Labour's shadow Home Secretary, has condemned 'The authoritarian state the Tories are creating, with the renewal of the Prevention of Terrorism Act, Tebbit's anti-union Bill and the new Police Bill.' But Hattersley seems content to restrict his displeasure with the Tories to speeches. On action he is a little short. against the attempt to deport an Asian social worker Muhammed get cracking in fighting the 'authoritarian state'. Idrish. Here surely was a chance for the Birmingham Sparkbrook MP to However, Hattersley told us: 'I cannot do anything about Muhammed Idrish yet, but when a Labour government is returned to power, I would look on his case sympathetically, if I am at the Home Office.
He also explained: "I do not like taking up cases outside my own constituency. People should visit their own MP.
Hattersley has been less than energetic in relation to the West Midlands police. This force has built up quite a reputation. One of their victims in Coventry is hanging on to his life through a support machine in a Coventry hospital.
They have twice busted into the homes of older people and knocked around their innocent victims. Their racism is renowned in the black comBut for Roy Hattersley: Sir Philip Knight's men are the best run force in the country, self-regulation for them is OK by me. The need for police is a left-wing exaggeration...' On immigration Hattersley makes no concessions to humanity or socialism. He says: 'The ethnic groups realise that an open-door policy would only create more problems for them ..
But black people don't need to worry. They have a guardian, although he is self-appointed. He modestly explains: "That I and the local councillors are the only people who can look after the community's interests effectively.'