Cugel wrote: ↑11 Sep 2024, 10:39am
ANTONISH wrote: ↑11 Sep 2024, 9:53am
Cugel wrote: ↑10 Sep 2024, 11:18am
This incident has nothing to do with cycling, does it? The dafty is being dangerous to others in myriad ways.
It's a handy report to hang some xenophobia on though, eh?
Usual cheap shot Cugel.
Yes he is a danger to others.
He is a criminal of which we have plenty of home grown - we don't need more.
As he comes from another safe country he can be deported.
Probably saving the British taxpayer a great deal of money as I would guess he will rack up plenty of prison time over the next few years.
This thread was titled Electric motorcycle menace - I didn't cause the thread drift by posting a video of this idiot.
Did you know that a nation state is a made-up thing, defined originally by mad blokes intent on becoming king so they could have bigger fights with other kings, employing "patriots" as sword-fodder? Of course, every one of these made-up modern big-tribes has nice and nasty folk, with associated nice & nasty national traditions, institutions and power-holders. Ours tends to the nasty, really.
Did you know also that just about everyone in Britain is an offspring of immigrants? Some of the nastier ones become quite high in the social class structures of their adopted nation-state. They often do rather more damage to it than a yob on an illegal e-bike can manage. Consider the Turkish immigrant origins of Bojo the Klown, for example. Why did no one send his forbears back? Probably the Big Bungs they brought and dished out.
Myself, I have an Irish father (although he was of the posher sort albeit I never knew him) and a German great grandfather. If I ride me bike on the pavement do you think I should be deported?
Where do your own forebears hail from, by the way?
As I've mentioned before on this platform my mother was Irish - actually born a British citizen in 1913 - of course that changed to Irish nationality subsequently - officialdom won't accept that my mother's nationality at birth was British.
I know that the various countries in the UK were brought together by coercion. We are still to some extent ruled by adherents of William the Conqueror - other epithets are available.
However the UK as it is now, is a collective endeavour, perhaps brought together by chance but having collective laws and institutions
(Scotland has some different laws and institutions but is still part of the UK)- basically it is owned by it's residents (well some of them have a much larger share).
It has defined boundaries, its citizens of all origins cultures and creeds have certain rights.
The right of residence doesn't extend to everyone on the planet - and to get back to this individual - we don't need him and we have a legal route to his removal - which I would support.