https://xcancel.com/BernoulliDefect/status/1940723449225531744#m
>Thinking about Kweku Adoboli, a rogue trader that lost UBS $2B, subsequently deported to Ghana in 2018
>It’s telling who the British government pushes to leave (non-violent, smart, ran remorseful talks on his mistakes) vs who it protects - most recently the convicted rapist “AA”
>Adoboli had strong links to the UK, arriving in 1991 at 12, becoming head boy in his school, attending the University of Nottingham, and having a British partner. He was entitled to British citizenship yet never applied
>Physically harmless and would have made a fine neighbour
>“AA”, on the other hand, was convicted and served time for raping a sleeping woman yet spared automatic deportation due to a fear of persecution that he (a bisexual man) would receive on returning to Jamaica
>The judgment makes sense given current rules, but does make me wonder
>The philosophical underpinnings of Britain’s rights based migration & deportation systems are very strong, but caring less about wider social outcomes comes at a price that intensifies with scale
>A town with one AA may be fine, but one with 1,000 may be unliveable
>Similarly, removing one Adoboli may be a stern but fair enforcing of the rules, but removing 100,000 net contributors may leave some holes in the budget
>FWIW, I don’t believe Adoboli was treated properly.
I think I remember that case, honestly they should have let him stay, and maybe even made him chancellor