Abu Qatada 'would Return To Jordan'

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22480089

Dare we hope that the Jordan government agrees to ratify the treaty drawn up with the UK government, or is this yet another wheeze invented by this person's legal team?

[Gromit]

See question below

[anotheoldgit]

Sorry Gromit, you hadn't posted when I was constructing mine.

[Gromit]

Maybe Qatada's legal team already know that the Jordanians will not ratify the agreement in its present form.

But if they know that, surely the Government knows that. Why haven't we been told by Theresa May if the Jordanians are holding up extradition. Surely not to avoid her own political embarrassment over this case?

[Gromit]

That's OK AOG,

I expect most people will go with your thread.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// That's OK AOG, ///

/// I expect most people will go with your thread. ///

Now why should that be my dear old Gromit?

[Gromit]

Because you are older and wiser ;-)

[ludwig]

// ...police in Copenhagen arrested and charged a man but will not say who he is or what he is charged with. //

Perhaps you have to say pretty please before they'll tell you the details.

[FredPuli43]

Why answer yours, aog ?Because it bears your pseudonym. That's a guarantee of a certain style in the writing and a certain style of thinking. Had it been signed Jerome K Jerome, Lewis Carroll, or Francis Bacon, were that possible, I'd surely give that priority too.

I think the legal team may sense the game is up and wish to appear reasonable, and not representative of an unjustified overspend of public money.

[anotheoldgit]

FredPuli43

/// Why answer yours, aog ?Because it bears your pseudonym. That's a guarantee of a certain style in the writing and a certain style of thinking. Had it been signed Jerome K Jerome, Lewis Carroll, or Francis Bacon, were that possible, I'd surely give that priority too. ///

In the same league as those eminent gentlemen eh? well I am honoured.

/// I think the legal team may sense the game is up and wish to appear reasonable, and not representative of an unjustified overspend of public money. ///

And when has his legal team ever bothered about the overspend of public money?

[FredPuli43]

Why worry about overspend? Public relations only. The Derby winner had already left the stable before the door was bolted. But the firms have to live and while they live on public money it's as well to make themselves sound reasonable.

You differ in some ways from those three, aog. Jerome K Jerome's short pieces are not funny at all, though intended to be; his masterpiece, however, took a real journey, three real people and a dog as factual, which they were, and then distorted and exaggerated the facts until they bore little resemblance, in print, to the true story. Francis Bacon wrote excellent short essays, sprinkled with Greek and Latin. Lewis Carroll wrote engaging nonsense of a world that didn't exist though appeared strangely real and logical when he wrote about it.

You bear comparison, aog.

[Gromit]

I think you may have fallen into a trap there AOG.

[modeller]

I wouldn't bank on it the EU will still interfere as usual.

[Lie-in King]

Apologies for not being as serious as the thread requires, but am I the only person that's reminded of the "Have I Got News For You" episode hosted by Jo Brand that can't help but think of ♫Have a banana♫ when I see this muppet's name?

[FredPuli43]

Not the EU interfering though it might be the European Court of Human Rights, but I think they've had their say.

[bazwillrun]

no doubt done a deal that if he goes voluntarily his filthy family can stay here and claim benefits in peace and quiet and be educated at our expense

[Gromit]

Fender

// He went on to tell a 30-strong crowd: “We are going to take England — the Muslims are coming.” //

30 Strong 'crowd'. haHa!

[naomi24]

I read something the other day about the way France deals with people it wants to deport. It deports them immediately – and then hears their appeals in their absence. Apparently very few succeed. Maybe we should take a leaf out of France’s book.

[anotheoldgit]

naomi24

/// Maybe we should take a leaf out of France’s book. ///

Are you suggesting that we redevelop a 'backbone' like the one we once had?

[modeller]

It went when Ted Heath took us in and Blair handed them £6 billion pounds a year so he could be the first EU president. Since then we have had a wet nurse running the country.