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Immigration amnesty and Binyam Mohamed

Friday, March 13th, 2009

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 .

Lies, damn Labour lies and Office of National Statistics

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

Remember a few months ago when New Labour were blasted for releasing early, innacurate knife crime figures showing a fall when there was a rise?

How ironic that the same government’s Phil Woolas should be angry that the Office for National Statistics released accurate figures for immigration, which didn’t match the Labour lies.

But then, they’ve also been caught out with their lies about the benefits of early prisoner release

Shameless bankers and the myth of free market capitalism

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

What the hell is going on?! We now know that Taxpayers may become liable for £500bn worth of bad loans and investments made by Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group.

And now, Sir Fred Goodwin, having run the bank appallingly, has paid himself off early at the age of 50 with a retirement package of £650,000 PER YEAR and is refusing to pay it back!

This was discussed on Today’s 08:10 interview, 27/02/09 (click to listen)

Yet more bailouts – and of course, now a precedent is set, all the pigs are squeeling at the trough – why should massive Indian conglomerates like Tata and oligarch-run Gaz get bailed out? If they shell out for an unprofitable business like LDV and it doesn’t work out, fuck ‘em. That’s business. I didn’t get my Northern Rock shares back.

But still people are defending Fred the Shred:

Last week a new form of pension indexing was proposed. Instead of linking pensions to either prices or earnings they would be linked to competence.

The pension agreed upon retirement would be subjected to periodic review of the important decisions made by the recipients during their professional career. If, in retrospect, the decisions didn’t look as wise as they appeared at the time, money could be removed from the pension pot.

No no no! You’re missing the point by a mile, Mr Finkelstein. This was a discretionary payment, and he was NOT contracted to ruin the bank. He broke his contract. Simple as that. Fortunately, the letters page comes to the rescue

Shall we remember some quotes?

Gordon Brown – “the end of boom and bust

Mandelson a few years back – “We [Labour] are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich”

Now we’re hearing “We have to pay bankers bonuses to keep them or they’ll run off”. To which country and industry, FFS?! The USA? India? Japan? Kick some reality.

Same goes for the mindless and bizarre immigration policies of the last 10 years. Here’s part of an editorial from The Telegraph:

When the Office of National Statistics (ONS) published its latest figures on employment 10 days ago, it was attacked by Labour for being “unhelpful”. The problem was actually that the ONS was being truthful. Their figures revealed that while employment for British workers has fallen by 250,000 over the past 12 months, the number of foreign workers employed here has increased by 200,000. So much for Gordon Brown’s famous promise of “British jobs for British workers.”

Labour’s immigration policy has been predicated on the idea that Britain needed a larger workforce. With an ageing population, Britain, it was said, needed an influx of young immigrants to provide the services and the pensions for the increasing number of old and economically inactive Britons. The fallacy in that argument was exposed almost from the moment it was made: immigrants get old just like everyone else, which means that immigration can at most delay our facing up to the problem of an ageing labour force. It cannot provide a solution.

They do? No shit, Sherlock! You know that, I know that – but what were the government playing at? Even now they appearing to be shitting themselves over appearing protectionist. We NEED to be protectionist! Goodness me, we’re the only country in the world that isn’t. We seem quite happy to farm all our work off to India and import people, then Brown sits there scratching his head wondering why no-one told him so. But they did! “Sir James Crosby has dramatically quit as deputy chairman of the Financial Services Authority following revelations that he fired a whistleblower who warned of dangerous lending practices at HBOS.”

This was Gordon Brown’s advisor. Can the mire get any deeper? Can the snouts push any further into the trough?

Here’s an editorial from The Week, an excellent magazine that compresses the week’s news into one Friday delivery!

What to make of the 200 eminent American economists who last week wrote an open letter to Barack Obama telling him, “with all due respect”, that he was crazy to think Keynesian-style government spending would haul America out of recession. Well first off, even if they’re right, it’s probably wise for them to avoid signing open letters. Remember the 364 British economists – Mervyn King, now Bank of England governor, among them – who in March 1981 wrote one such letter to Mrs Thatcher, warning that her “monetarist” policies would “deepen the recession”? Almost as soon as the letter from these pro-Keynesians economists appeared, the long economic recovery of the 1980s began.

Not that that put any of them out. We were still “perfectly right to complain”, says Steve Nickell, one of the 364, who now sits on the Bank’s monetary policy committee: there would have been less unemployment in ensuing years, he insists, if policy hadn’t been so tight. But just as Thatcher’s apparent success does nothing to dislodge their Keynesian convictions, so the success of FDR’s New Deal – the great validating piece of evidence for Keynesian spending policies – does nothing to dent the monetarist confidence of the 200 Americans. It was World War II that brought the US out of the Depression, they say, not Roosevelt.

