That says it all!

"The right to a family life is not the same as the right to a family life in the United Kingdom."
So said the Immigration Minister, Phil Woolas, refering to Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (BBC Radio 4 "Today", yesterday.
That's what I've been saying all along.
Mr. Woolas was talking about a convicted Congolese rapist who was planning to marry in order to avoid deportation. Mr. Woolas evaded the question: Why was it he wasn't immediately deported on being released from prison?
Now on that point the Home Office really does lack wisdom, as E.T. said (see previous blog). In other words, April Fools.