Dale: "I want to be an MP to fight for people like this"

"Boris Johnson MP had a moment of clarity while exploring ancient white English culture while adrift in his supergrade coracle"

Boris Johnson has blogged this and Iain Dale has joined in here. The case is of a middle class white man in Henley who is from Zimbabwe having some problems getting any form of leave to remain or asylum.

Some of the comments on Dale's piece are choice. "Is it because I is white?" is a theme from quite a few, which Iain gainsayed quickly, but which other Tory visitors and linked bloggers seem to perpetuate as the very way of thinking which Dale is I am sure correctly denying in himself.

Although Towestrian has not posted on their blog since before Christmas offers this insight:

"I have a close relative who used to work in the immigration department of the Home Office. One of the reasons he left was because from the mid 90's the place became full of lefties who would bend over backwards to give whites of colonial descent a hard time in these type of cases."

Shortly before Christmas I too blogged on an immigration case. Read Santa Must Die HERE and google to find out more about that remarkable case. There have been no favours from the "Trots" at the Home Office. Whatever will be suggested by such unattributed and bizarre sources next?

This brilliant woman has even been visited by officials advising her to get on the next plane before they come for her and her children in the middle of the night. They claimed over and over again that they knew nothing about her new claim which had been allowed. But they left some of their papers behind. on the top of which was a crystal clear memorandum which explained that this family needed no harrassment and threats.

Good luck to Mark Coleman. There are many voluntary organisations and individuals in this country who are together fighting hundreds and thousands of cases for people of every creed and colour, from many dangerous countries or specific personal dangers. NO ONE should be sent back to Zimbabwe!

Making Mr Coleman into a cause celebre in the Daily Telegraph (more choice comments on the same piece from Boris) and elsewhere in this way is stirring up some very strange stuff from the righteous right in this country.

Having relatives that served in British wars is not now and hopefully never will be a criterion for being granted leave to remain. In my view the biggest system failure on asylum handling is the belittling of women's cases involving a real and completely justified fear of persecution and killing but recorded and treated as domestics.

In Chorlton, Manchester where I live our resident and very welcome asylum seekers are a pretty varied bunch. If Boris and Iain get bogged down in Henley I can provide some contacts.

There is I think a very long way to go in Mr Coleman's case. But not I wager onto a flight to Zimbabwe.