Why ?

[youngmafbog]

http://news.sky.com/story/1179923/university-boat-race-protester-can-stay-in-uk

Why was this man allowed to stay, he is not desirable to our country, clearly doesnt like the way we are so why was he allowed I wonder?

Looks like the clue is in here:

The Australian told an immigration tribunal that if he is deported from the UK his British wife and five-month-old baby daughter will not move to Australia with him because it is a "racist country".

Is Australia any worse than here ? This has to be the lamest excuse ever but as usual the ruigth-on brigade swallow it hook line and sinker.

[FredPuli43]

Insulting not insulin!

[FredPuli43]

And anyway, he himself was displaying boat racism.

[craft1948]

That's okay Fred.................I said he was a t w a t not a snag.

[ummmm]

lol Fred....

I must have a walk down the canal and speak to all the boats that have been racially abused :-)

[hc4361]

Methyl, maybe she is British because she was born in Britain? Heavens, her parents may have been born in Britain, too!

[New Judge]

I don't think we need to get too bogged down with the racism aspect (and in any case there is more to being British than being born in Britain - a dog born in a stable cannot call itself a horse). The racism aspect is pure fantasy. There are many places in the world where racism is rife. I Include the UK in this and among the worst perpetrators of racism are often ethnic minorities. Try living as a white person in Newham in East London.; try being a black African living in Bradford; try being someone of Afro-Caribbean descent living in the Cowley Road area of Oxford.

These places can be unpleasant if you are of the wrong race or colour as I am sure many places in Australia might be. But they are not so dangerous that Mr Oldfield cannot find somewhere that he and his wife can live in his homeland, bearing in mind he has outstayed his welcome in the UK.

[emmie]

i once dated an Australian guy who's parents came from Poland and settled in Oz, he was a nice chap in some ways, but his thoughts and words on the indigenous population, the Aboriginals, came in for some very ripe language, i had no idea that many in Oz had the same feelings about the Abo's as they are disparagingly called. But having some other older Australian friends i can say their attitude was the same, that was not pleasant to discover.

[New Judge]

Yes emmie, unpleasant. But as I have said, there are many unpleasant places even in Mr Oldfield's Utopian UK. Hardly a valid reason to dismiss out of hand an entire nation as a suitable place to settle.