If You Haven't Yet Voted, Read This First?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3070709/Notorious-London-gangster-dubbed-General-given-new-life-Wales-government-t-deport-carried-violent-armed-robbery-new-home.html

[jackthehat]

I fail to see the connection.
How will voting have any impact on this?

[anotheoldgit]

And before anyone criticises me because of this immigrants skin colour, here's another so as to balance things out.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3071010/Judge-hits-lack-checks-Lithuanian-killer-came-UK-without-hindrance-threatening-kill-neighbour-knife.html

[SlackAlice]

I cannot see the 'connection' either.

Perhaps you can enlighten us AOG

[jackthehat]

Again, how will voting have an impact?

[Gromit]

And how is that supposed to influence my vote?

The Coalition, and Labour before them have not been able to deport him, because he is stateless and no one knows where he is from. When he arrived as a 10 year old without any documents or guardian, were we supposed to reject them?

Are UKIP Promising to deport 10 year old parentless children?

[mushroom25]

this might well be a pop at our government's ineffectual immigration and deportation policy - or it could be a pop at the way that the UN's vision of a human rights charter (after the horrors of the war) has become corrupted and hijacked for the benefit of criminals.

just guessing.

[jackthehat]

I imagine it is a combination of both, mushroom.

It strikes me as simply being a 'topical' way of AOG returning to one of his usual hobby-horses....

[jno]

which constituency is he standing in?

[mushroom25]

maybe jack.

even our Nige concedes that unless exit from the EU is sanctioned by referendum, there's nothing anybody can do to change situations like this.

[Baldric]

What difference will a vote make, any Government would have it's hands tied by the same rules, or are you promoting UKIP for their stance on Immigration?

[Gromit]

Mushroom,

Not sure being out of the EU would help to prevent cases such as this one.

[EDDIE51]

I have to join the 'whats the connection' brigade.
Also as he is from Africa leaving the EU would not make a difference either!
Are you after the 'pointless question of the day award' AOG?

[anotheoldgit]

mushroom25

At least one person is able to work things out, this is not only about this individual case but many more like it.

[youngmafbog]

Perhaps the problem is he should spend the rest of his life in jail.

But which of the parties has the bottle to do that?

[jackthehat]

I rather think that the rest of us had worked out exactly what it was you were trying to say, AOG......as per my earlier post.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// Not sure being out of the EU would help to prevent cases such as this
one. ///

No but wait till he is finely threatened with final deportation, he always has the ECHR to defend his 'right to a family life' since he has children, regardless of fact that he has no contact with them.

[Gromit]

The European Court of Human Rights is not an EU body, it is a Council of Europe body.
Many countries, not in the EU are signed up to the ECHR. Getting out of the EU does not get us out of ECHR.

[jackthehat]

You were asked what the connection was rather than what point you were trying to make.

The point was obvious.....the connection, less so.

[SlackAlice]

//Pointless? some of you are not clever enough to go on Tipping Point. //

Yes, quite agree with you. What on earth would I want with Tipping Point?

//Are you after the 'pointless question of the day award' AOG? //

^^^^ Very accurate assessment.