It's not often I feel sorry for politicians, least of all those as obviously useless as Theresa May, our 'not-fit-for-purpose' Home Secretary in charge of, but not in command of, our equally 'not-fit-for-purpose' Home Office. However, the current imbroglio over the deportation, or not, of 'Abra Cadabra', or whatever his wretched name is, has arisen over a very easily made error by one of Mrs. May's lawyers not by her. Be honest, did you know or remember that it was a Leap Year this year? I had forgotten, and obviously so had the legal not-very-smarty-pants lawyer who acted on Mrs. May's behalf. She, to her credit, has done the proper thing and refused to blame her officials (in public, anyway, but what was said in private is probably unpublishable!) and in parliament she accepted full responsibility. 'The law is an ass', as we all know, but it would be a pleasant surprise if the judges concerned, who must see the confusion was a tiny and very understandable human error, acted with commonsense and allowed the deportation to ensue. Unfortunately, these are foreign judges and one must assume that most of them have a deep and abiding animus against this country for a whole list of historical wrongs supposedly inflicted on them by us and will thus enjoy every moment of tweaking HMG by the nose. It simply leaves me wondering why the idiots in Westminster ever allowed such people to hold sway over our own home-grown 'Cocklecarrots' who, whilst equally dopey at times, are at least part of us!
"Be honest, did you know or remember that it was a Leap Year this year?"
There is in fact a simple little rhyme which helps.
"Thirty days hath September,
April, June, but please remember
That leap years make it even harder
To deport a cunt like Abu Qatada"
Posted by: Whyaxye | Friday, 20 April 2012 at 11:38
'W', you're a poet but you don't know it! Excellent, my first hoot of the day!
Posted by: David Duff | Friday, 20 April 2012 at 11:47
If dim Dave wanted to boost his badly-flagging popularity, he should put Mr. Abracadabra on the first plane out, and tell the EU judges to put it in their pipes and smoke it.
What are they going to do, invade us?
Posted by: Andrew Duffin | Friday, 20 April 2012 at 12:23
No, Andrew, but they would sharpen their knives to inflict ever greater injuries upon us in the future. However, that might not be a bad thing because it would stiffen anti-European feeling in the country.
Posted by: David Duff | Friday, 20 April 2012 at 12:29
Could this be deliberate - they know AQ will never get to Jordan, so the case has been deliberately spoiled. As we speak some near-retirement wage slave iis getting ready to fall on sword in return for mucho payoff courtesy of lovely Teresa. Official cock-up, won't happen again..........
Posted by: Rogerh | Friday, 20 April 2012 at 17:45
(Sighs) Roger, so young and so cynical!
Posted by: David Duff | Friday, 20 April 2012 at 18:54