Scotland campaigns for the Conservatives

Well, not really, but the Conservatives can hardly believe their luck in the past week. Baroness Scotland breaks the law and then dismisses the matter as a trivial oversight. Now put aside the fact that the law she introduced, to harry employers unlucky enough to hire one of the many hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants that this government encouraged, that many employers might be intimidated by threats of racial discrimination if they turned away many of these applicants, she has undoubtedly confirmed that there is one law for us and another for them. Furthermore she cheerily announced that her action was very much akin to overlooking payment of the congestion charge. For those of us who don't drive in London this has no meaning, but I suppose she means it's the equivalent of overlooking a parking fine.
But the Gordon Brown yesterday, interviewed on Five Live suggested that the worthy Baroness was misled. That certainly puts a different complexion on matters. This Tongan immigrant is obviously going around the country with forged documents, which means that the good Baroness should not have merely dismissed her but called the police to clap her in irons. So she is not only neglecting to apply the law to her own circumstances she is also failing to implement the law when she is a witness to wrongdoing in others.
Along with most of the population, I don't want this poor Tongan immigrant to be hounded to pay for the high crimes of the high and mighty. She probably entered the country knowing that our borders are open and the authorities would turn a blind eye. She probably applied for an NI number and was given it without questions asked. She is probably honest and hard working and if the immigration laws in this country re so loosely applied why should she be concerned? Indeed.
Once again our better, the so-called "Great and Good" are trying to eat their cake and keep it. Is the Labour Party now the Patrician Party, or should that be the Patricia Party.

Scotland is free!

Apparently Baroness Scotland did not hire an illegal immigrant; she merely forgot to make a photocopy of the woman's papers and for this "administrative error" she has been fined a whopping £5.000, which of course she can afford to pay, having squirreled away £170,000 in dubious expense claims.
The spinners are at it again! The original crime was to hire an illegal immigrant, a practice that Baroness Scotland herself deplored and tabled legislation to punish the practice, but it now appears that this was not a problem. The real crime was the mistake of failing to take and keep photocopies of the immigrant's documents.
What is it about Gordon Brown that he fails to understand the situation. Baroness Scotland may well be  marvellous person with many good qualities, but she is Attorney General. She administers the law and must be seen to respect it. If she fiddles the law to suit her own personal circumstances she must go. And that't that!
Tony Blair sacked Mandleson the first time around because he had made a mis-statement on his mortgage application. It was not a particularly big deal and no doubt Mandleson, or one of his backers, was good for the money. But Blair made him go because of the propriety of it. Why can't Brown understand this?