It would seem that ever more ingenious ways of gaining
rights to settle in our country are being devised. Today, for example, the BBC announced that seven members of the Cameroonian Olympic team had absented
themselves from the Olympic village with the presumed aim of staying here for
economic reasons, rather than returning to their home country. The seven
include the entire boxing team, a footballer and a swimmer, who join Natnael
Yemane, an Ethiopian torchbearer who pioneered this vanishing trick in June.
Will they end up going home? What do you think? What pretexts might they employ
to stay?
The BBC, for some reason, managed to omit something rather
salient relating to this matter, but the Daily Telegraph was not so coy about
divulging what this was. Telegraph journalist Andrew Hough wrote:
The group are not yet breaking British immigration rules after new accreditation rules, introduced to bypass normal visa procedures, meant all Olympic athletes, and their families, could stay in the country until early November.
Now, why would such athletes need to stay in the country
until late autumn? The games, if I am not mistaken, do after all finish this
month. It would therefore seem that if these missing Cameroonians do not manage
to fabricate claims of political asylum during this period, they should have
just enough time to fix up scam marriages or claim that they have entered into
meaningful relationships with British citizens, or perhaps their pets.
So, what will the Cameroons do about the Cameroonians? Do
not be surprised if some of them should happen to see this as an “opportunity”
to strengthen our sporting performance. Brace yourself therefore for seeing Cameroonians
performing as part of “Team GB” in 2016, for after all, there have been plenty
of competitors in our team this time around who bear but a spurious tie to our
country, hence the team being called “Team GB” rather than the “British Team”.
Why, by 2016 these Cameroonians will be, so the political class and the bulk of
the press would have you believe, as British as you or I.
Absconded Cameroonians: Cameroon A-Listers of tomorrow?
Durotrigan...'Why, by 2016 these Cameroonians will be, so the political class and the bulk of the press would have you believe, as British as you or I'
ReplyDeleteYes they will, and some will happily believe it. Care to bet how long most of our newer citizens would hang around to assist ‘their’ country if we found ourselves in a WW2 type crisis? My guess.....they’d be out on the first train boat or plane.
Any crisis that might arise in the future would in all likelihood be of a rather different nature, although I take your point with respect to the lack of genuine solidarity that such people would feel.
DeleteThe WW2 analogy is something my father often talks about. He asks how quickly all the immigrants, muslims and asylum seekers would vanish should this country be under a direct threat, or the populace faced a national draft to join the military?
ReplyDeleteOf course, we all know they would be out the country like a shot and our government would, quite stupidly, let them return when hostilities are over allowing them back to their homes, businesses etc. like nothing has happened while we, the indigenous Brits, would be left to pick up the pieces.
Synchronised Absconding - another useless Olympic 'discipline'. Do we have Cameroonian communities over here? I'll ring David Cameroon and ask him...
ReplyDeleteLaurie -
An interesting new discipline indeed! And the gold medal goes to Cameroon! It could be a little tricky presenting the medal to the winners however.
DeleteCrimewatch. Wanted. Absconded scrounging dead-beats. Can you help find them? lol.
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