The Government has responded on its new Number Ten website to the petition for locally employed Iraqis. It reads: Thank you for your e-petition requesting that Locally Engaged (LE) staff in Iraq should be offered asylum in the UK. In a written parliamentary Statement on 9 October 2007 , the Foreign Secretary acknowledged that LE [...]

Chris Bryant, Labour MP for the Rhondda, is running the London Marathon to raise funds for the Prostate Cancer Research Foundation, the people doing the ‘Give a Few Bob‘ campaign. You can sponsor him here. The PCRF is a fairly small charity that does specialist work on one of the cancers that kills a lot [...]

The government is continuing to fail to live up to its responsibilities to Iraqis who worked for the UK in Iraq and, now they are being hunted down as collaborators, need our help. I hand over to Dan Hardie to tell the latest chapter in this story: Iraqi Employees: Fine words, shabby deeds Do you [...]

Whether or not you approve of the Government’s recent actions on asylum seekers, I would contend if that we can approve right to remain for nineteen thousand, there can be no justification at the UK end for not allowing Iraqis employed by the UK in Iraq a chance of not being hunted down and killed [...]

Lynne Featherstone has tabled a new EDM on the situation around the Iraqi employees. It reads: That this House recognises the courage of Iraqis who have worked alongside British troops and diplomats in southern Iraq, often saving British lives; notes that many such Iraqis have been targeted for murder by Iraqi militias in Basra, and [...]

As many people will be aware, the Government has made only the barest of concessions towards helping Iraqis employed by British forces in Iraq who are being hunted down by death squads who view them as collaborators. Regardless of your opinion or lack thereof on the war in Iraq (for the record, I opposed it), [...]

I went last night to the meeting at Parliament in support of Iraqis employed by British forces in Iraq and their quest for asylum. Everyone who attended the meeting , I think all would agree, came away with three things; firstly, that David Miliband’s actions are a start but are nowhere near enough; secondly, that [...]

Two pieces of news on the Iraqi employees front. Firstly, the meeting has been moved to the Attlee Suite, Portcullis House. It will still take place at 1900 tomorrow, Tuesday 9th. Secondly, the Government has committed itself to supporting Iraqis who have worked for the British in Iraq for over a year; that is woefully [...]

Two important posts from Dan Hardie: Maintain the pressure I am not a doctor xD.

The Observer reports that the Government is only letting one out of every six Iraqis – those who have worked for Britain in Iraq for over a year – into the UK. That leaves an awful lot of people, including families of people who worked for Britain – stuck in Iraq facing torture and death. [...]