QATADA OUT, MAY IN ?

Abu Qatada has finally been sent packing.

 

This man, who had no right to be in the UK and is fanatically opposed the British way of life, was arrested in 2001 over alleged terrorist connections. Our government first began deportation proceedings 8 years ago but was repeatedly stymied by the horrors of 'human rights' legislation and the European Court of Human Rights. Why all this fire power was brought to the assistance of a man who appears to have no belief in the human rights of others is a question worthy of debate though the answers will reveal nothing other than the idiocy of namby-pamby liberal-minded socialist policy.

 

Qatada has now been despatched to his home country of Jordan where he can expect to stand trial on a number of terror-related charges. While it has been agreed that he will be well treated while in custody there, and that no evidence obtained by torture will be employed against him, one has to suspect that he is unlikely to be set free anytime soon; in fact, he may well spend the rest of his life in prison and, once convicted, his captors may feel themselves freed from their current obligation to treat him with kid gloves.

 

The winners out of this sorry saga are the people of the UK and Home Secretary Theresa May. May has succeeded where several predecessors failed and has brought to a conclusion a drain on resources that has cost UK taxpayers a sum approaching £2m.; by achieving this, she has also raised her own standing within her party and improved her chances of replacing the egregious Cameroon when he is finally kicked out.

 

Now there's a thought. Perhaps May could get the Jordanians to take Cameroon off of our hands too; achieve that and she'd be a shoo-in as next Tory leader !