What’s depressing is not that the experts disagree; it’s that they have been having the same fundamental disagreement for 75 years. It’s as if the physicists were still deeply split over the existence of phlogiston. A dismal science, indeed.

I’ve read people saying things like “companies will be most efficient when unregulated and will naturally find the size at which they are most effective”.
Tell that to the victims of The Mirror pension fund or Enron or Worldcom …I don’t even know were to begin listing them! I’ve also read more than one person saying that “companies don’t need regulation because they wouldn’t do anything to damage their profitibility, would they?” No? Really?! Where do I start….
Free market unregulated capitalism does not work, long term. But nor does Socialism or Communism etc. What works is a common-sense approach.

You see, there ARE limits to growth. There must be, by definition. A fellow blogger and verbal sparring partner, Rob, has an entry in his blog which claims that growth does not equal resource use. But a lot of the arguments are based on the same “perfect world” argument as not having gun control or allowing anyone to take any drug they want. It just breaks the laws of physics, finance and they way people are.

Here are some other links and notes I’ve not had time to write about – follow them at your own interest:

BBC Recession tracker (some great charts and graphs on there) and jobs tracker is very interesting as is the “how quickly could the UK recover?” item and the “your questions answered” page

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/nov/17/recession-cbi

STOTTY: BACK TO THE 80s, DAVE? – Sunday Mirror article from 2006

Fraud halts US refugee scheme

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

BBC NEWS | ‘Fraud’ halts US refugee scheme

The United States has suspended a programme aimed at reuniting refugees in Africa with relatives in the US because of widespread fraud.

The US state department said DNA tests showed the majority of those applying had no family relationships in the US.

Thousands of Africans have been allowed to settle in the US under its P3 family reunification programme.

The scheme offers close family members the chance to join loved ones who have already made America their home.

But DNA tests on applicants in seven African countries showed that only around 20% of those trying to enter the US actually had a family relationship.

Well duh! African fraud?! Whoever heard of such a thing. Imagine that.

I bought a bird feeder

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Doing the rounds at the moment….

I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch and filled it lovingly with seed. It was indeed a beautiful bird feeder.

Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food. But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table, and next to the barbecue.

Then came the bird shit. It was everywhere; on the patio tile, the chairs, the table … everywhere! Then some of the birds turned mean. They would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket. And others birds were boisterous and loud. They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day and night and demanded that I fill it when it got low on food. After a while, I couldn’t even sit on my own back porch anymore.

So I took down the bird feeder and in three days the birds were gone. I cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the patio. Soon, the back yard was like it used to be … quiet, serene and no one demanding their rights to a free meal.

Now let’s see ….

Our government gives out free food, subsidized housing, free medical care, and free education and allows anyone born here to be an automatic citizen. Then the illegal’s came by the millions.

Suddenly our taxes went up to pay for free services; small apartments are housing 5 or more families; you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by a doctor in an emergency room because it is filled with illegals; your child’s class is behind other schools because over half the class doesn’t speak English.

Breakfast cereal now comes in a bilingual box; I have to ‘press one’ to hear my bank talk to me in English, and people waving flags other than ‘The Union Jack’ are squawking and screaming in the streets, demanding more rights and free liberties. Its just my opinion but: maybe, just maybe, it’s time for the government to take down the damn bird feeder.

EU immigration could push up local tax bills

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

As reported by BBC News, Reuters and http://politics.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329547934-110247,00.html etc…

Sharp council tax rises may be needed in the next few years to fund housing and education for immigrant families, says the Local Government Association.

The LGA, which represents local authorities in England and Wales, says rises of 6% on top of inflation-related increases may be needed in some places.

It says councils do not get enough cash to fund the services because official figures under estimate migrant levels.

Hmmm, that’s odd. I thought we’d spent the last few years being brainwashed into thinking that massive migration of non-tax payers into an overcrowded country with a crumbling infrastructure was somehow of benefit. Surely the government wouldn’t lie to us?!

What everyone except the Home Office already knew…

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5193018.stm

Ministers are set to admit they may have significantly underestimated the number of failed asylum seekers living in Britain….a trawl of files in the Immigration and Nationality department has produced between 400,000 and 450,000 case files.

These are the case files that are known about – the actual figure may be over 2 million.

Interesting reading:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2001/destination_uk/default.stm
http://www.migrationwatch.co.uk/

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