Briton flees to Australia after being sacked for mocking Singapore 'poor'

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Guardian

Briton flees to Australia after being sacked for mocking Singapore 'poor'

Fund manager Anton Casey moves to Perth after apologising for the 'greatest mistake of my life'

theguardian.com, Saturday 25 January 2014 21.09 EST

Anton Casey, the British fund manager who mocked the 'poor people' of Singapore on Facebook, has been sacked and forced to flee the country for Australia.

Casey, 39, took a Singapore Airlines flight to Perth on Friday but not before first apologising for the biggest mistake in his life and offering to do ''community service''.

The angry reaction to his Facebook insults had left his situation and that of his former Miss Singapore wife, Bernice Wong, and son in the island state untenable.

In his Facebook posts he showed a picture of his son holding up his ticket on a Singapore MRT (Mass Rapid Transport) train with the caption: "Daddy where is your car and who are all these poor people?"


Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/26/briton-mocked-poor-singapore-sacked-flee-australia

[Nanjing to Seoul]

1. Rule #1 of Chinese and Quasi-Chinese culture (and most of Singapore are Chinese):

Do not insult the people if you are an outsider, unless you are with people that know you. It never ends well.

[Skittles]

2. he even LOOKS like a pompous asshole

[dballance]

3. What a dick.

He looks 50, BTW.

[theHandpuppet]

5. Yeah, if he's 39 I'm 39 again

And I can barely remember what that was like.

Read the article and that guy's comments were revolting. What an ass.

[jsr]

4. "Singapore is our home, and we hope to return when we feel safe''

LOL

[JI7]

6. he looks fucking old for 39

[valerief]

10. Right. He's got the 55+ turkey neck. nt

[Skittles]

7. I'm surprised he did not flee to Wall Street

[swilton]

8. The 'biggest mistake'

was never actually defined in the article nor is their any type of inner reflection demonstrated on Casey's part....In his view the mistake was getting caught not in actually harboring those feelings or contributing to the economic system that creates such inequality in first place....

[valerief]

9. Here in the US we give the spouses of people like him their own TV shows

and adulate them.