Failed Asylum Seeker: Taxpayer To Pick Up Tab So He Can Train To Be A Pilot

[ChillDoubt]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2487444/Taxpayers-10-000-teach-failed-asylum-seeker-fly.html

Speechless.

[Zeuhl]

/how did he get here in the first place, and when discovered why wasn't he thrown out straight away?/

Because he wasn't 'discovered' as you so prejudicially assume AOG

His father brought him and his brother here in 2004 and claimed asylum - the claim was rejected

He wasn't 'thrown out' because he was only 12 years old and was abandoned by his family

Perhaps that wouldn't have stopped you

/the Daily Mail, without them we would not hear cases such as this, can't see the any report on this in the Guardian. /

Really?
It was in The Telegraph and on Huffington and on BBC Radio 4

[Zeuhl]

/If I was a Newcastle council tax payer, I would be asking questions./

For what purpose

the council have fought it in Court - and lost

AOG
perhaps you should refrain from commenting on news items you clearly haven't even read or understood

[Hypognosis]

I take strong objection to claims that I 'clearly hate the Royals'. (@emmie)

As is the tradition in AB threads I am obliged to resort to the worn out phrase "where, exactly, did I actually say that?"

I made what I thought was a neutral observation, that about a million pounds had been spent training a particular personage and that (I think) we're getting about 2 years' service out of him.

I asked "is that good value?" and have not been graced with an answer.

Having previously expressed my dismay and envy about such preferential treatment being dished out to Mr Kebede I don't see how it can be fatuous to show that parallel, aviation-related, examples of profligacy with public funds exist.

What have I done for my country? Nothing beyond the ordinary. Besides attacking the character of the debater, instead of countering their argument is what ad hominem is all about.