Wow, I Know I Feel Safer...

The claim:

In April 2008 the UK Border Agency was launched as a shadow agency of the Home Office. A year later, we reached full agency status. Agency status gives us and our people the freedom to operate and focus our resources within a clearly defined mandate from the Home Office. It provides us with:

* a sharper focus on delivery, better meeting the public's expectations in maintaining secure borders, finding and removing illegal immigrants and tackling those who facilitate them coming here

The reality:

An illegal immigrant is on the run after smuggling himself into Britain underneath a coach full of Border Agency officers returning from France.

*sigh*

Still, the coach driver will be in a bit of trouble, won't he? Just like all those lorry drivers who...

Oh:

A political row has now erupted because no action will be taken against the coach driver hired by the Border Agency - unlike hundreds of other lorry drivers who have been prosecuted for unwittingly allowing an illegal immigrant into Britain.

Is there a better indication anywhere else of the utter contempt in which the government and its agents hold the average working person than this?