I can`t help but think of Mrs Slocombe and her legendry Pussy quotes?, i`ll leave them to everyones imagination!!!.

I doubt if we'll get an apology from Theresa, just like she didn't apologise to the Police for 'standing by while London burned'. She's just made her pitch for the next leader of the Tory Party.

doesn't take away fro the fact that the system is a mess and we have rapists, murderers and useless illiterate village-idiot economic migrants abusing the human rights act for their own ends. This needs to stop, cat or no cat

Catgate.

Keep the story running, but don't blame me, because I voted LABOUR and I will never vote for the TORIES, thanks, so Teresa May is not my problem she is her own prob.

It went down well. Who cares if the cat thing was an exaggeration?

It shouldn't and indeed doesn't matter.

More interesting in whats going on, or not going on in Europe today.

Prevarication, lies, deceit and hypocricy ! You could not have expected anything else from Conservative Party Conference that is really a Monkey's Tea Party for Pathological Liars.

Putting the cat business aside the policy regarding throwing immigrants out that have run away from justice or been convicted of a crime I fully agree with.

What she(Theresa May)did not mention was their old buddy the conservative supporter Asil Nadir from the Polypec Empire that has returned to England after about twenty years on the run from British justice to evade fraud but now wants to clear his name because he believes that now a Conservative Government is in power he will be able to get justice and clear his name.

Why not just deport him and save the tax payers the cost of an expensive trial. If he found fit to go on the run with all those millions for so many years send him back and let him remain there, where ever it was. No, they just let the undesirable in and give him bail to face an expensive trial at the tax payers expense.

Hypocrites the lot of them. One rule/law for them and another for the rest of society.

so the judge used the cat in his summing up speech, but the a spokesman for the judiciary said May was incorrect.
So far in the last 5 years we've had a torch shone into how the following work.
1,Banks
2.MP's
3.media
4.police
5. politics

what other stones need unturning I wonder... and who will have the cohones to take on that one?

I AM NOT AWARE OF ANY IMMIGRANT VILLAGE IDIOTS, BUT I KNOW OF MANY CONSULTANT DOCTORS AND GPs FROM ABROAD AND MANY MORE IMMIGRANTS WHOS WORK AND DEDICATION TO THIS IS VITAL TO OUR HEALTH SERVICE AND COUNTRY AS A WHOLE.IF AN IMMIGRANT APPLYS FOR WORK, THEN LET HIM WORK!

Surely the most worrying aspect of all this is that, appalling and amusing as the gaffe may have been,public discourse on human rights is predominantly expressed in terms that have the concept as a joke; something to be met with contempt and derision. Mythical examples such as the one in the article and apocryphal tales that echo their 'they've cancelled Christmas' cousins abound. How often is the view that the concept of human rights and its application is a high point for civilized socities and a marker of that very civility expressed this publicly ? All of this begs the question, what kind of people find fault in progress and fairness for humanity?

@Peg-

"Surely the most worrying aspect of all this is that, appalling and amusing as the gaffe may have been,public discourse on human rights is predominantly expressed in terms that have the concept as a joke; something to be met with contempt and derision. Mythical examples such as the one in the article and apocryphal tales that echo their 'they've cancelled Christmas' cousins abound. How often is the view that the concept of human rights and its application is a high point for civilized socities and a marker of that very civility expressed this publicly ? All of this begs the question, what kind of people find fault in progress and fairness for humanity?"

I think we all know the answer to that one.

What about the story about the stunningly ignorant woman who got the job of Home Secretary because she had a rather talented cat?
OK, I'm making it up, but that's OK isn't it?

Quelle surprise.
It has had the desired effect though hasn't it. One gets the feeling that these stories are deliberately wheeled out from time to time to distract attention from the mess that the government is making of things. Typical scapegoating.
It has had the desired effect though. The idea has entered the popular consciousness whether or not the govt is forced into a retraction. Typical Tories.....

That lost post was a bit incoherent. I've put a more coherent, and abusive, summary here:
http://representingthemambo.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/theresa-may-be-tell...

i think if someone emmigrates and commits a act of crime they should not be able to stay for some silly little thing like "oh i have a daughter in bristol who i dont know or have not met" and the contry of great britan is now full of dare i say either scum or degenates. i have no quarrel with an immigrant coming here from a war stricken contry or etc i dont mind i am a diabetic and have been treated by non britans (or at least i think) and they have probaly saved my life but someone settling here and then bringing their family and then living off benifits is out of order (i know im wittering on) but there are war vetrens who live in a council flat with 1 bedroom and there are peaple from other contries that their religion says to hate us and they live in a mulit million pound house i mean thats just worng

Credit to Ken Clarke for not going along with the pathetic attempt to dupe the Daily Mail crowd. He's one of the (very) few Tories for whom I have any respect.
Thinking about tomorrow's headlines will give PR-fixated Cameron a restless night before his long-on-words-short-on-substance speech tomorrow.

The most worrying thing, is why are the judges interpreting the law in one way only and incorrectly? Perhaps the never ending supply of legal fees is keeping their bias afloat. Even Ken Clarke admits that the decisions of judges are flawed on bbc tv. But never let a good cat story get in the way of english law.

Mind you, europe changes laws so many times, that anybody doing a law degree would never be totally up to date in european law. English law has been over ridden by europe.

I think, with the euro debt crisis about to hit the fan, together with the ruling on using greek decoders to watch football, that the european law and finance question will finally be on the table. We all need to know how much, when, how and where we are in europe, legally and financially. It's not working in its present form.

It is a sad day for democracy when a senior minister is prepared to stoop so low as Theresa May did today.
Even by conservative standards this episode has reached an appalling depth of political depravity.
Either she thought this story was true, in which case she is very very stupid indeed. Or, more likely, she just decided to play to the gallery of "Daily Mail" readers and repeat this idiocy, plucked straight out of the worst tabloid.
How low are politicians prepared to go, to pander to the racists and the ignorants?
But worse than that, this little charming anecdote is part and parcel of a big anti-Europe and anti-immigrant campaign, a right-wing enterprise, which is bound to please such ignoramus as some commenters above.Lionel, for example, who thinks that economic migrants are "useless illiterate village-idiots".Amazingly, still according to him, these imbeciles are able to "abuse the human right act for their own ends". These guys must be very clever idiots if they can do that without being able to read and write.Such appalling myths are the result of the vitriolic racist drip that most people are hooked on via their Daily Mail.
What I find very worrying is that the conservatives are campaigning against Europe, anything foreign and the Human Right Act, and nobody seems to react.
How much xenophobic and anti-democratic crap must this government throw at people before they say ENOUGH!
The lethargy from the "good and thinking people" is frightening.The silence deafening.
More and more right-wing unthinkable opinions, such as getting rid of the HRA,are now passing as acceptable. Where is the outrage? the anger?
Where is the demand for morality in politics? People seem so resigned to the political rot that they no longer bother to be outraged.
I find this disturbing and also very dangerous. This is how fascist ideas became acceptable in the 30's.
Instead of the present crisis making people turn to the left, they seem to be wanting more of the same, only more to the right.
Theresa May's cat story is just the first wave of a gigantic xenophobic tsunami which is about to hit this country, if we do not react.I hope I am wrong.

But what if the story turned out to be true? What would people say then?

How Clarke has the face to remain is this wretched Govt I just don't know. He should resign today.