Cripes

The Tories proposed a four-step asylum plan:

• Withdrawing from the 1951 United Nations Convention on refugees, which obliges countries to accept people being persecuted on the basis of need, not numbers
• Introduce laws to allow the immediate removal of asylum seekers whose claims were clearly unfounded because they came from safe countries or had destroyed documents
• Detain asylum seekers without documents so people whose identity was not known were not able to move freely around the UK - a worry for "national security"
• Stop considering asylum applications inside the UK and instead take people from United Nations refugee agency camps. Anyone applying for asylum would be taken to new centres close to their countries of origin

But this bit just says it all!

Conservative leader Michael Howard has used a full-page advertisement in the
Sunday Telegraph to trumpet plans for a limit on immigration and asylum.

But Refugee Council chief executive Maeve Sherlock branded the Tory plans
as "dangerous, ill thought-out and hugely irresponsible".
She asked: "Are we seriously going to tell someone fleeing torture at the hands of Mugabe's secret police, 'Sorry, we've filled our quota for this year. Come back next year'?"

More here

More whinging

I imagine all us charidee fundraisers would recognise this:

Employees doubt innovation claims

Ordinary members of staff in charities do not believe in the sector's
reputation for innovation, new research has found.
...
"All too often, innovation is a word that charities are merely
stringing on the end of a grant proposal," said Elisha Evans, project manager at
nfpSynergy.

The whole article's here