Couldn’t Organise A Piss Up In A Brewery

I mean really, is there nothing this group of incompetents touch that they cannot make worse.

Student visa numbers soar after new rules take effect

The number of students entering the UK from India and Bangladesh has risen sharply since a new visa system began, the BBC has learned.

The UK Border Agency had said it believed the total number of students was "roughly the same" as last year.

But a Freedom of Information request revealed the numbers entering from those countries, thought to be hotspots for bogus students, has tripled.

Still I’m sure these are all genuine students, going to attend reputable places of learning.

Officers said a significant number of those arriving on student visas had previously been denied entry to the UK, and they suspected that many had come here to work and not study.

One Heathrow-based whistleblower told the Donal MacIntyre programme that many so-called students could not speak English, and knew nothing about the courses they claimed to be studying.

And yet given the information told us by Andrew Neather earlier this month that Labour let in migrants 'to engineer multicultural UK'

Between June and August 2008 (before the new system for students came into force), the British High Commissions in Mumbai, New Delhi and Dhaka issued 6,771 student visas.

During the same period this year (under the new points-based immigration system), the three offices issued 19,950 visas.

Those of us wearing the tin-foil hats wonder if this is another example of Labours on-going scorched earth policy.

It is also interesting that this has now gone from the BBC front page, replaced by a story about the X-factor.

I wonder if any of the MSM will run with it.

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