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Oh, the Delicious Irony… #2 – Who should know better not to hire an illegal immigrant?

Oct 07

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I understand I’m rather late on posting the news, but this just had to go in my delicious irony series.

Turns out that about 3 weeks ago, the head of the UK’s legal system, Baroness Scotland, was under investigation that she had hired an illegal immigrant to be her housekeeper. Ok, that’s pretty ironic right… she’s the Attorney General for the UK, and she’s been fined £5,000 for breaking the law… not a very good role model, eh?

Well, this is where it gets interesting. Turns out she was fined for breaking the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006, which… wait for it… she helped impose herself into the House Of Lords when she was a Home Office Minister.

So you have a job, just so happens your job is to impose new laws, you help impose one particular new law, she suddenly becomes the head of the legal system, she then breaks that law, gets fined for it, and then denies any wrong doing, and then rejects calls to resign.

Bollocks to that.

Read more on this story: BBC News, Telegraph, Daily Mail, Guardian.