It is an uphill struggle trying to keep the Partnership government looking good.This is a democracy and with both main parties competing for electoral supremacy there is an overwhelming need to jealously guard each word spoken and each ministerial move.
How does the Prime Minister sharing out Christmas gifts to the nation's children compare with her approving the deportation of 15 people (not 50, not 150) at great expense to taxpayers? Why charter a plane when for the past few days the price of oil keeps falling?Why deport illegals to only one country which just happens to be in Africa? Why not wait until a fair number of other illegals from other countries have been processed so that this Government does not have to be condemned as racist?
If there are over 100,000 illegals, how incompetent does this Government make itself look that not even 500 people are being readied for deportation? The flight out to Ghana looks more like an illegal abduction rather than legal deportation.At this Christmas time, why not allow the families to say goodbye? Fifteen families should have been reunited if only for 15 minutes.
Will there be extra presents for the distraught children? Where is the political profit in this nonsensical and expensive flight?The Government did not save enough money to cover the amount of votes lost.
Lynette Joseph
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