Attack in Forbury gardens (Reading)

[Bill Walker]

My son is going through the process or getting Australian Citizenship. he knows cannot break the law or he will be booted out (he doesn't anyway !), he is even concerned about traffic offences or anything that might give them cause. The process is deliberately dragged out for years, it is a great way of making people behave. Perhaps we should be a little less tolerant.

I'll put a word in for him...

 

[Blue Mist]

I'll put a word in for him...

If you would, he says they deliberately string it out to fleece you for money, in his words everything in the aussie system is designed for that purpose, traffic fines (demerits) especially.

Actually, from when I started typing to when I finished I have changed my mind, ergh best you don't put a word in for him, I would like him to stay.

 

[Bill Walker]

If you would, he says they deliberately string it out to fleece you for money, in his words everything in the aussie system is designed for that purpose, traffic fines (demerits) especially.

Actually, from when I started typing to when I finished I have changed my mind, ergh best you don't put a word in for him, I would like him to stay.

I'm proud I've never had a traffic fine in 34 years of being here.
No fines at all. I always drive at the speed limit. I'm a good boy.
Is he living here ?

 

[Blue Mist]

I'm proud I've never had a traffic fine in 34 years of being here.
No fines at all. I always drive at the speed limit. I'm a good boy.
Is he living here ?

Yes, he was wandering the world, met an aussie (Brazilian naturalised) on some island, went back with her and 3 years later they are married and the first child is a few days off. He has all but got his full status but they keep him hanging on to make him behave.

 

[M18CTID]

The caveat I'd put to that is that they should serve a decent part of their sentence in the UK first so the victims know that they've not just flown abroad and been released.

I think the last figures I seen, the deportation numberd had nearly halved over the past 5 years so hopefully Patel will put in place laws to weed out the foreign criminals from this country.

I think that’s a good point. I’m all for deporting foreign nationals who commit crimes back to their own countries but do they end up walking free In their homeland or do they serve their sentence in full? I’m guessing we don’t have a say in that.

And that one works both ways of course - not long after Michael Shields was transferred from a Bulgarian prison to a British one, Jack Straw pardoned him.

 

[andyhinch]

My son is going through the process or getting Australian Citizenship. he knows cannot break the law or he will be booted out (he doesn't anyway !), he is even concerned about traffic offences or anything that might give them cause. The process is deliberately dragged out for years, it is a great way of making people behave. Perhaps we should be a little less tolerant.

I miss the good old days, you broke the law and they sent you there for free :-)

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

I think that’s a good point. I’m all for deporting foreign nationals who commit crimes back to their own countries but do they end up walking free In their homeland or do they serve their sentence in full? I’m guessing we don’t have a say in that.

And that one works both ways of course - not long after Michael Shields was transferred from a Bulgarian prison to a British one, Jack Straw pardoned him.

They serve the sentence first and then go through the deportation stuff

 

[Blue Mist]

I miss the good old days, you broke the law and they sent you there for free :-)

and yet if you mention that to them they get all angry. talk about rewriting history !!