Our wonderful Home Secretary
I’m being sarcastic. Obviously.
Obnoxio the Clown offered up a link on Tom Harris’s blog to this article about an asylum seeker in Alan Johnson’s Hull West and Hessle constituency. He initially helped Emmanuel Njoya and his family stay in the UK by “making an impassioned “life and death” plea not to send Emmanuel back to the volatile African nation of Cameroon, where he had been tortured for being a member of opposition political party, the South Cameroons National Council (SCNC)”. Since becoming Home Secretary last year, he has been accused of betraying the family by withdrawing his support.
Jackie Fearnley, of human rights charity Justice First, who backed the family’s seven-year battle to stay in the country said,
Alan Johnson has not been able to answer the simple question of why, as Emmanuel’s MP, he could assert it would be dangerous for him to go back to Cameroon, but as Home Secretary, he could decide he was perfectly safe.
Just a hunch, but I propose that he is a duplicitous weasel. We read on,
St Aidan’s Church, where the couple were married, has been a pillar of support for the family.
Last May, members of the congregation picketed Heathrow Airport when attempts were first made to deport Emmanuel.
They successfully managed to persuade the pilot not to take him.
Is he wanting to smack down those bolshy Christians?
Speaking about Mr Johnson, the vicar said: “I am appalled anybody can change their stance so very quickly.
“To me, it appears he is someone prepared to put his career ahead of this family’s wellbeing.”
Well, quite. It is all the more remarkable when we consider that Alan Johnson “doesn’t lose any sleep” over the population reaching 70 million. It seems he would lose sleep over this particular family that has already been in the country for seven years and is a much-loved part of the local community.
It has been admitted that his own shameful government even allowed mass immigration to socially engineer the population.
The family has been sent back to Cameroon where it is reported they have slept rough in a park after being forced to flee their safe house when police officers came looking for them and their baby has since contracted yellow fever and had to be hospitalised.
Meanwhile, Captain Hook, Abu Hamza, who has cost the taxpayer nearly three million pounds in benefits, the NHS, police, lawyers and prison, is still snug in his Belmarsh prison cell complete with £650 taps that he can use with his hook (even though he could operate the old ones). The calls from Yemen and the USA for him to be extradited on terrorism-related charges have been ignored because of his Human Rights.
At least we know the sort of person Alan Johnson would prefer made up the extra nine million people he doesn’t mind coming to the UK: people who hate us and divide society. Abu Hamza is a retarded chancer who was blown to bits by a land mine. I don’t know what Alan Johnson’s excuse is.
Er … error … Hooky was bown up by a bomb he was himself making while teaching others how(not?) to do it. He just likes to put that other story around to make himself appear a bit of an Islamic hero rather than an incompetent stumblebum.
Thanks, Sir Henry, and welcome. I wasn’t sure, so I looked it up on Wikipedia and it said he was clearing land mines and one exploded.
This is the same Home Secretary who could see no reason to block the extradition to the US of Gary Mackinnon despite reports that Mr Mackinnon suffers from a debilitating psychiatric condition and had commited any crime that he may have committed on UK sovereign territory, the same Home Secretary who took the Home Office job rather than resign with Purnell and so almost surely saving the country from another year of Brown?
That the one you mean Stewart?
Johnson’s another retarded chancer, Jim. He’d suit a hook.
Quite a few of them would suit a hook.
I used to think, when I was young and naive, oh, about three years ago (I’m a late developer – don’t think too harshly of me – better late than never) that Europe was a good idea. We have rising superpowers who may not necessarily be friendly to our interests – we need a strong Europe to have power to maintain the balance.
As the latest late Nicholas Ridley – no traitor he – said, he had no objection to ceding power to a Union but ‘not to this lot!’.
They couldn’t blow the skin off a rice pudding. They’re too busy (Stewart’s is a family blog remember Jim).. er, …’pleasing’… each other.
I think most of us in our naivety thought the EEC/EU was a good idea. I used to think that socialism was a good idea. We live and learn (hopefully).
O/T but what’s all this about you buying Krugerrands? I trust you are joking. I bought a 1934 florin once off ebay. Worth about quid it is, if it’s real.
If you really have bought Kurgerrands the good news is that, while gold is extremely malleable, tungsten is impossible to work at that level of fineness. If you try it the die will break after about three strikes at a forgery (three strikes and you’re out). Real gold is actually cheaper to peddle.
There. Hi English. Now you know. Dr of metallurgy. You just have the lurgi. In your brain.
Hi Dr Baxter,
Hey, I’m not even on this thread yet and you’re giving me gip! (If you don’t know what gip is, it must be that you’re not Northern).
I’m not a Dr of anything, but I know a pig in poke when I see one. When it really hits the fan, and I mean really, Gold is useless. It’s current value comes about mainly because of a tradition that the stuff is valuable and rare. Not so in the age of modern mining techniques and Tungsten counterfeiting.
Christians beware. That which is popular with the world cannot possibly be of any use to you.
In my humble opinion, Silver is a much better bet. More abundant, not difficult to refine, easy to transport, difficult to counterfeit (if you know what you are looking for), high value to weight ratio, numerous commercial uses including I.T. and Medicine, what more could you want?
My brain is fine. The baldness is due to age and stress, not heavy metal poisoning.
My final thought on this matter. One cannot eat Gold. Nor Silver.
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PS.
Hey Stewart. I hate to appear smug, but I never, ever thought that the EEC/EU was a good idea.
Socialism is the epitomisation of jealousy, envy, rage and hate. All dressed up and nowhere to go.
We call it gyp where I come from English. Even further north than all you norse dwarves who keep stealing our rings and keep generally Fafniring about.
But you are right. You often are, good sir. The time is coming when the true currency will be tins of beans. Guido Fawkes has been saying as much, and I agree with him.
You’ve read my comment on Subrosa, Jim. I really did buy one or two krugerrands off ebay. You’ve made me feel better about it with what you’ve written. Thanks.
The free movement of people, goods and services was and is a good idea. It enriches everybody.
Harmonisation is where it went wrong for Europe.
They should weigh exactly 34 grammes Stewart, 31.28 grammes of which is gold – the rest being copper – and be exactly the same size as an old half-crown. I have one of those – an old half crown I mean. It’s actually worth less than it was when it was currency. That’ll learn me.
I have a gold-plated jack plug though. That’s gotta be worth at least a quid.
English:
“But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.”
But, gold is a much better ‘bet’ than money in today’s financial climate, as is a food store and alternative means of making heat and light.
“Socialism is the epitomisation of jealousy, envy, rage and hate. All dressed up and nowhere to go.”
I’ve seen the light, but I thought it was one for all and all for one. I was wrong.
Welcome, Monoi. I certainly benefit as I import from and export to the EU, but it’s a very small benefit when your freedom is at stake.
Jim,
‘Caveat emptor’ as they say (especially on ebay!). Re. your half crown, if it’s pre-1947 it’ll be 50% silver. Probably still worth less than it was at the time, but better than a poke in the eye.