As I remarked last week, the new Minister for Justice, Jim O’Callaghan, – who has stated he will tackle the level of illegal immigration, both at source by heightened checks on the border and through deportations – is up against a legal system that is sustained by what appears to the casual observer to be a sympathetic legal establishment which presides over a cumbersome and exceeding slow system of appeals.
I likened this to the Labour of Sisyphus who as devotees of the Greek classics will know was condemned by the gods to spend eternity in the underworld rolling a large boulder to the top of a hill in Tartarus only to see it escape him and trundle back to where he started, and where he would have to start once more. For ever.
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