20-05-2006, 10:43 AM
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It is no longer illegal to have a fake passport.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/m.../19/do1901.xml
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In most weeks, the news that the Home Office had accidentally repealed an extremely important law would have caused quite a stir. Yesterday, however, the fact that it may now be perfectly legal to carry a forged passport, because of yet another blunder by this most chaotic department of state, made only a short item on page six of my edition of The Daily Telegraph.
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Nobody at the Home Office seems to have spotted that the Act charged ahead with scrapping old laws, without bothering to put any new ones in their place.
Because of all the confusion, a court case involving two men who are said to have been caught with forged passports has already had to be adjourned.
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As Damian Green, the shadow immigration minister, said: "A criminal who has obtained [somebody else's] genuine passport could well use it to obtain a genuine ID card under a fraudulent identity."
On Wednesday, we learnt that no checks are made on the immigration status of applicants for National Insurance numbers - the first step on the way to a state pension and all the other benefits funded by British taxpayers.
All you have to do is pitch up at the local Jobcentre and say: "Hi! My name's Osama bin Laden. I've just flown in from Pakistan [or Afghanistan, or Sudan, or Switzerland, as the case may be]. Give me an NI number." You don't even have to say "please".
The clerk behind the desk will stifle a bureaucratic yawn and hand over the necessary documents. I have heard it said that there are now more NI numbers than there are people officially resident in the United Kingdom.
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Not much more that can be asdded here really, just about sums the government up nicely. :roll:
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