"Home Secretary accused of "bordering on fascism"

     In the Independent (Tuesday 3rd December 2002), Simon Carr the sketch writer reacts angrily to the Home Secretary's statement to the House yesterday on the closure of Sangatte. Commenting on the debate, Carr writes,

"David Blunkett's legislative history has proposed or achieved the abolition of jury trials. The right of officials to view private internet histories. Asylum courts that hear appeals brought against their own judgments.

If you want to talk about bordering on fascism, that's the Sudetenland in 1938."

  As NCADC was heavily criticised in the past for publishing an article by Steve Cohen "Secure Removal Centres - Safe Votes" that reached a similar conclusion, we will refrain from offering a comment on this article,

The full text of Simon Carr's article:

The Sketch: Home Secretary shows us his qualities: he's flat, monotonous and thick
By Simon Carr, The Independent, 03 December 2002

Steve Cohen's article: Secure Removal Centres - Safe Votes.doc

David Blunkett's speech in the House of Commons, on which Simon Carr writes:
I wish to make a statement on illegal immigration from northern France.doc