Oh the irony! Crickey! Bonza! Fair dinkum, can you tell what it is yet, no this is a knife.
All positive Australian exports.
Then there’s the beer, and all the bar staff in West London. The occasional sportsman. Very occasional. Rolf Harris, Dame Edna. running a bit short now…oo Kylie, of course.
But poor old crim Clifford? Come off it you Aussies, get rid of the non- aussie crims first!!
Laughing stock I’m afraid. Seriously.
But, in the interests of a good story getting in the way of the truth – how’s it being reported over there?
Boadicea's Chariot 
He’s not an Australian and has obviously shown no sign of wanting to become one. Frankly, if the UK would follow a similar policy of deporting troublemakers the country would be a better place.
I wish our lot would deport our imported criminals, every second article down here starts “A Nigerian….” or “A Somali…” or “A Zimbabwe national…” or “A Chinese …”, I could go on but you get the picture.
Nobody wanted him deported but unfortunately our laws say that non-citizens who commit crimes must be deported after their release. He fell foul of our laws and is now paying the price.
41 years in Australia and he never chose to take up citizenship .. what a fool!
Yeah, he’s a scumbag, but he’s our scumbag. We should take responsibility for him. This is Aussie bureaucracy at its worst. We’re right – but we’re completely wrong! 😦
Bearsy:
You can keep him, we have enough scum of our own thanks 😦
And our whacko rules say we can’t deport the buggers after they serve their sentences in case their yooman rights are infringed 😦
After 41 years in Australia I think it is a bit rich to send the man back now, we could easily hold him back on those very same humanitarian grounds.
How likely is he to be able to make a living back in the UK at this time in his life, he’s better off back here and getting a job in a servo pumping petrol or something
He is a fool, but as Bearsy says, an Aussie fool. Nice to hear that you see the stupidity of the situation, I was expecting a different reaction I must say!
If he were in a similar situation here he wouldn’t be deported. A similar case happened a few years ago with a kid that killed a headmaster. He was technically Italian but never even been there. He served his sentence and on release has offended again. Our problem, not Italy’s.
However, in the debate over the UKBA and UK’s Immigration policy, oh boy have we got it wrong. £5000 cash given to overstayers to go home if they’re from Muslim countries, absurd. And yet a male from Zimbabwe who wants to go home and has no visa to be here isn’t deported because the UKBA doesn’t want to pay for the airfare.
FEEG and Christopher – our whacko rules are that if an IM3 form is served before the trial, any foreign national WILL be deported at the end of their sentence. Unless the country they’re from will persecute them. Combine this with the EAW, it’s a mess of contradictions.
I hope Clifford gets a good bar work job in Earls Court along with all the other aussies. 😀
‘Then there’s the beer, and all the bar staff in West London.’
There is a bit of an issue at the moment with all our South Africans knicking all our Australians’ pub jobs.
I have removed your two “grocers’ apostrophes”, OMG. Plurals don’t have apostrophes. Doh! 🙄
If Clifford came here as a child and hasn’t taken citizenship – then his parents probably didn’t either – well not while he was still a child, or he would almost certainly have been included on their application.
There was little incentive for the Brits to take Ozzie citizenship before 1984 since they were entitled to vote after six months residency here. So it does not surprise me that he never bothered to apply for citizenship. It would only have become a problem for him if he’d wanted to work in the Public Service in recent years.
I agree with Bearsy and Donald – he is an Ozzie problem.
At the moment we have a pile of jump-the-queue wannabe Ozzies rioting, absconding, and burning the detention centres where they are being held while their ‘claims to asylum’ are being dealt with. While I do have a bit of a problem with just how long some of these claims can take to process (but if one turns up without papers what does anyone expect?) I’d like to see every one of those who are refusing to abide by the rules here deported instantly… Bad enough that they have pushed themselves to the head of the queue of those who are trying to do it the right way, without proving that they are unwilling to abide by the rules when they get here.
… what she said … !! 😆