SSP Research, Policy & Media Unit
Press Release: 21/09/03

Scottish Socialist Party MSP Rosie Kane today hit out at reports that Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre is to be expanded.
She said;
“The Home Office have been playing Jack McConnell for a fool.
“While 80% of Scots want Dungavel closed, the Home Office have been planning all through the summer to expand it.
“It looks to us as though Westminster doesn’t want Scotland’s powers so much devolved as dissolved.
“Surely now the First Minister, who has been coming on the hard man all week in relation to Scotland’s justice system, has to stand up to the Little Englanders who run the Home Office and who are determined to run a detention camp on Scottish soil that the people and elected representatives of the Scottish Parliament have no control over.”