Asylum absurdity an open goal for Farage

THE FARCE that is the Home Office's processing of asylum claims and deportations has been revealed this week in all its stark incompetence.

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Ask yourself this: can there be another nation on the planet where despite being a convicted criminal - you can successfully appeal against being deported because your son likes chicken nuggets, and will only eat them if they're made in the UK?

Or dodge being sent back to Grenada after overstaying a visa because the Caribbean would be too hot for your new Latvian husband? Or be granted the right to settle in this country having applied through a scheme specifically designed to help refugees from Ukraine, even though you and your family of six have actually come from Gaza? It was way back in 2006 that Labour's then Home Secretary John Reid famously declared his department "not fit for purpose". Clearly little has changed in the 19 years since.