Press Complaints Commission Say 'No' To Illegal Asylum Seekers

The Press Complaints Commission (a toothless bureaucracy who whine about the state of the British press) are up in arms about 'illegal asylum seekers'.
Should anyone wonder if they've been overcome with a sudden rush of commonsense, we hasten to add that they're not complaining about the asylum seekers themselves. Oh no. The cause of the PCC's hissy-fit is the fact that newspapers are using the *term* 'illegal asylum seekers'.
Huh?

'As an asylum seeker is someone currently seeking refugee status or humanitarian protection, there can be no such thing in law as an illegal asylum seeker.
An asylum seeker can only become an illegal immigrant if he or she remains in the UK after having failed to respond to a removal notice.'

… And this matters because?

The ruling also said that the emotive nature of the phrase meant there was a 'danger' of generating 'an atmosphere of fear and hostility that is not borne out by the facts'.

The British public, of course, are grateful to the PCC for bringing this to their attention. We had been worrying that jailed asylum seekers like hook-handed Islamonazi Abu Hamza were a threat to us.
Now that the PCC have reminded us he is, in fact, a *legal* asylum seeker, we'll rest easier at night, safe in the knowledge we are thus protected from an atmosphere of fear and hostility.
As for being protected from suicide bombings, bioweapons, poison gas and hijacked planes, well, that doesn't seem to be part of the PCC's remit. Thankfully.