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retep On May 18, 2010




, United Kingdom
#1New Post! Jan 19, 2010 @ 20:09:23
This morning's edition of You Couldn't Make It Up stars 31-year-old Moroccan Rashid Ali, who came to this country six years ago in search of a better life.

He tore up his passport and pretended to be Algerian, in the belief that he stood more chance of being granted asylum.
A short while after arriving, he decided that Britain wasn't all it was cracked up to be. So, naturally, he decided to leave.
With the myriad problems we have deporting failed asylum seekers and terrorists, you might have thought the authorities would be happy to see the back of him.
After all, the Government has resorted to bribing illegal immigrants to go home, even chartering special flights to repatriate them.
So they should have been offering to drive Rashid to the airport and bidding him a fond farewell. Missing you already
But the Moroccans are in no rush to get him back and have failed to issue him with a new passport. And because he has no papers, British officials refused to let him leave. When he tried to escape, he was arrested and put in detention.
So far, he has stowed away on six cargo ships, but each time he has been brought back. He has even been offered his own flat to persuade him to stay put, but refused.
Rashid is currently being held in a 'removals' centre near Heathrow, even though he won't be going anywhere fast.
This Kafkaesque farce has been running since 2004, during which time Rashid has been jailed for nine months for stealing a coat and made the subject of a deportation order.
More than a year ago a judge promised to 'kick some backsides' at the Home Office, saying the refusal to repatriate him beggared belief.
It costs ?43,000 a year to keep him in detention. The bill to the British taxpayer, including legal fees, adds up to more than ?300,000.
We have known for a decade that Britain's asylum and immigration system is absurd. But this case is beyond bonkers.
If Rashid Ali wants to leave, let him. If Morocco doesn't want him, he can try his luck somewhere else.


Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1244274/When-comes-asylum-lunatics-really-taken-over.html#ixzz0d5gIGXpu



And I have seen posters saying they will still vote Labour.
jmo On April 29, 2021
Beruset af Julebryg





Yorkshire, United Kingdom
#2New Post! Jan 19, 2010 @ 20:14:20


Definitely precedent of everything else happening in the country and was ofcourse the fault of every member of the PLP.

Do I sound like a Daily Mail reading right-wing nut job yet?
crazychica On March 13, 2011
A taste of insanity





Aberdeen, United Kingdom
#3New Post! Jan 19, 2010 @ 20:19:16
Of course it couldn't be because the Morrocan government wouldn't have him, would it? No no no. It's Labour's fault. It's Labour's fault that he Mr Ali was stuck without a passport. It's Labour's fault that the Morrocans refused to give him a new one and it's Labour's fault that you can't travel without valid papers

Nothing Labour can do but try to get the Morrocans to re-issue his papers. If he hadn't been stupid enough to destroy his passport then he would not be in this position. The fact of the matter is that your identity must be able to be verified by border control officials before you can enter or leave this country. Not only did he not have the correct papers which would have allowed him to travel home but the Morrocan government refused to reissue them.

So if you have to blame a government, blame the Morrocans. Labour had nothing to do with it.
dazzler On September 10, 2010




, United Kingdom
#4New Post! Jan 19, 2010 @ 20:22:59
Don't beleive everything you read in the papers! Mind you it was the daily mail...
sheepy On March 23, 2010

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Treasure Island, United Kingdo
#5New Post! Jan 19, 2010 @ 20:29:19
Well Labour have done some nutty things in their time (Accepting Harriet Harman as a member ranks pretty much up there ) but this isn't their fault. The Uk just cannot get rid of him, due to his own greedy stupidity.

Having said that, he can't be that enterprising, it isn't THAT hard to leave the country illegally, but yes, a lot harder than leaving France where you can just hop across the nearest potato field.
sheepy On March 23, 2010

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Treasure Island, United Kingdo
#6New Post! Jan 19, 2010 @ 20:34:11
@dazzler Said

Don't beleive everything you read in the papers! Mind you it was the daily mail...



Let's see

He was a "bloody foreigner"........ Check .

Muslim for good measure.......probably...... Check.

Asylum seeker................. Check.

Not working............... Check.

Involved in criminal activity......well it was probably in order to survive, and wasn't exactly gun running, but what the heck.......... Check.

A "darkie"..........no......oh hang on can't we imply he is....well Morocco is sunny and people there tend to be darker than northern europeans....oh ok then............... Check.

Yup - the right paper there.
carlstss On January 25, 2014




Derby, United Kingdom
#7New Post! Jan 19, 2010 @ 20:36:15
this isnt hardly surprising in this day and age.
treebee On April 13, 2015
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London, United Kingdom
#8New Post! Jan 19, 2010 @ 20:36:19
daily fail
retep On May 18, 2010




, United Kingdom
#9New Post! Jan 19, 2010 @ 20:36:26
The usual knee jerk reaction to anything printed in the DM.... Shoot the messenger... rubbish the story... whatever you do dont give it any credence whatsoever despite the fact its true.

Under no circumstances allow any critisism of Labour... and above all never never show anything that even hints that you might have a sense of humour.

what a po faced lot of little socialist apparatchics you are.
treebee On April 13, 2015
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London, United Kingdom
#10New Post! Jan 19, 2010 @ 20:37:19
@retep Said

what a po faced lot of little socialist apparatchics you are.



thanks!
jmo On April 29, 2021
Beruset af Julebryg





Yorkshire, United Kingdom
#11New Post! Jan 19, 2010 @ 20:40:24
@retep Said

The usual knee jerk reaction to anything printed in the DM.... Shoot the messenger... rubbish the story... whatever you do dont give it any credence whatsoever despite the fact its true.

Under no circumstances allow any critisism of Labour... and above all never never show anything that even hints that you might have a sense of humour.

what a po faced lot of little socialist apparatchics you are.





The incident has so little to do with the Labour party, or any other parliamentary party for that matter, that it's quite a stretch to use this as proof that they are somehow useless in Government. It is however something the Daily Mail excels in, hmm.

Criticise Labour for something they actually have done wrong, like Iraq War or getting rid of the 10p tax band.
crazychica On March 13, 2011
A taste of insanity





Aberdeen, United Kingdom
#12New Post! Jan 19, 2010 @ 20:41:03
@retep Said
what a po faced lot of little socialist apparatchics you are.



Why I do believe that's a compliment

Or at least I'm taking it as one.
treebee On April 13, 2015
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London, United Kingdom
#13New Post! Jan 19, 2010 @ 20:43:20
we cant all be closet BNP supporters.
sheepy On March 23, 2010

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Treasure Island, United Kingdo
#14New Post! Jan 19, 2010 @ 20:43:45
The problem with the Daily Heil is that they seem obsessed with asylum seekers and the ilk. This makes it hard to take them seriously on other things, like they have a hidden agenda.
Though I'd be more inclined to trust them than the stuff printed in the excremental Mirror or Sun.

As for Labour, they get a panning when they deserve it. There's some on here think the sun shines out of Labours arse (Haven't so far posted in this thread), but thankfully the UKers, even the Labour or Tory supporters aren't as fanatical and intolerant of other opinions as many of the American Republican and Democrat supporters on here are.
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