Wednesday 16 June 2010

Ummm, No, Actually, There’s Just The One Rule…

“There is one rule for people who are born in this country and another rule for immigrants,” said Hanson.
And that rule is ‘Thou shalt not steal’…
Queen Hanson set up 26 bank accounts to siphon cash from a range of hand-outs while stacking shelves in a supermarket.

The failed asylum seeker was jailed for eight months last year after a court heard she used false identities to get into the UK, work illegally and dishonestly claim benefits.

Local authority investigators found she had salted away the six figure sum in a range of bank accounts.
/facepalm
Hanson – also known as Adesuwa Ojo-Osagie – was born in Sierra Leone and grew up in Nigeria. She came to Britain in the late 1990s and immediately applied for asylum. The application was turned down in 2001 but she was allowed to stay.

Her husband joined her in 2004 and later got a job with the Royal Mail. But she didn’t tell the authorities his extra wage was coming into her household. His visa has also been revoked after it was established that it was obtained under false pretences.
And this woman thinks she’s the one who has been hard done by?

5 comments:

Umbongo said...

JuliaM - let me make a prediction. Queen Hanson will not be deported. There will be endless appeals funded by you, me and other taxpayers. In the end, even if the process ends with a definitive court order, since it will be deemed that the process has taken too long, she (and her husband and any other relatives) will be allowed to stay, sucking up benefits for the rest of her and their miserable lives.

lenko said...

You astound me. Before I retired I was financial director of a large group of companies. Round about 2002, we wanted to open a new (company) account with Barclays. After much form-filling and answering question after question (to comply with money-laundering regulations), six months had slipped by.

This was a company which had existed for years, had a great track record, and directors personally known to the Bank. Six months!

Wish I had known Queen Hanson -- she would have done it for us within the week. And made it look easy.

Anonymous said...

We have long been a charitable and fair people. Many of us try very hard to lose or overwrite inherent racism. Many of us go out of our way to show our justice, charity and compassion.

Commonsense was lost when we began to take our virtues to extremes. Taking charity far from these shores signalled our own readiness for the Asylum.

Angry Exile said...

Beaten to it by Umbongo. All she has to do is claim the strong sunlight gives her headaches or something and she's not going to be going anywhere.

JuliaM said...

"...let me make a prediction. Queen Hanson will not be deported."

Sadly, that's not a bet I'd take. Even the open and shut cases seem to languish in the system forever.

"Wish I had known Queen Hanson -- she would have done it for us within the week. And made it look easy."

It never fails to astound me, when these cases are in court, just how easy it seems to be...

"Commonsense was lost when we began to take our virtues to extremes."

Indeed.

And that makes it more likely, not less, that the pendulum will swing to the other extreme...