Any More For Any More ?

So immigration controls were only abandoned for 29,000 ECAA applicants per annum who were already in the country.

Oh yes - and for everyone else with an application over three months old.

Oh, we've just found out - and for the other ECAA applicants who weren't in the country. And for applicants from Bulgaria and Romania.

But the BBC are onside as ever. Were a minister in trouble with whistleblowers over Iraq, for example, we'd see headlines like "The government is under growing pressure over the legal position of the war on Iraq". You won't see the Katherine Gun or Clare Short revelations depicted as an alliance of malcontent public servants with an agenda-driven left wing press.

Yet that's exactly what we get with this story. Carolyn Quinn on the Today programme this morning, reviewing the papers "Not unpredictably, the Mail and Express lead on immigration'. The tone is that the only people bothered about immigration are a couple of 'right-wing' papers, and even the Tories aren't really bothered but will exploit the row for opportunistic reasons.

UPDATE - how much worse can it get without a head or two rolling ?