Trenton Oldfield, the boat race disruptor

He 'hurt' a national event. If one of the boat hulls had hit him, he might have been killed. The boat might have been holed and the rowers put in danger. The speed those boats go is phenomenal, given that they are only powered by human muscle. Just look at some footage and see the wake of the motor boats following.

Seems there is a new agreement to try and get rid of Abu Qatada.

Who's guessing his appeal will succeed anyway? It might be just a warning to other potential troublemakers.

#floundering

Think what you like. You will anyway

I know.

I guess if people are guests of our government and they break the law, then it is not unreasonable to terminate their welcome once they have served their sentence. If a guest came to your house and committed an offence under your roof would you want them to come to stay again, the minute they got out of prison? No persona non grata.

Meant to put a comma after the no. as in: No, persona non grata.

Guests of our government? Did they put him up at No 10?

Do stop trivialising, jings! jess used a figure of speech.

Did she? Passed me by.

I'm not trivializing this case. Just some of the recent posts.

I know you know what a metaphor is jo.
I wouldn't expect to be able to go to another country, have a one woman protest about something that disrupted one of their national traditional events and not be asked to leave. Would not expect to be welcome there ever again. Would you?
A visa is not a right - it is at the discretion of the host country.

It just doesn't seem consistent with other cases though

What other cases?

That stretch of river is extremely dangerous (cross currents); people have drowned. Maybe they should have let him do so too. I agree that we have too many home grown clots to want one of Australia's as well.