Will Scotland survive this?
In more respecatble days she would have resigned already, but you would think this has to be the last straw:
It is very interesting to note however that the Cabinet Office have come out fighting very quickly. The acid tongue of Liam Byrne is not one any politician would like to fight, even if you are the Attorney General. The illegal immigrant situation is dependent on an inquiry, it was bad yes and it is not over yet, but this new secondary scandal taps right into the public anti-expenses/greed rage.
Some might say there is a definite prima facie case to answer but lets see how Sunday/Monday plays out...
TB reckons she could be toast.
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Yahoo News reports that Borders Agency officers have broken down the door of the flat where Patricia's illegal worker lived, searched the premises and taken some documents away. There was no need for breaking and entering. If no-one was in, a single officer could have waited until someone returned. I detect the same pattern here as with the Damien Green raid. Put the frighteners on the cause of the Government's discomfort. Why has Patricia's door not been kicked in and her house searched yet?
Re: Anon.11.40
"If no-one was in, a single officer could have waited until someone returned."
I fear you are being a little naive if you think the average 'plod' would hang around just in case the illegal immigrant in question decided it would be a good idea to return home and hand herself in.
After outstaying her Student Visa by 5 years and working illegally, she is facing certain deportation, so if she has any sense she will have already disappeared into the Tongan community in London.
As TB has said, 'Baroness' Scotland may indeed have survived this issue, but the rip-off of her expenses and the curiously swift intervention of the Cabinet Office to contradict her assertion that the allowance was payable to 'all Peers' suggests she has little support within Government.
I shall be surprised if she lasts to the end of next week...
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