He has called on the Home Office to implement a key recommendation in a report this summer from Stephen Shaw that foreign national offenders who have lived in the UK since childhood should not be deported.
Or, perhaps, more pertinently, why not?
This individual was guilty of theft in the financial sector – a white-collar crime. So on the face of it, it doesn’t seem so bad. Not when you consider the violent crime committed by some people in his situation – the Somalian rapist being deported the other week whose deportation was prevented by so-called liberals who were more concerned about the criminal than they were about his victims. But, yes, why shouldn’t we deport undesirables? If they want to live here, obey our laws. Seems a reasonable enough bargain. And if they prefer not to enter into that bargain in good faith and think that the law is something that doesn’t apply to them, well, why not send them packing?
“This Home Office policy to deport people who have been here since childhood is destroying the fabric of our society,” he said. “So many people are saying that this policy is too draconian. Even City commentators are saying that.”
That’s some chutzpah, there. I don’t think that sending criminals packing is destroying the fabric of our society. Importing the buggers certainly is…
Adoboli has received unprecedented levels of support from 138 MPs and MSPs. Celebrities including the actor Naomie Harris and broadcaster June Sarpong, trade unionists including Len McCluskey, the general secretary of Unite, and Dave Prentice, the general secretary of Unison, as well as academics and business leaders have signed open letters to the home secretary calling for Adoboli to be allowed to remain in the UK.
Why? Because his crime was “victimless”? Because he seems a decent enough chap – apart from being a convicted criminal who stole billions?
In his letter, Javid said: “The public expects robust action to be taken against foreign nationals who abuse our hospitality by committing crime.”
And I cannot see anything to argue with here.
Victimless? What about the shareholders of UBS who watched him p*ss away a billion or so . Oh and dont forget the tax that would have been paid on those profits that couldn’t go to the welfare budget (partly to the Swiss I know but he was working in London so the loss of profit was in London so was the loss of tax). Plus the fine from the regulator – a couple of billion I think it was. Plus the cost of the remedial work to “make sure it never happens again”. I was there for two years helping to sort it out along with hundreds of others, none of us were doing it for free. Plus all of the operations and compliance staff who paid the price with their jobs.
PS last I heard he was on the lecture circuit charging for his story which was “it wasn’t my fault they should have stopped me”.
You did note the inverted commas?
Yep. Victimless is me driving/riding along an empty road at 150mph and not causing an RTA despite Brake etc saying “Speeding is a crime like Robbery”
Both of them can bloody well piss off.
Well, well. Adoboli supported by motley collection of serial crime-excusers, what a surprise. Deport Adoboli and forcibly put rest of them on same flight.
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May’s surrender agreement
14 November Draft Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community
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We already have quite enough British criminals, we don’t need any foreign ones. He could have applied for British citizenship (while he was “of good character”, i.e. before he was caught) but chose not to.
Where’s my tiny violin?
More or coming, May has agreed
The UK agrees not to prosecute EU employees who are or who might be deemed in future, criminals (Art.101)
…He has called on the Home Office to implement…:
Who is the idiot calling on the Home Office?
Ignore this:- written before I’d followed the link to The Graun.