Afghan translators deserve to live in the UK says Virginia Blackburn
OVER the past 15 years Britain has been letting the world and his wife into this country, including convicted criminals who offend again, yet there are two people we appear determined to keep out.
They are known as Niz and Masood and could scarcely be better candidates for our protection because they are Afghan translators who worked with the British Armed Forces when interrogating the Taliban. Their lives are under threat with Afghan authorities confirming that they are on Taliban hit lists and yet the UK is not allowing them to relocate here.
Of the 600 translators who worked for us only one has been allowed in. Unbelievably a Taliban fighter has been given refuge here because of his “human rights ”.
For pity’s sake, why?
Why are we abandoning Niz and Masood to their fate, given what they have done for us?
It makes no sense either morally or practically.
For a start we have a duty of care towards people who put themselves in danger on our behalf.
And second this isn’t exactly an advertisement to help our Armed Forces abroad, is it? In future when we require the services of locals to help us in a war zone is it not conceivable that they will look at the way we treated Niz and Masood and tell us to shove off ?
I, like millions of others, wish we could pull the plug on mass immigration this very minute – it is extremely damaging to our national fabric.
But there are some people who have the right to our protection and it is downright wicked that they should be denied it.
We live in a moral universe that has gone mad.
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Twitter trolls
WE SHOULDN’T be surprised any more about the depths to which some people sink on social media but the news that Rio Ferdinand is being trolled about the death of his wife is unbelievable.
The couple had children.
Vile doesn’t begin to sum it up.
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Fairy tales stop after marriage
GORGEOUS pouting Amal Clooney has been spotted out again this week doing what she does best: namely being gorgeous and pouting.
She is always described as an international human rights lawyer but how on earth does she have the time to do any work?
For all that she has the movie star looks and the movie star husband it seems a slightly pointless existence.
This is why fairy stories stop at the bit when the couple get married.
What comes next does not always gladden the heart.
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The sad surrogacy battle
PITY the poor children born into the brave new world we have created.
Surrogate parents can provide a service to people who have problems having children of their own but when you start using them to create children to order you enter a moral minefi eld.
A case has come to light involving a gay couple and a “duplicitous and manipulative” mother (the court’s words) who is said to have tricked them into a surrogacy arrangement so that she could become pregnant.
After giving birth she refused to give up the child and has just been ordered to do so by the courts.
There are all sorts of other details in this sad story, including that the mother seems to have made claims about the men that were untrue – but what about the child? The baby is 15 months old, has been with her mother 24 hours a day and is now to be separated from the only parent she has ever properly known.
Can that really be what is best for the poor little girl?
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Sturgeon and Red Ed
FOR sheer unmitigated arrogance you can’t beat that smug, nasty Nicola Sturgeon boasting that she will sit down with that student Marxist Ed Miliband to wrest power from the Tories on Friday.
Apparently 70 per cent of the English don’t want the SNP to have any power over us. Have the other 30 per cent gone mad?