A fresh advertising drive, run by Britain’s Home Office, has led to a public difference between higher ranking ministers in the nation’s Coalition administration. The target of the operation–which continued for a week before folding-up recently, this year–was meant to convince the prohibited guests to leave, and go back.
Reportedly, the Business Secretary proclaimed that the advertisements appeared to have been tailored to generate a sense of anxiety in the British people, adding the Liberal Democrat legislators had not been taken into confidence. He further said that the movement was dim-witted and distasteful even as it would be stopped. He continued that though the nation did have a minor issue with unlawful foreign movement, the same ought to be dealt with in a proper manner.
Drive working: UK premier
However, the incumbent Home Secretary & the Premier have come to the defence of the operation. Recently, the PM’s spokesman reportedly informed the media that the Home Office was 100% pleased with the results, and was sure that the movement was bearing fruits. He though failed to furnish any numbers to back his assertions.
Since 2010, the incumbent Coalition administration has been ruling Britain; post no political party could emerge victorious with an overall majority at the hustings. While the Conservative Party are in majority, the Liberal Democrats are in minority. Of late, there many open differences between the two coalition associates have hogged limelight. In this connection, some political observers claim that the same is by agreement even while it’s tailored to enable them to distinguish themselves, prior to the coming polls to be held during 2015.
Leave, lest you are arrested!
The controversial advertising drive was run across 6 boroughs of the British capital, London. As per reports, mobile advertising hoardings were put on vans only to be driven via the boroughs’ streets. The advertisements asked the so-called banned aliens to go home or face arrest even as these carried a number for them to text and gain free counsel on departing from the nation.
The advertisements drew much criticism with a prominent leader alleging he was rather appalled that the concerned authorities had picked-up his borough, adding the same would only drive unlawful aliens underground. Several people viewed the movement as a political trick targeted at convincing the Conservative voters–who could be thinking of casting votes in favor of British Independence Party–that the administration was making concrete efforts to control unauthorized immigration.
Campaign molded to divert
In a related development, a leading political observer has claimed that the drive could have been duly devised to divert attention from a report made available by a committee of the parliamentarians which alleges that the administration’s immigration figures are so undependable that it’s unfeasible to trust its claims of cutting-down the overall immigration levels.
