Diana fund to help asylum seekers

[Gromit]

I am most heartened to see that The Diana Memorial Fund is marking the 10th anniversary of the Princess's death by earmarking up to �10 million of its remaining �25 million funds on promoting the rights of refugees and asylum seekers.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml =/news/2007/08/20/ndiana120.xml

Are you convinced as I am that it is exactly the sort of thing Princess Diana would have been involved in had she lived?

[Gromit]

NikkiB

Someone was going to ask the question abot the donation I'm sure.

[Nemesis1968]

Critics of the scheme include Lord Tebbit, the former Conservative cabinet minister, who said: "We spend vast sums already on asylum seekers and Government figures show that 90 per cent are not genuine cases. They talk about helping the marginalised in society. It's the old and the sick who are marginalised today."

Nuff said...

[China Doll]

How incorrigible you are Groms!

Scarpers off to snigger back in to coffee

[BillStickers]

Did Diana take a very serious anti-asylum, anti-refugee stance during her lifetime?

[anotheoldgit]

Wow Gromit how do you get away with it? Had I had posted the same question the Anti-Racist brigade would have been down on me like a ton of bricks.

Incidently sp1814, just a small point of rank, there are no Group Captains in the Army, only in the Air Force.

[Gromit]

anotheoldgit

I suspect you might have asked a different question.

[anotheoldgit]

No the same question gromit but perhaps put in a more direct way, without the touch of sarcasm, that you carefully wove into it.

[sp1814]

anotheoldgit

Okay...I'd settle for 'Lieutenant-Colonel Of The Do-Gooders'.

We'd be the worst peace-keeping force ever - we'd go over to Basra and get the insurgents on our side by getting everyone to sing 'Koom By Ya' whilst sitting round a camp fire, eating museli and stitching a big anti-war 'community quilt'...

...wow - that was scarily well thought out.

China Doll...no - you can be one of the majors reporting to me.

I would then report to Col Jno.

There....sorted.

[China Doll]

Major Doll reporting for duty!

I'm not reporting to jno though, he'll just make horrid jokes about my lead paint!

[MrBen5]

Hmmm, then you will all report to Field Marshall MrBen and i will work you until you have all those evil thoughts of anti war protests out of your head.
China Doll, i will see you in my tent after... ;)

[ruby27]

Gromit
please can you help. I am aware from other posters comments you have posted something clever and subtle. Only trouble is for me is that subtlety and cleverness often defeats my very literal thinking.

What was the clever catch with this, or would that be giving the game away.

bit of a digression. If we are going to use services language. sp1418, I am totally yours to command, can I be your batman?

[China Doll]

If I may Rubes - I'm not entirely sure whether Groms is being subtle or clever in this question. In my experience he's only ever one of the two... (I'm kiddin!)

However, I will say that he has an uncanny knack for picking stories that are not only interesting but also likely to spark a bit of a debate between the lefties and the righties. But because he's also something of a bright spark he can always argue his cause too so it's not always obvious.

He has a side line in clock making and his hobby is fishing.

Or I could be completely wrong.

But I think my nickname for him suits him!

Either way, News would not be the same without him and certainly not as amusing.

[Marvelman]

The BNP must be laughing all the way to the ballot box after this story broke, after reading this sh!t, i for one will be voting for them.

[sp1814]

Good on yer Marvelman.

Apparently they have special crayons for BNP supporters to register their votes.

ruby27 - I had to look up 'batman' on Wikipedia, because I thought it was rude.

It wasn't.

Night.

[China Doll]

Goodnight Splat

Marvelman - I'm want to retort. I really do. But I think it would be akin to bashing my head against a wall while someone pulls out my finger nails with a red hot polka to the tune of 'All I want for christmas.'

[Gromit]

China Doll,

Thank you for your kind words above. As perceptive as you are gorgeous.

[China Doll]

Awwww... Shucks Blushes

Although I do tend to state that I look like a cross between a gibbon and chimp so in actual fact, are you saying I'm dumb?! How dare you!













I know, I know... Incorrigible right? ;0)