Refugee Joke

Tony Blair wanders into a shop in London’s Chinatown. Looking through the display he discovers a bronze sculpture of a rat. The sculpture is so interesting he asks the shop owner how much.
“Twenty pounds for the rat,” says the shop owner, “and a hundred more if you want the story that goes with it.”
“I’ll just take the rat,” replies the Tony. And with that he leaves the store.
As he crosses the street two live rats emerge from a drain and fall into step behind him. Nervously looking over his shoulder, he begins to walk faster, but every time he passes another drain, more rats come out and follow him.
By the time he’s walked two blocks, at least a hundred rats are on his heels, and people begin to point and shout. He walks even faster, and soon breaks into a jog as rats swarm from sewers and basements and run after him. Shortly, Rats by the thousand are at his heels, and as he sees the
River Thames, he panics and starts to run full tilt. Making a mighty leap, he jumps up onto a lamppost. Grasping the post with one arm he hurls the bronze rat into the River. Pulling his legs up and clinging to the post, he watches in amazement as the seething tide of Rats surges over the embankment and into the Thames where they drown.
Shaken, he makes his way back to the shop.
“Ah, so you’ve come back for the rest of the story,” says the owner.
“Nope,” says the Tony, “I was wondering if you’ve a bronze statue of an asylum seeker.”