Olive Mukarugziwa

This is in response to this.

Dear Hazel Blears,
This will be an open letter.
As a father and grandfather I am distressed at your continuing intention to deport Olive Mukarugwiza and her three children, Olive, Sandra and Yvan.
I can quite understand that at one time the New Labour Government wanted to confirm with the tabloid press its credentials as pitiless, authoritarian and reactionary. This could be achieved by not only removing thousands of asylum seekers widely perceived as fraudulent, but in demonstrating a "firm but fair" policy of removing deserving, vulnerable and ultimately, as the result of your actions, pitiful cases. By, as it were, kicking in the teeth the legally powerless, you could show how tough you were to the racist bullies of the gutter press. In fact, let's be honest, you could get much more electoral credibility with what you may hopefully call the Far or even Extreme Centre by persecuting one family of exemplary human beings than you could with the (far more difficult) business of deporting, say, a thousand people-trafficking knuckledustered pimps.
Olive Mukarugwiza’s seems to be just such a case of exemplarary citizenship. Her children are all doing well in their education, and indeed her eldest daughter Sandra is just about to take her A levels. I can see that in the past you could have made huge capital by bundling them on a plane with their mouths taped, out-Howarding Howard, out-Widdecombing Widdecombe.
But, believe me, that battle is long won. Nobody in their right mind could now doubt New Labour’s commitment to authoritarian administrative brutality. The Mail, the Sun, the Express, can be proud of you. The fact that they are not is more down to their blind bigotry than to any objective situation.
You have nothing to lose. Under the circumstances, I ask you, as someone who I’m sure still has beneath the New Labour veneer, much humanitarian compassion, to allow Olive and her family to remain in this country.
Yours sincerely,