Began reading A Bear Called Paddington to my daughter last night.
Mrs Brown bent down. “You’re a very small bear,” she said.
The bear puffed out its chest. “I’m a very rare sort of bear,” he replied importantly. “There aren’t many of us left where I come from.”
“And where is that?” asked Mrs Brown.
The bear looked round carefully before replying. “Darkest Peru.”
“You don’t mean to say you’ve come all the way from South America by yourself?” exclaimed Mrs Brown.
The bear nodded. “Aunt Lucy always said she wanted me to emigrate when I was old enough.
That’s why she taught me to speak English.”
Which brings to mind a recent statement from Prime Minister David Cameron to illegal immigrants:
We will find you and make sure you are sent back to the country you came from.
An excellent plot line for the 2015 Paddington movie?
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@cblatts @naunihalpublic well, Lima is gray a good deal of the year.
High on the list of things I did not remember about Paddington Bear http://t.co/8P6Nsa5xcL
High on the list of things I did not remember about Paddington Bear: Began reading A Bear Called Paddington to… http://t.co/Fgza6j0jYX
RT @cblatts: Paddington Bear is from “Darkest Peru”? http://t.co/zUQ7oDrsvX
RT @cblatts: Paddington Bear is from “Darkest Peru”? http://t.co/zUQ7oDrsvX
@cblatts Because that’s not racist.
@cblatts That’s the only thing I know about Paddington Bear :-)
Paddington Bear is from “Darkest Peru”? http://t.co/zUQ7oDrsvX
RT @cblatts: The UK’s unexpected immigrant problem. cc @m_clem. http://t.co/01M3nOjRLb
Cameron to Paddington? We will find you and make sure you are sent back to the country you came from. Chris Blattman http://t.co/ytiLSJ8TH5
and @cblatts @m_clem chances these guys in were working in a legal operation in the remote forest?? http://t.co/ZaDLBkBgVA
@cblatts Also Paddington was written as an African emigrant, before the author learned Africa has no bears, see #6 http://t.co/AiN2lHNFUR
The UK’s unexpected immigrant problem. cc @m_clem. http://t.co/01M3nOjRLb
RT @cblatts: High on the list of things I did not remember about Paddington Bear http://t.co/qPRCJy3nbO
this is too funny http://t.co/7BK9hAfbmn
Paddington 2: the immigration office strikes back? http://t.co/CpjnUl2Gil – @cblatts
Ahh you must have missed the wonderful article about this early in December:
An immigration lawyer reviews Paddington
http://www.freemovement.org.uk/an-immigration-lawyer-reviews-paddington/
A little gem from the review:
“Incidentally, for offering a home to Paddington — or harbouring him, as the Home Office would have it — Mr and Mrs Brown could potentially face prosecution under section 25 of the Immigration Act 1971, entitled ‘Assisting unlawful immigration to member State’. The maximum sentence is 14 years.”
@liamstack @cblatts as a child of immigrants, it’s the only thing I remembered about Paddington. Can’t recall the plot at all.
“Darkest Peru”? RT @cblatts High on the list of things I did not remember about Paddington Bear http://t.co/P23GnL7fXV