But to go back to Eagles' original question - why was there a riot about the murderer from Sudan but not the murderer from NI: the riots tend not to be about the crime itself, but about the poli… (View Post)

Well, effectively it is, because that’s what we have. It might be policy to wish it were otherwise, because government can’t think of a nice way of stopping it. If we were in a tank with water levels… (View Post)

In any case, I think the ‘roughly the same’ that Bondegezou points to might be a little misleading. This goes back again to the old chestnut about immigrants we wants (students from New Zealand/docto… (View Post)

Why should refugee status (and indeed ILR status) not be contingent on obeying the law? (View Post)

The Somali community in SS have, as you said, been there since the 19th Century, and have had several generations to adjust to British culture. Those arriving now from Somalia, less so. (View Post)