Can someone from the UK confirm this please.
What happened?
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Can someone from the UK confirm this please.
What happened?
Reinvent the British and you get a global finance center, edible food and better service. Reinvent the French and you may just get more Germans.
Ik hou van ferme grieten en dikke pintenOriginally Posted by Evil_Maniac From Mars
Down with dried flowers!
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hmmm.
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It is a Onion parody, trying to say Cameron is the new heir to Blair.
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I thought is was a parody of us (U.S.). I doubt even half of the population knows who (the greatest PM ever) Gordon Brown is.
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Reinvent the British and you get a global finance center, edible food and better service. Reinvent the French and you may just get more Germans.
Ik hou van ferme grieten en dikke pinten
Down with dried flowers!
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Ambassadorial crime sprees: foreign embassy staff exempted from charges
Officials and dependents in UK have got off scot-free from 78 charges due to diplomatic immunity
Just thought this was funny. (Clickable)They have been caught shoplifting and drink-driving, been accused of robbery and human trafficking, and two notable "offenders" each owe £3m in congestion charge fines. But instead of facing the full weight of the law this privileged group have got off scot-free.
Foreign embassy staff been exempted from a range of serious charges that in normal cases would have carried a penalty of at least 12 months in prison, according to figures released in parliament today.
Five diplomats have escaped shoplifting charges since 2005, including an official from the Gambian embassy caught last year, a staffer at the Cameroonian embassy in 2008, and one member of each of the Egyptian, Equatorial Guinean and Zambian embassies accused in 2005.
But perhaps the single biggest offender – albeit on less serious allegations – is the US, which has run up £3,821,880 in unpaid fines incurred in a seven-year diplomatic stand-off over the congestion charge.
There are 25,000 embassy staff and their dependents in the UK covered by diplomatic immunity: over the past five years there were 78 exemptions from serious charges.
One member from each of the Brazilian, German, US and Russian embassies were caught drink-driving but released without charge this year.
Diplomats or their dependents from Saudi Arabia and one from Sierra Leone were alleged to have been involved in human trafficking, and one from Saudi Arabia was accused of sexual assault.
A member of the Pakistan embassy was accused of threatening to kill, and one from Cameroon accused of neglect of a young person.
Embassy staff in London from more than 57 countries have clocked up £534,060 in unpaid parking tickets and minor traffic offences in 2009.
Between 2005 and 2009 police made eight requests to the government for immunity to be waived, all of which were declined, a foreign office spokesman said. In four cases the embassy involved subsequently informed the Foreign Office that the accused individual had been withdrawn.
The US embassy has dug in its heels over the congestion charge, claiming it is a tax and therefore that its diplomats are immune. Russia also owes Transport for London £3,204,990.
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Ancient news, sorry.
It would have been funnier if you could find UK diplomat's abuses. This just makes everyone else look bad.
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3 million quid? A few more decades of this and we'll be talking REAL money.....
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Hmm. Perhaps we should introduce incredibly punitive fines for those who don't pay congestion charges within three years. Let those build up for a while, then present the bill to the US. We'll have the deficit paid out of the US treasury in no time!
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Except for the little fact that it's illegal to tax foreign missions. Those pesky things laws eh?
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And there's the rub. We say they're not taxes, and therefore should be paid. They think differently.
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