"those Who Come To The Uk Must Abide By Our Laws." A Home Office Spokesman Said.

[Orderlimit]

The protester jailed for disrupting the 2012 Oxford-Cambridge boat race has been ordered to leave the UK.

Trenton Oldfield, 37, has been told by the Home Office his presence in the country would not be "conducive to the public good", reports the Guardian.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/23/boat-race-protester-trenton-oldfield-ordered-leave-uk

[sandyRoe]

Has Qatada actually broken any laws here?

[jno]

as Gromit has pointed out, he has more than just a cat, he has a British wife. That's why this seems such a pointless exercise. He's already spent two months in Wormwood Scrubs, which is reidiculous in itself. He works here as a highly skilled migrant, he pays tax here, and all he's done is upset a boat race. Seems to me he's contributing more than he's costing, which is the sort of person the country needs.

[craft1948]

What's with all this elitist rubbish. I was taught tennis at my grammar school, and also my youth club.
My brother's school had their rowing club just up the river from our school's hockey pitch.

[jno]

is that still the case, though, craft? These sound like the sort of facilities that were sold off in the 80s

[chrisgel]

1966 The best year ever for music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpDjbul0WyE

[chrisgel]

^^Ooops sorry wrong thread.

[Gromit]

How dis-interested are the audience at the beginning of that clip. Not sure it supports your contestion that this was the best year for music. That wS 1978 obviously. ;-)

[jno]

they were probably stunned by the poor quality of lip-synching, as that's obviously the recorded version playing. Yes, somewhere round 1965-66 was IT.

[Gromit]

TotP recorded Dickinson Road, Manchester.

Before any of this "no one will go to Manchester to be recorded" ***.

I think the dreary looking blonde girl is my aunty.

[jno]

ah, they were probably playing the record in London, then, and everyone was straining to hear it crackling down the wires.

That was probably a lively night out in Manchester in them days. All round to mine for a nice glass of water afterwards.

Last I heard of Farlowe he ran a "war memorabilia shop", which the report hinted was a euphemism for "neo-Nazi". No idea if that's true, though.

Sorry, Orderlimit, going a bit off-topic there. But I've already recorded my opinion on the unfortunate Mr Oldfield. Did he sing Moonlight Shadow on TotP?

[chrisgel]

Gromit -//TotP recorded Dickinson Road, Manchester.// - Yes in a dis-used church. TOTP was always like that. It was because of the crew moving kids around with cattle prods.

[chrisgel]

1978 Ah yes the year of Brian & Michael - Matchstalk Men & Matchstalk Cats & Dogs and Father Abraham & The Smurfs.
You really put me in my place there Gromit.
Sorry about posting on this thread Orderlimit

[mushroom25]

Steve.5, all sport can be described as "elitist", if by that it's meant that certain classes of society are excluded from participation, or watching.

at manchester united next year, you'll pay between £41 and £53 for a stand ticket at a premier league game, and £13 each for your kids. For a family of 4 that's at least £108 for one afternoon's entertainment.

can you honestly say that for an ordinary citizen living in moss-side, that that isn't "elitist"?

[emmie]

if his presence isn't wanted what about all the other undesirables, plenty of those they could get rid of first. Rowing may see elitist to some, tennis however is for anyone, it only gets expensive if you are any good, coaching, and getting to venues. And if you are any good there are scholarships in pretty much the same way you can get into uni.

[emmie]

i think there should be big signs up at all entry points into the UK, behave yourself or you are out, it won't happen of course, mores the pity for the lowlifes we have inherited.

[Brinjal]

Bashar al Assad has a British wife. Can he come and live in Uk?

[FredPuli43]

Oh , I do hope he does come to live here!

On scholarships for sport: not, strictly a scholarship, in that he didn't have to apply to get in via some test, but we never had to pay for our son's education at Reed's, a Public School in Surrey, because, at 13, he was adjudged a talented singer. He got excused some lessons and was given professional tuition throughout his time there out of class. A boy a year older had similar treatment and benefit to his parents, because he was good at tennis. His name is Tim Henman. The middle class get all the luck, don't they?

[emmie]

i rather think they have a point.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-prefers-assad-to-islamist-rebels/

[emmie]

he did live here for a time, whilst studying

Al-Assad graduated from the medical school of the University of Damascus in 1988, and started to work as a physician in the army. Four years later, he attended postgraduate studies at the Western Eye Hospital, in London, specializing in ophthalmology. In 1994, after his elder brother Bassel, the heir apparent to their father, was killed in a car crash, Bashar was hastily recalled to Syria to take over Bassel's role. He entered the military academy, and took charge of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon in 1998. In December 2000, Assad married Asma Assad, née Akhras. Al-Assad was elected as President of Syria in 2000 and 2007, unopposed each