Nigel Farage is right to go after civil servants who let in sex offenders |
British civil servants have almost never faced real consequences for their failures. If Reform come to power, that might change. Nigel Farage’s party has announced yesterday that they will introduce a new criminal offence of ‘dishonestly determining an asylum claim’. They will use this law to prosecute civil servants who have knowingly put British women and girls in danger by granting asylum to foreign sex offenders. These prosecutions will be retrospective, targeting those who have already made such asylum grants. The new crime would carry a prison sentence of up to two years, and could also result in offenders’ pensions being forfeited.
This announcement follows revelations that asylum caseworkers are being put under pressure to approve more asylum claims with less scrutiny. Some have reportedly been told to ignore criminal charges. In one case, an asylum caseworker was apparently disciplined after refusing to approve an Afghan man’s application because he has been arrested repeatedly for indecently exposing himself in a children’s playground. (The Home Office said they ‘do not accept the characterisation of these concerns as presented.’) As Zia Yusuf, Reform’s Head of Policy said, ‘In........