http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/23/boat-race-protester-trenton-oldfield-ordered-leave-uk

Australian Trenton Oldfield, after serving a six-month jail sentence for disrupting the Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race, has been ordered to leave Britain. He has lived there for ten years. His wife Deepa is expecting a child.

Clearly, you may preach terrorism in Britain, but the Boat Race is sacrosanct.

Amazing.

I remember Bertie Wooster got a weekend in gaol for pinching a copper's helmet on Boat Race Day. Seems they've toughened up the sentencing. Extremely harsh, what?

I remember Bertie Wooster got a weekend in gaol for pinching a copper's helmet on Boat Race Day. Seems they've toughened up the sentencing. Extremely harsh, what?

Pinching coppers' helmets was largely condoned. Boys will be boys, don't you know?

Jolly good show!

Remember, Cambridge won that year, so all else was right with the world - just this anti-elitist pillock who went for a swim at the wrong time and in the wrong place.

And later this summer we'll be sending lots more Aussies home with their tails between their legs.

(Actually, I can't remember where he came from, but as he's an idiot I naturally thought of Australia first. )

This guy was interviewed on late-night TV last night, together with his wife.

He is an idiot. He is also Australian. The two are not synonymous normally, but in this case the guy was absolutely unable to express himself coherently, although he was given every chance by the Newsnight interviewer.

He is appealing against the deportation order as he claims to be studying for a PhD at LSE (you know, the place that accepted a large contribution from Muammar Gaddaffi before he was so cruelly murdered by the Islamist fanatics who have taken over in Libya with the assistance of the British and French governments).

Anyway, if you are in the UK the BBC iPlayer will probably allow you to see the last part of the programme, where he is explaining his anti-elitist thinking. And studying for a PhD is not elitist?

Unfortunately the man can hardly string two words together, but is maybe better when writing it down. Certainly I would not want him on my side in any meeting - he cannot verbalise his ideas at all. Deserves to be deported.

People should be judged according to their deeds, not their opinions.

He's being deported for criminal disruption of a sporting event, not for his views on Western civilisation, jihad, or elitism.

If he was that bothered about his studies and his children, perhaps he should've kept his beak clean

SC

Was the person teaching terrorism convicted of any offence? And was capable of being deported? The Aussie I presume was on some form of visa that he breached when he committed a criminal act and so quite rightly should be deported. However, he will probably appeal under some article of the human rights act ( 7 I think ) the right to a family life, and Australia being so dangerous a place it will be granted, no matter we are deporting people back to Somalia.