Asylum Seekers - They get worse

[Chester]

Click on the picture for the story

As was quoted in the 1st episode of 'Phoenix Nights' by the lead singer of the folk band

"Send the buggers back"

[Jason The Argonaut]

The link did not work mate !

Asylum seekers eat swans'
4 July 2003

A major investigation has been launched by Scotland Yard into claims that the Queen’s swans are being stolen in their hundreds by gangs of asylum-seekers who are cooking and eating them.

The birds, which belong to the Crown under an ancient charter and are also protected by the Wildlife and Countryside Act, are a common sight on the capital’s ponds and rivers — but their numbers have plummeted recently.

An official Metropolitan Police report said east European poachers were luring the royal birds into baited traps then eating them. The probe comes after a group of men were caught red-handed by police in an east London park.

The asylum seekers were barbecuing a duck and officers found two dead swans, ready to be roasted, concealed in bags.

Steve Knight, of the Surrey-based Swan Sanctuary, said: “Stealing swans is becoming a serious problem.

“It is happening mainly around London, but we have also had reports from Wiltshire, Hertfordshire and Essex.

Sadly, it seems that some people coming into this country have been ignoring our custom of leaving these beautiful birds alone,” he told The Sun.

It has been illegal to injure or kill swans in Britain for hundreds of years — the offence carries a £5,000 fine or six months in jail. But to eastern Europeans they are a perfectly acceptable delicacy.

A police spokesman said today: “We are appealing for information over the disappearance of swans. There have been incidents of swans being killed, and it appears to be the work of eastern European gangs.”

In Enfield, police and a wildlife liaison officer are patrolling the River Lee after swans there disappeared.

A police statement said: “The local community say the swan population has decreased considerably.”

Each July the swans are rounded up and counted during the “swan upping” ceremony on the Thames.

A spokesman for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said: “There has been a drop in the number of swans in the River Thames, and there is a suggestion they are being stolen.

“It seems there may be a connection with people from eastern Europe.” Britain has 30,000 of the birds, the most common species being the mute swan. They typically weigh about 20Ib and are white with black legs, although there are seven different varieties and some are completely black.

They can live to the age of 35, but rarely survive beyond 10.

Roasted swan was a favourite dish of King Henry VIII. The birds were kept specially for eating then served at banquets decorated with a gold crown.

Makes me f@#k sick, what more needs to happen before the government gets of its arse and sort this problem out once and for all.

[Sisyphus]

Couldn't agree more. Get Bernard Matthews involved. We'll soon be eating swan for Sunday lunch for less than the price of beef. Never could understand why only the privileged few could eat the things.

[spitz]

The laws protecting Swans goes back to the 'Act of Swans' which came into force in 1482. It’s going to be interesting to see what punishment these people get if this story is true, in 1482 their heads would be on pikes outside Traitor's Gate no doubt. I doubt they’ll even be deported.

Never could understand why only the privileged few could eat the things.

Apparently they’re bloody horrible.

The eating of swan has, however, for the most part become unpopular. As far back as 1738, swan’s flesh was described as "blacker, harder, and tougher than that of a goose, having grosser Fibres hard of Digestion, of a bad melancholic Juice. . ." (As quoted in Peter Scott, The Swans: Boston, 1974, p. 174).

[Chester]

The link did not work mate !

Sorted now, not that there was much point

[Oakers]

L96, crate of rounds and dig in. There's your answer

[voodoo sprout]

I don't think this is as bad as many things in this issue, it's probably a case of lack of cultural and social awareness; however it is still a crime so at least they will get stopped.

[Oakers]

Sprout,
that's a peculiar phot you have on your profile, what are you up to there?

[Chester]

I think those caught should be publicly birched

[Spannerman]

Asylum Seekers, Illegral Immigrants, Economic Migrants ad nauseam

The above subject is a very emotive one, so much so that it is on most peoples lips in this country whether you are in a bar, at a soccer match or just talking to friends, and further it is about time that the flood was reduced to a mere trickle of those most deserving of our help.

This Government has no policy towards this problem, it has no idea what to do with them or how to thwart their entry to the UK, isn't it about time that someone has the guts to stand up and be counted otherwise the flood gates for voting in the BNP will open and all hell will be let loose.

The way things stand at the moment, that is whom I will be voting for the next time round if someone doesn't buck up their ideas!

I belong to the RSPB, Elliot Morley MP and his cronies are wanting to cull the species Ruddy Duck in the UK as they are cross breeding with a similar endangered species in Southern Spain, most RSPB members are set against this idea but if the Government win the day then give these East Europeans one Ruddy Duck each and a one way ticket to Tallin!

[lew]

AHRRRRR I F"@KING HATE THOSE BASTARDS why cant they bugger off home!!! We don’t want them here. One swan is worth more than ten of w**kas if I catch them trying to kill a swan ill killem and dump them in the river and I don’t care if I get caught!!! I think its about time we have someone with back bone get elected. And have military guards at every port with orders to shoot if they try and get in...


lew

[Jason The Argonaut]

This Government has no policy towards this problem, it has no idea what to do with them or how to thwart their entry to the UK, isn't it about time that someone has the guts to stand up and be counted otherwise the flood gates for voting in the BNP will open and all hell will be let loose.

You are right there Spannerman, if things keep going the way they are i see the BNP getting stronger and stronger.

AHRRRRR I F"@KING HATE THOSE BASTARDS why cant they bugger off home!!! We don’t want them here. One swan is worth more than ten of w**kas if I catch them trying to kill a swan ill killem and dump them in the river and I don’t care if I get caught!!! I think its about time we have someone with back bone get elected. And have military guards at every port with orders to shoot if they try and get in.

Lew if you run for government bruv, you got my bloody vote mate no problem. It seems every day I read the paper you see some f@#k ass hole, complaining about the free house they got, or now they are eating our f@#k birds, who the hell do they think they are ?

These people have no respect at all.

[lew]

Thanks for the support Jason any chance of an alibi then I don’t like what the bnp are or what they stand for, but they seem to be the only people with the balls to sort this mess out it has got worse lately where some of my friends live, I now carry a baseball bat in my car door just in case I’m not sure if there pikies or imgrants but either way ill be beating the ever living shit out of them if they have a go...


lew

[Rod Spinks]

There was a good saying in the Corp's when I was in and it was "The only good Wog is a dead one" and Enoch Powells words are slowly coming true that the streets of England one day will be flowing with blood.Now that Iraq and Saddham (supposily dead) and next to no detterant send the B----ds back.We are overun here in Ipswich, the next goverment that should be elected is the one to rid England of ALL of them.BNP for me anytime.
Aye
Rod

[Jason The Argonaut]

I don’t like what the bnp are or what they stand for

Same here, but as you said they seem to be the only party that will tackle the problem head on. I just hope that another party starts to take this situation seriously because Tony and his gang have not got a clue.

Tony