The UK is paying a massive price for being so wishy-washy where asylum seekers are concerned. Legal aid is being paid to these refugees for their appeals on failed applications, to the tune of £204million.

As if that's not bad enough, the radical Muslim cleric, Abu Hamza al-Masri (known not-so-affectionately as Captain Hook), is going to get legal aid for his deportation hearing.

The cost of lawyers for the former imam of London's Finsbury Park Mosque, who is appealing against deportation, could run into tens of thousands of pounds.

Home Secretary David Blunkett withdrew Mr Abu Hamza's British citizenship in April 2003 under the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002.

The act allows British nationality to be removed from people with dual citizenship who are believed to have acted against the vital interests of the UK.

I appreciate how the UK has this power to remove citizenship from traitors and terrorists (something the US would be happy to have right now, I'm sure), but it's of little value if we not only can't seem to get these people out of the country, but we have to pay for their fight to stay!

The liberal left has gone to such extremes trying to protect criminal's human rights, that the law-abiding, tax-paying citizens (and legal, law-abiding, tax-paying immigrants like myself) now have no rights at all. Perhaps if I was a terrorist or a criminal I would have some say about what the government can and should do, but my right to vote is useless.