Jacqui Smith is a devious fat bitch

From yesterday's FT:

"The [Security Industry Authority] establishes that applicants are "fit and proper" before giving them a licence, a process that involves establishing their identity and carrying out criminality checks.

"But Ms Smith said there was no requirement to check the nationality of the applicants - that was the legal duty of the employers. Her aides said later they expected "fairly hefty fines" to be levied against those who gave jobs to illegal migrants".

Dude, WTF?

1. If the SIA doesn't know what country somebody is from, how can they check whether he (or she) has a criminal record in that country?

2. Don't forget that some illegal immigrants ended up working at e.g. Home Office*, so it obviously ain't that easy to check people's nationality and so on.

3. But there'll be 'fairly hefty fines' on the private sector anyway.

"Don't do as we do, do as we say", is the message as ever.

* Yes, I know that these were technically agency workers.