will boycott new visa rules for overseas students that would make them into “immigration snoopers”.

General secretary Sally Hunt said: “UCU members are educators not border guards.”

It deplored “this pandering to anti-immigration racism” and committed the union to “non-compliance with all such policing and surveillance duties”.

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I’m tired of expenses

Not all MPs are greedy and newspapers point out some really trivial things and make them a big deal.

Amplify’d from www.birminghammail.net

CLARE Short today insisted “I am straight as a die” after she was accused of claiming thousands of pounds she was not entitled to from House of Commons expenses.

But she said: “This is not a scandal. It is a genuine mistake.

Details of the £8,000 over-payment emerged when her expenses claims were published by a national newspaper.

“I repaid the money because the fees office pointed out the error.”

Ms Short said she had always given the House of Commons fees office full details of her mortgage arrangements, and she believed they should have spotted the error sooner.

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Laos government may execute Briton

I believe the European and British governments should take every action possible to prevent any foreign government executing any citizen, but especially a citizen the European and British government’s responsible for.

Capital punishment is deplorable and especially so for non-capital crimes.

Amplify’d from news.bbc.co.uk

Pregnant Briton ‘faces execution’

A pregnant British woman faces death by firing squad if she is convicted of smuggling drugs at a trial in Laos, campaigners have said.

Legal charity Reprieve has called on the UK government to intervene with the Laotian authorities on her behalf.

The Foreign Office says it is “paying close attention to her welfare”.

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Labour in-bickering is getting silly

A Labour Party academic wants Brown to resign.

I think the public have been twisted against Brown - they didn’t moan about him in the boom years.

Labour Party needs a united front, in my opinion.

Amplify’d from news.bbc.co.uk
A call for Prime Minister Gordon Brown to resign has become the best supported petition on the Downing Street website.Read more at news.bbc.co.uk