There was both good news and bad news for Britain this week. First the bad news; the (alleged) terrorist, Islamist, racist, fascist, supremacist and (self-declared) leader of Al Qaeda in Europe, Abu Qatada, has effectively been given leave to remain in Britain permanently by the Court of Appeal. Qatada, who has called for the killing of the wives and children of policemen in Egypt, has already been convicted of terrorist offences in his native Jordan, so you might think it was perfectly reasonable for our Government to deport him at Jordan’s request? Alas no, you see Jordan has a reputation for indulging in a little bit of torture to ease the passage of justice, which means a great deal of hand-wringing all round. Although the British Government obtained a written guarantee from Jordan that Qatada would not be tortured, the Court of Appeal ruled that his deportation would breach the Human Rights Act. So it seems that sometime soon Abu Qatada will again be free to preach to Muslims about the inferiority of the sub-human Kaffir; there’s something ironic there, I just can’t place my finger on it . . . .

So what’s the good news you may well ask? Well it’s one in the eye for the permanently outraged uber-PC brigades who are indignant that we may be infringing the civil rights of repulsive, murderous fascists. Now it’s clear that the concept of an independent judiciary is still alive and well in the country of its birth, perhaps Shami Chakrabarti et al will take their indignation to Jordan and other countries that practice, ahem, a less than transparent legal system. Perhaps they may also stop judging the West against unimpeachably high levels of morality whilst encouraging ‘liberation’ groups to indulge in murder, torture and terrorism.

Personally I’d be happy to see Abu Qatada deported to a lifetime of imprisonment in a Jordanian prison, I certainly wouldn’t loose any sleep over what may await him there. As far as I’m concerned he lost his right to asylum in the UK when he (allegedly) advocated the murder of British citizens. The fact that a monster like Qatada gained asylum in the UK using forged papers and was then allowed to preach hatred for ten years whilst we continued to deport Zimabwean democracy activists, is a terrible inditement of our asylum system.

That’s the society we live in then, we don’t mind hosting a man who preaches hatred and violence towards us, as long as we don’t infringe his civil liberties. How British is that?