Friday roundup of general twattage from the last week.
Immigration Amnesty
Update: I’d barely finished writing this, when Manchester No Borders (a neo-fascist*/anarchist group) attacked elected representative MP Phil Woolas. Their page says:
“They include migrant rights advocates and members of left-wing and anarchist groups such as Manchester No Borders, Manchester Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers, No One Is Illegal, and the Anarchist Federation.”
and the no borders network web-page is actively encouraging the kind of abusive sham marriages which lead women into a life of misery and abuse, while the man often takes several other wives. (I’ll be posting more about that soon).
These people have no ideas of the consequences of their actions. People trafficking has a terrible human toll, often funding drugs cartels which bring misery to children, women and men. Will a bunch of anarchist thugs be willing to pay the enourmous increase in tax needed to support literally millions more people? So, No Borders, please feel free to comment below on why you thing importing vast swathes of the world’s misery to the UK would be better than trying to deal with the problems at source?
And don’t attack Phil Woolas. He’s about the only person in the Labour party who has the slightest clue on immigration!
Anyway, back to the original post…
So, let me get this right. Correct me if I’m wrong. I just want to be clear; Illegal immigrants (oh, wait, apparently there’s no such thing) who have travelled right across Europe (in violation of the first safe country rule) are happy to pay up to £1,200 to criminals in Calais to get them to the UK. Then, in cases like Slough, the burden is so great, the council needs extra government aid. (covered in more detail in this post) which will push up local tax bills. The government are either clueless or criminal with their hiding of the figures of both migrant workers and asylum seekers. And let’s face it, you don’t rely on a voluntary registration scheme at the two airports where migrant workers are least likely to come. (Except they did, of course). And yes, I’m conflating the two because no-one has a clue who’s who.
We were told that massive uncontrolled immigration would bring great benefits. Turns out, even by the most optimistic official figures, it was worth one mars bar per month – about 4p a week. And now it doesn’t quite suit our tax-dodging chums, they’re heading off back. The biggest lie, of course, was that we needed this immigration because we had an ageing population. As if migrants don’t age! I’ve also heard several times, often from liberal commentators, that if it wasn’t for cheap illegal migrant workers, the hotel and service sector in London would collapse overnight. And it’s often said with a sense of pride! I think it’s shameful.
UPDATE: 19/03/2009 According to the BBC:
People from outside the EU moving to the UK to work or study will have to pay £50 extra for visas to help areas struggling to cope with immigration.
The £70m raised by the two-year scheme, announced by Communities Secretary Hazel Blears, will help fund more police support and translators.
Many councils have warned of the strain that new arrivals have put on services.
I thought migrants took brought huge amounts of benefits?
What that also ignores is the cost, not just financial, but to society. We all know the statistics – the ones which get swept under the carpet. Anyone with their eyes open can see the patterns. But you can’t point them out, however qualified for fear of being labelled racist. Even obvious medical things like black people are less prone to skin cancer but might need slightly different drugs is, apparently, racist. Even researching race is racist, apparently. So, we all lose out.
So we know that, by definition and without being immotive, everyone working or living here illegally is a criminal. And in many cases do nothing but hate and protest against the very people who fought for the freedoms they so enjoy in this country. And so, last week, BBC Panorama asked “Immigration: Time for an amnesty?” Do watch it if you can. Preferably in conjunction with “How they squander our billions“.
Binyam Mohamed.
A good summary is written here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2009/mar/13/michael-white-binyam-mohamed
I think my feelings on this are most neatly summed up by one of the commentators on that article, who says:
“I would like to know who was providing him with the wherewithal for all this air travel and international gadding about. And as he’d been extorting accommodation, income and education from unwilling British tax payers – who weren’t given prior notification of his absence abroad on a false passport – he was presumably also guilty of benefit fraud, education grant fraud and housing fraud.
He is persona non grata and should be deported immediately.”
My point? I am sick and tired of the double standards. One rule for them, one rule for us. Things like “that’s their word”, as if certain words belonged to certain groups. Either use them, or don’t use them. I’m sick of the way our dhimmi government, both past and present, pander to Nazi book burners and bow to extremists which in turn ferments more hatred. While the freedoms of the country’s citizens are taken away day by day.
Fuck that. It’s time for change.
(*I’m using the word fascist as per the following definition: “Fascism is a radical, authoritarian nationalist ideology that aims to create a single-party state with a government led by a dictator who seeks national unity and development by requiring individuals to subordinate self-interest to the collective interest of the nation or race“). Sounds pretty much like their aims – bully the masses by fear into accepting an un-natural unity and requiring individuals to subordinate self-interest to the collective interest .
