Phil Woolas: The Last Goodbye

The political career of Phil Woolas is over.
Finito. Dead.
Excellent news.
The High Court today upheld the decision to strip Woolas, Labour's former Immigration Minister, of his seat in the House of Commons.
Woolas narrowly won the Oldham East and Saddleworth seat in May, but the result was declared void by a special election court that ruled he'd lied about the Lib Dem candidate.
He was found guilty of making "false statements" - ie lying - in election literature which pandered to racists for electoral gain.
Woolas also produced literature that accused the unmarried Lib Dem, Elwyn Watkins, candidate of lying about living in the constituency and insinuating he was gay.
Watkins was described as "a single man who lives alone with his mother".
And lest we forget, as New Labour's Immigration Minister one could argue that his last job also involved pandering to racists for electoral gain.
He was also a hate figure for LGBT campaigners.
Fagburn is glad to see the back of the man who oversaw the shameful Immigration Office policy that lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people seeking asylum could return to their countries if they were "discreet".
The Sun once devoted an editorial to singing his praises;
"Phil Woolas speaks more sense on immigration than every minister combined in 11 years of this Government... [he] attacks his own Government for failing to check numbers in and out and making it too easy for illegals to stay."
It says much that Woolas used it in his election literature.