Well what a surprise... Yet more bluff from the most despicable and incompetent government since WW2!

Phillip Anderton, Poole, England

This is compounded by the fact that the socialists have given a stealth amnesty to 250,000 illegal immigrants. How many will be in England all 250,000 is my guess as the Scottish Raj is now piecemeal destroying the English heritage and culture.

It makes you want to vote BNP

Richard K, Nottingham,

Well there's a surprise. I suppose every one of them will vote Labour. We must be the laughing stock of the world. It is time we had a proper government who wil act in the interests of the British people. The bunch of clowns we have at the moment are just too much to bear.

Bob, Cowes, UK

Labour has no interest in controlling anything to do with foreigners, criminal or not.

Judy , Liverpool, england

One solution would be to stop voting in wet liberal Governments, populated with human rights lawyers and their wives or husbands who all seem to have (or have had) jobs at the BBC.

Sedgwick morrison , London,

Substitue the word "will" or "intent" for "interest" and the truth starts to be revealed.

Edwin, Bucharest,

Recent figures show that it costs an average of £35,000 per year to house prisoners, this equates to £385 million per year!

Why should tax payers foot the bill?

Our problem is that we do everything by the book, we should be more like the Italians who have decided to start deporting Romanians after suffering an explosion in crimes such as Murder, rape and muggings but you can't deport Romanians because they are from an EU member state right?

Wrong, Italians are proud of their country and value their quality of life far too much to be dictated by EU bureaucrats or ambulance chasing Lawyers, unlike here in the UK.

We should start deporting foreign criminals, let the EU fine us if they want to, will it amount to more than the £385 million per annum that we spend on these people right now? highly unlikely.

I applaud the Italians for taking the stand that they have, unlike our own spineless government.

Graham Wharton, St. Albans, uk

Who is running the country? The government says we will do this, the agency says that this difficult and so we have no interest in doing it..
If this was a company managament, the company would fail or they would hire people who could and would carry out the company policy.
It is really quite simple if you have effective management.

Colin Macpherson, Gramat, France

Rather than 'deporting' them, we appear to be 'Importing' them, i.e. those alleged terrorists who should have their british passport revoked.

What on earth is wrong with this government?

Margaret Halliday, UK,

Politicians promises are actually becoming more reliable then the British weather forecast - they really are always false!

The joke used to be that this is the only country where the weather men tell more lies than the politicians. The politicians should realise that that statement is a joke, not a challenge!

KR, Stockport,

Its another disgraceful example of how soft this country is on criminals. These foreign criminals should all be instantly deported and not given a penny. And it should apply to all foreign nationals whether they are EU or non EU. They should all be treated with equal toughness. Its a scandal if citizens from other EU countries cant be subjected to the same checks and controls.

Vivek, London,

Don't understand this country...
I am a foreigner, moved here 7 years ago from across the channel, have been working since, paying taxes, never asked for jobseeker allowance, I wish this country would look after the law abiding citizens......
I have no hope of being able to buy my own place, once retired I will be unable to afford a rent, while some people with entire families come here with ill intentions and are given a council house and benefits.
I am deeply disappointed by this country. I dare not think what the british nationals feel about the way their country is governed...

eve, Woking, south of England

The Americans not only give you a taste of their medicine in their Jails but they actually black list you - so you are never allowed back in and put on an FBI list - and send you straight back. The prison system in Dubai works in much the same way.

This government is the laughing stock of immigrant lawyers, human rights lawyers. In other words, this government has got no bottle to send them back to either where they came from or to a country that will accept them based on the language they speak.

You couldn't make this up.

Jay, Harrow, UK

Oh good lord! Any foreigner who commits a crime should be booted out poste haste.Perhaps then we wouldn't look like such a soft touch. Perhaps the word would get round.

Frances , Tunbridge Wells, UK

Meanwhile, the law abiding are forced to spend a huge amount of money and jump through hoops to get visas to keep their families together.

The state is most interested in soaking easy targets for cash. Protecting the public is at best a secondary consideration.

Jamie, Gtr Manchester, UK