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.

Why? Just Why?

Phil Woolas (y'know, the immigration minister) has spoken out after it was revealed that foreign criminals have won £500,000 compensation for being kept in prison past their release date (usually about 2 weeks after they were sent there).

He said, "We do not apologise for our tough system, but where the courts tell us that we have detained a criminal for too long, we are bound to accept their decision.” 'Tough system'? 'Tough system'!? What kind of 'tough system' sends an Islamic radical such as Abu Qatada to jail for life then bails him out on home arrest whilst letting him roam the streets for two hours a day!? What kind of 'tough system' keeps him on benefits (not my money yet, thankfully) whilst he is wanted in Belgium, Algeria, Spain, France, Germany, Jordan, Italy and the United States, and preaches for the destruction of the very system that is keeping him alive!?

Why can't we bring back the death penalty for scum like this and fry him before he turns more of our own people against us?