Come one, come all...

[Jarlaxle]

Roll, roll, roll the joint
Pass it down the line
Take a toke & hold the smoke
Feel it blow yer mind!

Smokin' some good shit today, rube?

[rubato]

And you have FINALLY shaken your fixation with alcohol! You didn't get far though, shifting one drug for another but for you its quite a good start. Kudos!



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[Jarlaxle]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand...he's back in the bottle. Seek professional help, dude!

[rubato]

The strain of originality was too much and you reverted; too bad. Well, keep trying.


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[Gob]

Asylum seekers housed in hotel with 'spectacular sea views’

The Grand Burstin Hotel overlooks Folkestone's harbour and "is an ideal gateway to the continent", according to its website.

More than 130 asylum seekers have been moved into a seaside hotel popular with pensioners for dining and entertainment nights, it was revealed today.

They were transferred to the Grand Burstin Hotel in Folkestone, Kent, after overcrowding at the three-star Queens Hotel in Crystal Palace, south London, where 600 have been crammed in.

But Damian Collins MP, who represents Folkestone and Hythe, has tried to reassure local residents that the asylum seekers will not be around for long - after learning of what was happening yesterday.

He said: ‘Clearly it’s a decision the Home Office has made very quickly, to relieve the situation in Croydon. I’ve been reassured that this is only a very temporary move.’

The 550-room three-star hotel - which has room rates for tonight ranging from £34 to £66 - boasts ‘spectacular sea views’ and states it is renowned as ‘one of the UK’s top entertainment hotels’.

On its website, it also says how guests can ‘relax, dine in style and be magically entertained all under one roof.’ Locals say it is particularly popular with pensioners for dining and entertainment nights.

[rubato]

Asylum seekers, aren't they all, well, foreign?

Have you run out of dung-plastered wattle huts for them already? No empty hovels to shift them into? A haystack they can make a nest in? Heavens, one day you are going to appear tolerant.

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[Lord Jim]

Of course, not everyone who belongs in an asylum is a foreigner...

[MajGenl.Meade]

Yes but Folkestone? That's just cruel. Should be along the coast a bit - somewhere nice like Dover. Lots of accomms.

[Gob]

Asylum seekers, aren't they all, well, foreign?

He's getting there Jim. See, all the free education he's been getting here has not been a waste.

Next we'll get him to make definitive statements, rather than hedging his bets with questions.

[Gob]

A Zambian citizen jailed for setting alight council buildings during the 2011 London riots has won his battle to stay in the UK on the grounds he 'would not be welcomed' in his homeland.

Joseph Janbazian Zulu, 20, was sentenced to four and a half years for arson and violent conduct for his part in the riots. He was to be sent to his homeland of Zambia but an immigration tribunal overturned the decision. Conservative MP Philip Hollobone said he was disgusted by the decision. He told the Sun on Sunday: 'This is unacceptable. The human rights act needs to be replaced. 'Any foreign national convicted of a crime should be deported and banned from ever returning.'

Janbazian moved to the UK from Zimbabwe in 2003 to join his mother and was granted indefinite leave to remain in 2010. He has two older brothers who also live in the UK and two younger half siblings whose father is a Nigerian national now married to his mother. Janbazian got involved in the riots during the summer of 2011 and set fire to the offices near his home in Haringey, north London. He denied arson and violent disorder but was convicted by a jury. He was ordered to return to his homeland and was told he could keep in touch with his relatives via phone and internet.

However he said it breached his right to family life and an immigration tribunal allowed him to remain in the UK.

[Lord Jim]

he 'would not be welcomed' in his homeland.

or any place else for that matter...

'Any foreign national convicted of a crime should be deported and banned from ever returning.'

Racist!

[Gob]

A man who shot his dying wife 14 times as she was hanging from a noose can continue to live freely in Britain – after judges refused to extradite him




Branko Loncar, 55, has won a long legal battle against being returned to Croatia to serve four years in prison for attempted murder, despite committing further crimes, including an assault, while living in London. He earlier won asylum after complaining he had to flee Croatia because of anti-Serb discrimination – and his lawyers argued locals would persecute him over the shooting. Last week’s High Court ruling is a sharp reminder that while the Government talks of ejecting foreign criminals, in practice the criminals routinely win the right to stay here.

Loncar, who has been on benefits and had a drink problem since arriving in Britain with his two sons in 1999, made the extraordinary defence that he was not aiming at his wife when he fired repeatedly from a few yards away. In any case, his lawyers claimed, she died as a result of hanging herself, not because of the 14 bullets he ‘accidentally’ fired into her defenceless body. A Croatian court which heard the case in his absence rejected his defence, sentenced him to four years in prison, and ten years ago the country formally issued an international arrest warrant and requested his extradition from Britain.

