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The Sun has an exclusive story:

Lie back and think of England

By ANTHONY FRANCE
and PAUL THOMPSON

A SEX for passports racket at Britain’s busiest immigration centre is exposed today by The Sun.

Corrupt officials bed attractive girls desperate to avoid being kicked out of the country in return for granting them visas.

Meanwhile “ugly” migrants risk having their applications rejected — and their pictures pinned on a wall for staff to laugh at.

The scandal at Lunar House in Croydon, South London — which also processes applications by asylum seekers — was last night exposed by a whistleblower who quit in disgust.

Former administration officer Anthony Pamnani told how one colleague joked after bedding a Turkish girl: “I gave her more than a visa extension, if you know what I mean.”

Anthony, 23, who worked at Lunar House for four years, regularly saw colleagues dish out their phone numbers to sexy immigrants.

He said: “One girl came in and told us an admin officer had visited her flat and they slept together. She got indefinite leave to stay.

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Anthony said he finally quit after bosses told staff to restrict migrants from India and let in more from Eastern Europe.

He said: “I lost what remaining respect I had for the job.”

Last night Home Office Minister Tony McNulty launched an urgent probe. He said: “These are serious allegations. Clearly I will not condone this type of behaviour.”

Will Tony McNulty, the Minister of State for immigration and citizenship at the Home Office, be honourable enough to resign if the allegations in The Sun are proven ?

Given the previous incompetence in the Immigration and Nationality Directorate, and the warnings by whistleblower staff which were ignored or supressed, which lead to the resignation of Beverly Hughes, one would have expected her sucessors Des Browne and now Tony McNulty to have got a grip on the bureaucracy.

The BBC TV "fly on the all" documentary last year showing abuses in the privatised immigration detention centres and transportation companies, also involved accusations of sexual favours being demanded by thjose in positions of power.

The Sunday Times has another story based on the supposed inside knowledge of a political biographer, this time regarding the disgraced ex-Home Secretary David Blunkett, who was controversially re-appointed to the Cabinet.

Blunkett set for comeback under Brown

The Sunday Times
September 04, 2005

David Cracknell, Political Editor

DAVID BLUNKETT has put aside his differences with Gordon Brown and can expect a senior cabinet post if the chancellor becomes the next prime minister, according to his biographer.

Blunkett’s preferred job would be as chancellor, a post to which he has aspired under Tony Blair. He has no appetite for the position of foreign secretary because of the pressure of travelling."

Why are NuLabour Cabinet Ministers who had to resign in disgrace, like David Blunkett and Beverly Hughes allowed tax free "redundancy" payments ?

The Independent has a report

The NuLabour spin machine is spinning the line to the uncritical media (e.g. The Guardian and BBC) that Beverly Hughes somehow "unwittingly" mislead Parliament over the Romanian and Bulgarian visa scandal which led to her resignation from the Home Office in disgrace.

The incompetence of both Beverly Hughes and her boss David Blunkett in not managing the Immigration and Nationality Directorate of the Home Office, and the lack of proper internal management for which they were directly responsible, can be seen from the account by the whistleblower Steve Moxon in his book The Great Immigration Scandal. The "shoot the messenger" treatment of the whistleblower Steve Moxon and of the British Consul in Bucharest James Cameron by the NuLabour Ministers and the Civil Service is also
a disgrace.

The full post election Cabinet has now been announced, and there are some controversial appointments at the Junior Minister level:

Department for Education and Skills
Minister of State (Children)
The Rt Hon Beverly Hughes MP for Stretford and Urmston is the disgraced ex-Home Office Minister who had to resign over the immigration scandal involving Romanian and Bulgarian visas exposed by whistleleblowers Steve Moxon and James Cameron.

Beverly Hughes takes over from The Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MBE MP for Barking, whose disregard for Data Protection and Privacy worries about her controversial "Big Nanny Database" Children Act does not bode well for future policy in her new postition as Minister of State (Work) under the authoratarian technological illiterate David Blunkett at the Department for Work and Pensions.

Department for Education and Skills
Parliamentary Secretary
Lord Adonis

Andrew Adonis was, until today, simply a NuLabour political commissar, with the ear of the Prime Minister's office, and not even a Member of Parliament, which is why he has been ennobled so that he can serve as a Junior Minister. he was responsible for dreaming up amd meddling with the implementation of the City Acadamies, which waste vast sums of public money. handed over to private companies, who are also allowed to brainwash the children with their own products and meddle with the curriculum to include rubbish like Creationism, and who can decide to sell off assets like buildings or playing firlds for their own profit.

What right has he to be literally now lording it over Education policy ?

Ministry of Defence
Parliamentary Secretary
Lord Drayson (unpaid)

Pual Drayson, a businessman, whose ennoblement was already controversial due to his apparent donations of over £500,000 to the NuLabour party, and whose company PowderJect managed to secure a £32 million Government contract for smallpox vaccine, awarded without it being put out to competitive tender. Allegedly this was because PowderJect had managed to contractually sew up the capacity of the actual pharmceutical company producing the vaccine with an ironclad contract.

Why has this man appeared as a Junior Ministry of Defence Minister ?

Tony McNulty MP for Harrow East is now Minister of State at the Home Office, presumably replacing Des Browne, in charge of Citizenship and Immigration (who in turn had replaced the disgraced Beverely Hughes). Will he really be spearheading the re-introduction of the controversial Identity Cards Bill ?