Thursday 18 December 2014

Depends On How You Define ‘A Happy End’, I Suppose…

After two months of living in limbo in Calais and half a day hanging inches from death, Ahmed Osman must have felt that his 3,000-mile journey from Eritrea to join his older brother Jamal on English soil had finally come to a happy end.
Well, in a way, it did, especially if you ask the poor bloody taxpayer…
At Kings Lynn County Court, police investigators said no blame could be attached to the coach driver, Mr Evans.
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Checks on the vehicle at Calais by British border officials had also failed to find any sign of Ahmed hidden in the bowels of the coach.
Keeping our borders safe, there, lads!
An Eritrean friend, who declined to be named, said: “We all come here for the same purpose - to leave behind a terrible war, a terrible place for somewhere safe where we can live with peace and respect. That is all we seek and, as you can see, we will take any risk to achieve it.”
But you were presumably safe the minute you left. Why travel through all those European countries to get to the UK?

One might think it wasn’t ‘peace and respect’ you were really looking for at all, but rather something else…
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6 comments:

  1. James Higham18 December 2014 at 13:55

    Meanwhile, we have our life and death struggle with Yodel.

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  2. Twenty_Rothmans18 December 2014 at 18:34

    If he thought he was escaping murderous Africans, he has another thing coming.

    My ancestors fought to give me a clean and decent place to live (although it's a bit scruffy now). These dirty shitholes like Eritrea were the only places to ever experience war and poverty?

    But none of that for Ahmed - he preferred the idea of somebody else paying for it.

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  3. Thud18 December 2014 at 23:21

    Roadkill would have been a nice outcome.

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  4. Anonymous19 December 2014 at 00:14

    Surely we paid Stain Bob Goboff to sort Africa out back in the 80's ?

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  5. Rickie19 December 2014 at 02:52

    I know a Thai massage lady who does a happy ending

    "Happy ending sir"

    Rickie

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  6. JuliaM23 December 2014 at 06:58

    "Meanwhile, we have our life and death struggle with Yodel."

    I've always found them rather good!

    "But none of that for Ahmed - he preferred the idea of somebody else paying for it."

    Just so.

    "Surely we paid Stain Bob Goboff to sort Africa out back in the 80's ?"

    He did as good a job as he did bringing up his daughters.

    "I know a Thai massage lady who does a happy ending"

    I bet you do...

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