Home Office reveals 16 names on banned traveller list
May 6, 2009
www.homeoffice.gov.uk
Extremists, a right-wing American radio “shock jock”, hate preachers and homophobics are among the names of people being “named and shamed” by the Home Office on the list of those banned from entering Britain.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith commented that she decided to make the names of 16 people on the list public so that the world could see the type of behaviour that Britain does not tolerate.
“Coming to this country is a privilege. If you can’t live by the rules that we live by, the standards and the values that we live by, we should exclude you from this country and, what’s more, now we will make public those people that we have excluded,” said the Home Secretary.
Smith added: “We are publishing the names of 16 of those that we have excluded since October. We are telling people who they are and why it is we don’t want them in this country.”
She noted that the number of people who were banned from entering Britain has increased since October of last year from approximately two per month, on average, to five per month.
Over the past four years, a total of 101 persons have been banned from entry, based on new governmental powers that were introduced after the 7 July 2005 bombings.
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