Monday, 13 February 2012

Fun Online Polls: Chris Huhne, deportation, extradition

With a high turnout, the results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows:

One a scale of 1 to 10, how chucklesome did you find Chris Huhne's resignation?

11/10 - 78%

10/10 - 8%
9/10 - 5%
Other, please specify - 10%.


I thought the whole thing was splendid, it cheered me up no end, largely because the whole thing was so pathetic. Thank you to everybody who took part.
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There is of course a subtle difference between deporting somebody and extraditing somebody. You deport a foreign national back to his own country if you don't like him (whether he has committed a crime, here or aborad, or not). You extradite somebody (usually but not necessarily one of your own citizens) to another country if they have committed a crime in that other country.

But let's gloss over that. To the person concerned it doesn't make much difference what you call it. I see that the Yanks are taking the piss yet again, so this week's Fun Online Poll is a "court of public opinion" and you are judge, jury and executioner.

Vote here or use the widget in the side bar; it's multiple choice so you can send off as few or as many of them as you'd like.

1 comments:

Bayard said...

"I see that the Yanks are taking the piss yet again"

Yes, that's why they keep all those military bases in the UK, so they can.