Re: Aargh!

In article <6LyO4XOETLDDFw4v@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Iain Archer <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Iain Archer wrote on umra on Wed, 24 Aug 2005:
> >"The criteria used to exclude or deport individuals on the basis that
> >they are not conducive to the public good are implemented through
> >policy, and the Home Secretary may vary that criteria ...".
> >
> >http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/ind/en/home/news/press_releases/tacklin
> >g_terrorism.html
> >
> >When even the Home Office mangles English, it's time to leave ...
>
> Even more to the point, where did Charles Clarke actually publish
> this list?

The original consultation is at
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/docs4/deportation.pdf.

The revised list is in the press release published by the Government
News Network.

> Everywhere I've looked so far, even the Home Office and
> IND sites and the BBC, simply parrots a Press Release (from which the
> above comes), without any reference to the original material or its
> location. Nor does the press release even claim to be a complete
> regurgitation of whatever it was the Home Secretary has actually
> published.

"The list of unacceptable behaviours is indicative rather than
exhaustive", as the press release says. The list in the press release
is the full list - the press release says "including" and then
gives the list. (Compare it with the original list on which the
government consulted)

> I'm not very keen on government by press release.

Press releases do not themselves confer legal powers. The Secretary
of State already has the legal power to exclude people from the UK
on grounds that their presence is not conducive to the public good,
and it is up to the discretion of the Secretary of State as to when
he uses that power. What is being announced here is a change in
the general policy. I don't see what the problem is here: the Secretary
of State could change this policy without announcing it, if he
wanted to.

The policy is subject to judicial review, incidentally.

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