Doesn't This Judgement Show The Eu To Be A Decent, Liberal, And Humane Place?
Whilst the individual nations of Europe may be many of those things the European Union cannot claim to be so because it does not have a unified "corporate identity" to which all its citizens subscribe. However, leaving that aside, this policy shows nothing of the sort.
All it Ishows is that those responsible for this pronouncement are purposefully naïve and profligate with their taxpayers’ money and facilities. All that Africans have to do now to successfully claim asylum is to say they are homosexual and - hey presto - the world is their oyster (well, at least the bit that calls itself the EU is).
No checks will be made. Rather like Mr Kebede from Somalia. Regular readers may remember him. He was the gentleman who it was revealed last week had won a court case forcing Newcastle City Council to pay for his “educational needs” in the form of £10k worth of flying lessons. He had, apparently, been abandoned by his father after Mr Kebede Snr’s asylum claim was rejected in 2004. As far as he knew, he said, his father was either in prison or had been killed because of his political beliefs. In fact he works as an air traffic controller at Addis Ababa airport and lives with his wife (Mr Kebede Jnr’s mother) in a £90k house - which he built himself following his ejection from the UK - in one of the more affluent areas of that city. Mr Kebede Jnr is said to be in regular contact with his father (which perhaps explains his aspirations to follow a career in aviation). Further, following his “abandonment” Mr Kebede Jnr claimed to be 15 meaning he was a “looked after child” and placing the onus of his care on to the taxpayer. It fact it transpired he was 20.
It’s a great pity that life is miserable and wretched for some people in Africa. Life was miserable and wretched for many people in the UK and the rest of Europe many years ago but the population did not up sticks to foreign lands and expect the population there to pay for their horse riding lessons.
It is not a great stretch to imagine that, once word gets round, this sort of deception - but based on the grounds of homosexuality - will soon become widespread throughout the EU and once again individual nation states will be forced to accept huge numbers of migrants who say they will suffer inhuman and degrading treatment should they return home. Just like Mr Kebede Snr apparently has.