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I am a Conservative and a Conservative Councillor, but with me it is not a case of "my party right or wrong", if I believe something is wrong, I'll say so.
I've just read this on-line:
Mr Clark was suspended from his £135,000-a-year job last week. He faced disciplinary action and Mrs May has suggested he could be charged with criminal offences. Last night, as he resigned, he accused her of making his position "untenable" by her claims about his actions.
"Those statements are wrong and were made without the benefit of hearing my response to formal allegations," he said.
"With the Home Secretary announcing and repeating her view that I am at fault, I cannot see how any process conducted by the Home Office or under its auspices, can be fair and balanced."
In a statement, Mr Clark insisted that he had full authority for all the actions he had taken.
"The Home Secretary suggests that I added additional measures, improperly, to the trial of our risk-based controls. I did not. Those measures have been in place since 2008-09," he said.
"The Home Secretary also implies that I relaxed the controls in favour of queue management. I did not. Despite pressure to reduce queues, including from ministers, I can never be accused of compromising security for convenience."
This summer regularly saw queues of three hours and more at Heathrow, during which time "I never once contemplated cutting our essential controls to ease the flow," Mr Clark said.
He was summoned yesterday to give evidence to a parliamentary inquiry into the immigration row, giving him a public platform to challenge Mrs May's version of events.
He promised to co-operate "fully" with the home affairs committee".
There is talk of a pilot scheme relaxing entry from EU Nationals (I don't believe there should have been any relaxing, as there are thousands and thousands of criminals in and around Europe perfectly capable of falsifying and creating counterfeit passports).
There is now talk of a scheme being in place since 2008/9 (which Sarah spoke of above in post number 58), which would have meant that Labour were letting in unknown thousands and thousands of people, some of whom could quite easily have been terrorists.
There hasn't been an admittance from Labour yet that they were indeed operating such a scheme.
If all of this is just to cut the lengthening queues, because of cutting costs, then it is an absolute disgrace whoever is/was responsible - employ more staff; keep Britain safe.
Doesn't the Government - any Government, have a duty of care to its citizens ?
Roger