Immigration Minister Mark Harper quits over cleaner's visa

[Terpe]

You really couldn't make it up

It's a disgrace........
and yes joe, by rights and in fairness he should be slapped a £10k fine unless he can prove he made the appropriate checks. Which he obviously didn't

What a pratt!

[grahamw48]

You really couldn't make it up

It's a disgrace........
and yes joe, by rights and in fairness he should be slapped a £10k fine unless he can prove he made the appropriate checks. Which he obviously didn't

What a pratt

You said it for me Peter, plus, these situations could be avoided if (with all all due respect to our Filipina board members) such people didn't seek to employ 'cheap labour', rather than employing a local at a sensible rate of pay...given that the former Minister was hardly on the breadline.

[johncar54]

You said it for me Peter, plus, these situations could be avoided if (with all all due respect to our Filipina board members) such people didn't seek to employ 'cheap labour', rather than employing a local at a sensible rate of pay...given that the former Minister was hardly on the breadline.

Graham he did not pay the cleaner, the taxpayer did. So it did not happen because he wanted to employ 'cheap labour.'

[joebloggs]

Graham he did not pay the cleaner, the taxpayer did. So it did not happened because he wanted to employ 'cheap labour.'

Not so sure.

has resigned after learning that his private cleaner for seven years did not have permission to work in the UK.

"In retrospect, I should have checked more thoroughly," he conceded to Cameron. After being unable to locate some of the cleaner's documentation,

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2...nister-resigns

exchange of letters between Harper and David Cameron:
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeeh...-over-cleaner/

[johncar54]

Joe, I was quoting what (I am sure) I heard on the BBC or Sky News this morning. They/I might be wrong.

But the point I was initially making was that it should not be for the employer to ensure the law is being respected and be legally liable if it is not.

I this case. I really do not believe that a Government Minster (whom we pay to take care of the country's bigger problems) should have to be concerned with a part time cleaner.

[Iani]

You really couldn't make it up

What a pratt

Exactly! Words fail me, how the blazes can HE amongst anyone get this wrong? It's like the chief of police not realising he'd need a warrant to enter a property, or a telephone engineer not knowing what all those funny wires on top of wooden poles are for

[johncar54]

Iani, Sorry not the same as a Police Chief etc, you are referring to their jobs. It is not their job (or should not be) that an employer/landlord must enforce the laws on immigration. Isn't that what the Border Agency is for ?