Do second rate officials get to chose for us?

I have been looking through the ITV Player vids of the X Factor, both last nights performances and those of Gamu, right at the beginning. I really do like three of the four girls who got through and imagine that they all have some degree of success ahead of them..but that little girl from Scotland was better than any of them at her worst and with no more than a flower in her hair she filled a whole stage to bursting point. I expected to find some reason for her being left out of the show, something I had missed..but there is nothing except for the possibility of government interference..which we are told never happened.

I do not believe it. Unless Cheryl Cole went tone deaf and stayed that way, taking the other judges with her when it come to the choice of wild card, then someone put the boot in for fear that a girl of eighteen would demonstrate to would be immigrants that all they have to do is develop a breathtaking talent of real financial value and they will be allowed to come over here and go on benefits..not that Gamu was on them but what the hell. Myself, with a talent like that, I would rather earn large sums of money working it...but who can tell with immigrants?

What really bothers me, in the end. however, is that we are in need of good nurses, Gamu's mother appears to be considered worth-while by her employers and her community..she is a single mother who has worked, studied and made herself a part of her community while bringing up three children. If she asked for financial help she was not entitled to then she did not lie, she simply asked if she was entitled and was told that she was...her employers and neighbours want to keep her, her children's school want to keep the family, her local MP, for heavens sake, wants her to be allowed to stay because she is an asset to the community and her daughter has the makings of an asset to Scotland..but some second rate officials in West Minster, with either sense not generosity of spirit have decided to apply the word rather than the intention of the law so that they can bump up the numbers when they declare how many deportations they have arranged this year. They can have no doubt that this family are valuable to their community and that they will suffer if they are deported; they can not doubt that this family has a work ethic worthy of praise and support..but they have interfered to prevent a gifted young woman from being able to ensure that her family never has to live in a poverty stricken country where all their efforts may not be enough to keep them adequately fed and housed or able to complete the education of the younger children! This is not good government, it is malice, laziness and envy and I can not be the only one who objects to such people making decisions on my behalf?