Oh, the irony!

[Gittins Gal]

At the immigration desk Sunday evening:

"How long have you been living in UK?"

I'd have thought you'd need to be born and bred in the UK to do that job, not some Johnny-Come-Lately.

Then again, what do they actually do? They're just drones really.

Still, it didn't half stick in my craw.

[sasguru]

Did they ask why your passport picture was of a woman when you're clearly a bloke?

How did you know they weren't "born and bred" in the UK?

[MicrosoftBob]

Did they ask why your passport picture was of a woman when you're clearly a bloke?

How did you know they weren't "born and bred" in the UK?

Fished in!

[sasguru]

Fished in!

No, merely a teasing nibble

[Gittins Gal]

Did they ask why your passport picture was of a woman when you're clearly a bloke?

How did you know they weren't "born and bred" in the UK?

Ignoring your initial comment, I guess he could have been born in the UK, but this fact would be completely belied by the aplomb with which he could take off the Michael Bates character on It Ain't Half Hot Mum.

[vetran]

Ignoring your initial comment, I guess he could have been born in the UK, but this fact would be completely belied by the aplomb with which he could take off the Michael Bates character on It Ain't Half Hot Mum.

bloomin racist, why shouldn't all of our immigration officers be recently arrived immigrants?

[MicrosoftBob]

bloomin racist, why shouldn't all of our immigration officers be recently arrived immigrants?

I know, next thing people will be complaining about convicted terrorists making immigration decisions at the Home Office

[craig1]

bloomin racist, why shouldn't all of our immigration officers be recently arrived immigrants?

Give the job to asylum seekers in the process of having their cases decided and tell them they get points towards citizenship for every dodgy person they catch. Poacher turned gamekeeper and all that stuff...

[xoggoth]

Most illegal immigration is assisted and facilitated by those who were themselves migrants or are of the same ethnicity but hey, let's not let facts intrude.

[mos]

Give the job to asylum seekers in the process of having their cases decided and tell them they get points towards citizenship for every dodgy person they catch. Poacher turned gamekeeper and all that stuff...

Not if the asylum seekers are implanted with the explicit aim to game the system ....