Here's one for we know who...

[sandyRoe]

http://uk.news.yahoo....asylum-092917006.html

I'm surprised some of the usual suspects aren't here already fulminating about this.

[FredPuli43]

The Daily Mail online has the claim that 'up to 2 per cent' of athletes will seek asylum so that's possibly just one, but no more than 2 per cent. Very restrained; they could have said 'up to' 99 per cent

The usual suspects may be more concerned with the Greek athlete banned for an African ' joke', but not, perhaps, with the Muslim husband told that he cannot use Sharia law to avoid paying his wife £60,000 but must obey the rules of this country [both from the same source]

[youngmafbog]

It is inevitable.

[anotheoldgit]

Seems like 'we know who' is not interested in a thread that is only placed to sarcastically entice.

[sandyRoe]

You cast many flies before a fish takes one.

[excelsior-1]

i only wish i knew who 'we know who' is.

[Duncer]

So you pay for them then?

[sandyRoe]

Yes, indeed. Think of the years of training they had to put in to get themselves a place on the Olympic team.
People with such determination will be an asset to us and a loss to their homeland.

[ladybirder]

In life i see myself as a helper and try to spread smiles, love and happiness wherever i go
Shouldn't this be in the Jokes section?

[Duncer]

I'm all for immigration, as long as it is controlled. As for the dole; it should not be a preference or a lifestyle choice; it is there to help those in difficulty.

We are a small island and can only support so much. Perhaps you can house them and spread your smiles further, thus cheering me up at the same time. You could even play them some Frankie Boyle to show them how "evolved" we are?

[DTCwordfan]

You say the old AB masters never got it wrong,
But when Hockney painted his death of the imagination
It was a lost African against a usurious yellow sky
And the African a hapless creature who had drawn himself
Ten miles on two legs, stared in amazement
To see the man who once fed him from his refugee plate
Reduced to this.

So I felt this week, the vile soil and everything upon it—
The African Refugee kicked from the table
Before his own Olympic team, and even the honest unpicking
Of sport performed nightly and in seclusion.
Like any Immigrant, a Knight Templar, his armour is resignation
Although I thought I would lift the bow myself
And draw.

By the morning he is gone
And what to make of this?
The Leeds prostitutes hang from a beam like mice
The brave man, now a refugee with the Yorkshire police.
And some say that being a refugee is now much better
And others, that it is worse.
So Olympic order was restored
I stared in AB amazement