Beardy Abu Bloke on his travels to the USA

[Propwash]

The yoghurt eaters and, worse still, yoghurt knitters are annoying, but have rather less influence on things than you and they suppose, ROG.

It's not the yoghurt eaters, or even the yoghurt knitters, annoying as they both are, it's the sandal-wearing, muesli-eating, vegetarian basta*ds who are the real problem.

PW

[Gerard Clarke]

Just so long as they don't wear socks with their sandals, I think we should be tolerant and forgiving towards them. If they have socks on, then please, PW, open fire.

[BlackheathBloke]

So Qatada is back in custody, with a target date of April 30th to have himdeported to Jordan.

Anyone fancy a guess at what date we'll actually get rid of him.

I reckon late August at the earliest.

Then another 5 years to get rid of the rest of his sponging family.

[ROG]

Heard report on tele that Theresa May having a look at how the french deal with nasty beardies. The amount of resources, costs, lawyers fees etc. etc it"s costing to get shot of this clown must be enormous. The main cause of the problem seems to me to be the ease with which people like him can enter the country.
We are spending probably millions on a problem that we shouldn"t have had in the first place. Let"s hope that it doesn"t drag on for another year or more.I expect that mrs beardie will continue to live over here at our expense. The soft touch of the world.

[Gerard Clarke]

Or the World's beacon of constutionalility, law, tolerance and freedom, depending on how you look at things. Pish taking by pish takers is a price that gets paid for having all the good stuff.

I reckon that Abu Q will be on his way in a few weeks.

[ROG]

Hi Gerard--can"t you sleep either--got my car problem--please reply on my new car problem thread. Your contribution would be welcome.
REGARDS ROG

[Rob P]

I know Jordan is getting pretty dog rough, but sending the towel-head to her for punishment seems a little lenient, whatever it was he's done.

Rob P

[BlackheathBloke]

I did love Cooper's comment expressing disbelief that it was taking so long to deport him.

Her lot started trying in 2001......

[Sharpie]

I reckon that Abu Q will be on his way in a few weeks.

Ah, but you didn't take account of the fact that the Law is an ass!
A "last minute apppeal" has just been launched ..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17758014
"Home Secretary Theresa May has said the process could take months."

[Propwash]

I can understand Gerard taking the view that he does over this; it is his profession after all so he isn't likely to recommend legal shortcuts, and generally I would agree with him. However, this has dragged on long enough and is in danger of turning into farce. To even moderately opinionated laymen, this never-ending situation brings the legal process into disrepute, which has its own price.

Stick him on the next flight out and see if he is so keen to fight the decision from his cell in Jordan using his own (rather than my) money.

PW

[Gerard Clarke]

The law can be a pain, but isn't that often an ass. Qatada will lose, and he will go. I agree that he has already had more than his fair share of public resources. His lawyers are either allowing themselves to be played through misguided principle, or are being cynical themselves. Ms Pierce appears from her published writings to have very naive, JCR style views about politics. She seemed to me rather rude and lacking in professional detachment when I acted against Qatada for the Secretary of State in a case about ten years ago (we had stopped his benefits - his challenge to that failed.) The legal delaying tactics used by Qatada himself are deeply cynical. He uses our benign system to wage low level sniping warfare, irritating us and costing us money. One of his objectives is, I infer, to make the UK public unhappy with our system. Any dissension that he can cause is good for him, he thinks. If repressive measures are brought in by the government, that's good for him too. Compare and contrast the loathsome Anjem Choudhury, who likes to cause outrage on an issue, and then move on to something else. It is infuriating, but we may just have to breathe deeply, and wait for Qatada to go, which he will.

[harry remmington]

Is he still living next door to Timothy's sister ?

[ROG]

No shortage of lawyers getting on the gravy train--dickens was right.

[BlackheathBloke]

Is he still living next door to Timothy's sister ?

I very much doubt it, I can't see Timothy's sister roughing it in Wembley !!

[ROG]

More procrastination---for gawds sake get on with it !!