MOST of the time government red tape is just an annoying inconvenience, but every now and then it becomes sinister.
Just ask Glenda Hyde who has lived in England for 40 years, paid tax in many of them, brought up three children and got married twice. Now Glenda has been told she’s not British and at one point even faced deportation.
The problem is one of paperwork - or the lack of it. Glenda was born in the USA but adopted by British parents who, it seems, didn’t fill in the right forms. Now she has to pass a Home Office test to prove she is entitled to live here.
This is ridiculous. Surely a letter would suffice, rather than subjecting someone who has done nothing wrong to the pettiness of government bureaucracy. Can’t somebody make common sense prevail here?
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