Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

pour encourager les autres




Sudanese man who walked into UK via Channel tunnel granted asylum

Abdul Haroun was arrested in August after walking nearly 31 miles through tunnel, but charges may now be dropped


Monday 4 January 2016 13.51 GMT


A Sudanese man who allegedly walked almost the entire length of the 31-mile Channel tunnel from France has been granted asylum in the UK.

Abdul Haroun, who was arrested at the English end of the tunnel in August and charged with obstructing a railway under an obscure 19th-century law, has been held in prison since then. He was to face trial this month.

At a brief hearing at Canterbury crown court, where Harount appeared via video-link from prison and spoke only to confirm his name, the prosecutor Philip Bennetts said the 40-year-old had been granted asylum on 24 December.




http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/04/sudanese-man-who-walked-into-the-uk-via-channel-tunnel-is-granted-asylum

inevitably, one asks why, and if him, why not the 0,000s of others?

at least it can be shown with some certainty that he came from a genuine war zone, but no longer on the same vicious scale as syria, or at least not as far as i know

Good friends.

as i wrote yesterday, the saudi perspective is very different from what we are told here ..... both versions will have an element of truth, though i suspect neither the unbiased truth ....... fred, you'll need to check into your fossilised brain to see if that word even resides there

Still no wickets...(:(....I might as well go back to texting girls...at least you know you can trust them......

temporary wives will always love both you and your wallet

Manuel.

Rather than shooting your fingers off, Get Paul Mason's Postcapitalism and try to read it and then sit back and do your best to understand it.

You will have some difficulties, but do try.

typically changing the subject ..... why on earth should i bother with some gobbledegook book? ...... life's too short for such

Your not still reading Fred's rubbish are you ? his brain is so biased you will never get any debate and bare in mind this is a bloke who thinks Corbyn and Diane Abbott should be running Britain ..

See they are still stoning women to death in the ME , i suppose the scum still live in the middle ages .

Manuel,

That is probably why you remain ignorant with your barrow boy mentality.

JB,

You are obviously adding mind reading to you inadequate skills.

Have a good day!

just occasionally ...... the saudi "horror story" is interesting however

like it or not, one has to accept that the death penalty and corporal (nearly wrote corporate!) punishment are commonplace in the region

thus, in saudi eyes, the shiite cleric nimr al-nimr was a militant preacher, arguably planted by iran, intent on spreading dissent and worse ...... this is deemed treason with only one penalty applicable

saudi would have had no problem at all in dealing with abu hamza!

whether or not the charges against nimr might have been at least reasonably provable i do not know ...... nor do i have any idea of the strength of the charges against the other 40, but i suspect they were all deemed to have taken a significant part in an attempted uprising

that saudi's actions were politically imprudent is another matter, but the saudis are rarely interested in such niceties, though a change in attitude might be forced upon them in coming years

Is that Fred posting stupid cartoons again .... Here's one he might like ..

The neo-cons future with an icon of corruptibility!

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Farage was bang on last night on TV ,he said Cameron will try to tell us he has a deal on benefits for migrants but he will not be addressing migration and the free movement of people .
What with the new camp at Dunkirk and the masses that will be attacking the trucks there as well, hopefully it will all add to us voting out of the EU this summer.

jimmy - probably not far off the mark

YouGov poll, out today, is still finding a very close EU referendum race –

41% would vote to stay, 42% would vote to leave. With the margins of error, that is pretty even.

It looks like the 17% undecided will make the difference. I think we will end up staying in due to fear.