His lawyers first successfully fought against the extradition on human rights grounds, arguing that he had a new Serbian ‘partner’ in Britain – who actually lives a hundred miles away – and that he now had grandchildren in London. And last week British judges finished off the extradition bid for ever, giving Loncar the right to remain free here, after ruling it ‘oppressive’ to send him back to prison in Croatia after so long. He was also commended for raising his children alone after shooting his wife.

Speaking in broken English to the Daily Mail last night at his housing association flat close to fashionable Camden in North London, Loncar said he had every right to remain in Britain, adding: ‘Croatia is dangerous – they still want me there.’

[MajGenl.Meade]

He was also commended for raising his children alone after shooting his wife

.

Well, they were almost orphans...

[oldr_n_wsr]

who has been on benefits and had a drink problem

Don't be giving us alcoholics a bad name.

[Gob]

A Libyan convicted of 78 offences cannot be deported from Britain because he is an alcoholic.

Seven years after the man was first told he would be booted out of the country, a judge has finally ruled that it would breach his human rights.

In what is thought to be an unprecedented case, he successfully argued he would be tortured and imprisoned by the authorities in his homeland because drinking alcohol is illegal. Judges rejected Home Secretary Theresa May's attempt to deport the 53-year-old serial criminal because of the risk of 'unacceptably savage' abuse he faced in Libya. It means he will be able to continue his drink-fuelled offending spree in Britain. His case is estimated to have cost British taxpayers a six-figure sum, including the cost of police time, legal fees racked up by challenging his claims in the courts and the costs of keeping him in prison.

The case reignited the row over the ease with which alleged foreign criminals could exploit human rights laws. Last night Peter Bone, Tory candidate for Wellingborough, said the case illustrated why Britain should scrap the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 'This kind of things drives people mad,' he said. 'On the doorstep they find cases like this outrageous. Few people will think this man should remain in the country. He has completely abused our hospitality.'

Despite insisting the Libyan had 'behaved disgracefully' to rack up 78 crimes on 52 occasions, the Upper Immigration Tribunal said deporting him would violate the European Convention on Human Rights, incorporated into British law by the Human Rights Act.

[Big RR]

He's in good company; the UK refused to send Pinochet home on "humanitarian" grounds as well.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Pinochet - bad man, but he wasn't committing 78 crimes in the UK was he? There'd be no fuss about this guy either if he wasn't a law breaking scum who deserved a ticket home. "I can't go home because I drink too much" - deep six him. Send him to France.

[Big RR]

Well, I don't know what the person being allowed to stay was found guilty of in the UK or how serious the crimes were, but I would bet they'd pale in comparison to the crimes against humanity Mr. Pinochet orchestrated, from mass murder to torture.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Point


You

[Gob]

A 'psychopathic' Slovakian rapist allowed to settle in the UK has been jailed for life for sexually abusing and trafficking children as young as three in Rotherham.



Eduard Peticky travelled to England in 2008 for a 'better life' and was allowed to stay despite convictions for rape, sexual abuse and robbery in his home country.

Sentencing him yesterday, the judge condemned Peticky's crime as 'horrific' and said reports from Slovakian authorities showed he had a 'psychopathic personality'.

Peticky, 48, had been jailed in 1988 for more than eight years after raping two women in a park with two accomplices and was branded 'a dangerous repeat offender' in Slovakia.

After settling in South Yorkshire he trafficked a young girl for sex before abusing her himself, Sheffield Crown Court heard.

The youngster, who said that she was five when the incident happened, was so terrified she wet herself and was sick with fear.

Peticky also sexually abused a boy when the child was aged between three and five years old.

His brother Ludovit Peticky was jailed for 12 years for offences against the same two children and a third victim, who was between 10 and 11.

The offences took place between 2010 and 2012 in the Eastwood area of Rotherham.

In September 2013, the victims disclosed what had happened to them to a trusted adult and an investigation began.

The pair had denied the charges but were convicted of a string of sexual offences involving three children following a four-day-trial last year.

Sentencing was delayed as the authorities tried to get hold of details of the pair's previous convictions in Slovakia.

Judge Peter Kelson, QC, said the report from the Slovakian authorities indicated that Eduard Peticky was a 'particularly repeat offender' and had a 'psychopathic personality'.

Judge Kelson added: 'This was a truly horrifying incident. It is as depraved as depraved could be. It is nothing short of horrific.'