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On March 8th. 2004 I was suspended on full pay from my job as a Home Office immigration caseworker having blown the whistle on widespread abuse and cover-up of the government's policy of 'Managed Migration'. My revelations in the Sunday Times contributed to the resignation of immigration minister Beverley Hughes. On Monday July 26 I was dismissed for the crime of "embarrassing ministers", leading to immediate calls in the Sunday Times and Daily Mail for my re-instatement. I am currently preparing my Employment Tribunal case against the Home Office.
Full details of these events appear in my book The Great Immigration Scandal.
The treatment of me is part of a standard pattern. Both James Cameron (the other immigration whistle-blower) and Craig Murray (the Foreign Office whistle-blower) were subjected to entirely trumped-up accusations of issuing visas in exchange for sex, and David Kelly (the weapons expert) was hounded to his suicide (or perhaps more plausibly, his killing). No doubt John Morrison (the intelligence analyst) would have had some dirty tricks to contend with had he not been immediately sacked.
So bankrupt is the Government’s immigration policy and so non-existent is its implementation, that the Government’s only defence is to ‘play the man instead of the ball’. There is no freedom of speech whatsoever in this country on certain subjects; immigration in particular. The Independent newspaper has been a willing conduit of Government complete untruths on two occasions in my own case. One of the paper’s journalists (Boyd Tonkin) is currently being investigated by the PCC for gross abuse of journalistic privilege for trying to persuade the British Academy to cancel my book launch instead of doing his job of book reviewing (he does not even work in news). The paper previously had been obliged to print a retraction of the nonsense it had printed back in early March (again including untruths written by someone not even working in news).
Post-Macpherson (the report into the Stephen Lawrence murder), racism or inciting racism is anything the Government (or anyone else) deems it to be -- literally. So anyone writing about this subject is open to unlimited abuse. The media, the BBC especially, actively suppresses debate. How can politics be conducted in the absence of any standard whatsoever regarding representation of opinion? There is no limit on misquotation and quoting wildly out of context.
When are journalists in Britain going to properly stand up to this? When will a political party do likewise?
I am taking the Government to an Employment Tribunal to sort out how the Public Interest Disclosure Act relates to civil service whistle-blowers, and I will be citing Government dirty tricks of entirely baseless character assassination as part of the ‘detriment’ I suffered.
For a proper review, see Frank Field in the Sunday Times (17 October 2004). According to Field, a senior Labour MP and ex-minister, the book is a:
"slow-burn Molotov cocktail on immigration . . . the most serious indictment yet published. His revelations in The Sunday Times brought down a minister and confirmed voters’ belief that the government’s managed migration policy is anything but that."As many traditional Labour supporters "hold social views well to the right of the Conservative party" they are contemptuous of the immigration policy of the New Labour elite. Indeed, my revelations could even foil Labour's ambitions at the next election:
"A basic shift of allegiance could be under way, with Labour’s immigration policy the catalyst. At the last election, I found the Tories won the campaign (on tax cuts and asylum) but voters concluded they were unelectable. Labour might not be so lucky next time."Full review
