The people of Britain have in recent years become all too used to seeing our politicians, both national and local, behaving in an intolerably arrogant manner when it comes to the issue of imposing unwanted migrants or other ‘diversity’ guff on Britain’s towns and cities. However, the way that councillors on the Isle of Wight are going about dumping potentially dangerous ‘Syrian refugees’ on the Island is an example of seriously gross arrogance and lack of concern for those who elected them.
Unanimously the Executive Members of the Isle of Wight council, with the notable and noble exception of the UKIP councillor, voted to dump refugee families on the Island and declared that ‘the Isle of Wight could do with some diversity’. What utter rot from these pro-refugee councillors. How on earth can the sort of ‘diversity’ that often manifests itself in the form of crime, welfare sponging and the victimisation of women, be seen as a boon for the people of the Isle of Wight? It can’t, and the arrogant statement by the council shows just how out of touch they are with those who voted them into power and the reality of the so called ‘refugee crisis’.
The Executive Members of the council have stuck two fingers up to the Island’s existing residents especially the Island’s homeless. The councillors have shown that they are far more concerned with their own virtue signalling over the ‘refugee’ issue, than on the effect that dumping ‘Syrian refugees’ will have on the Island’s population.
As is normally the case with such virtue signallers, I very much doubt that those who made this decision will have to live with the adverse consequences of their decision. Neither will they be there to comfort or support those Islanders who may well end up as victims of the sort of people who’ve brought death, destruction and mass sexual assault to almost every European country that they’ve been given sanctuary in. Sensible and informed people lost any sympathy for these ‘refugees’ a long while ago when they were seen to be bringing violence and crime to those nations that has taken them in. Unfortunately it seems that the pro-refugee councillors on the Isle of Wight seem to be lacking in either knowledge of the problems that these ‘refugees’ are causing or concern for those who voted for these councillors.
Here’s the report on the decision to dump ‘Syrian refugees’ on the Isle of Wight from the website of the local radio station for the area. As is usual policy for this blog, the original text is in italics whereas this blog’s comments are in plain text.
Isle of Wight Radio said:
A unanimous vote by executive members of the Isle of Wight Council could see the resettlement of five refugee families, from war-torn Syria, here on the Island.
At a meeting last night (Thursday), executive members welcomed the idea and said the Island needed more diversity.
These ‘diversity’ promoters always welcome the idea of ‘more diversity’, but they can never seem to fully and accurately quantify what sort of positive benefits the sort of ‘diversity’ that they promote will have on those the are imposing such ‘diversity’ on. Personally I see no benefits whatsoever from dumping those from backwards, mostly Islamic, cultures such as Syrian on advanced or civilised societies.
Executive Member for Regeneration, Housing and Homelessness and Transport, Julia Baker-Smith said:
“It’s absolutely vital that we support these families who have been through the sorts of experiences, through the war in Syria, that we just can’t even begin to comprehend.”
The question I’d like to as Ms Baker-Smith is this: Why is it ‘absolutely vital’ that they support these families? Surely as a member of a council elected by British citizens resident on the Isle of Wight her priorities should be helping those who she is supposed to represent, not ‘Syrian refugees’?
Yes, those displaced by the Syrian civil war have been through a lot but that doesn’t mean that they, and their often monstrously incompatible and dangerous cultural baggage, should be dumped on the Island. If Ms Baker-Smith really cared about the plight of those affected by this war then why isn’t she putting her own hands in her own pockets and supporting projects in the immediate region where the conflict is occurring?
It seems that Ms Baker-Smith is just another public sector virtue signaller who wants to play ‘Lady Bountiful’ with British cash and undermine the security and safety of fellow Britons in the process. Baker-Smith and those like her want to be charitable, but they always seem to want someone else to pay the price, whether that price be financial, or whether the price is decreased security or having Britons being pushed down the queue for housing or other services.
However not all councillors were in agreement with the executive panel. Councillor Daryll Pitcher said he was concerned for the Isle of Wight’s homeless and believed they would be pushed to the back of the housing queue.
Councillor Pitcher, the UKIP representative for the Wooton Bridge electoral area on the Island is the sole voice of common sense and good judgement in this whole sorry affair. He’s correct when he says that this decision will have an adverse impact on those already seeking housing on the Isle of Wight. Those Britons already waiting to be housed will no doubt be pushed to the back of the queue as the virtue signallers and pro-refugee types fall over themselves to stuff the mouths of these ‘refugees’ with gold and preferential access to public services including housing.
Deputy Leader and Executive Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health, Councillor Steve Stubbings said:
“The controversy was reignited by our UKIP member who was present and it sounds like he still thinks that we shouldn’t be reaching out a hand of friendship to a humanitarian cause, towards people who are in such an appalling situation, and there are still people who feel like that on the Isle of Wight.”
Councillor Stubbings appears to be doing his level best to bury Cllr Pitcher’s very reasonable concerns that the importation of these ‘refugees’ will have an adverse affect on those already waiting for housing or other services. He also makes the usual emotionally incontinent argument about ‘humanitarianism’, that these types of politician usually make in these situations.
However I detect scant humanitarian concern coming from Cllr Stubbings for the people of the Isle of Wight who will have these ‘Syrian refugees’ dumped on them. This is despite there is now ample credible evidence that the Syrians and those posing as ‘Syrian refugees’, are bringing a heap of trouble wherever they go.
I will say to Cllr Stubbings what I said to Cllr Baker-Smith. That is that if he is as concerned as he says he is about the problems facing Syrians displaced by the conflict, then he can use his own money and resources to fund aid projects in the war zone itself. This sort of action is both more effective and cost effective than bringing these Syrians to the UK where the ‘aid pound’ doesn’t go very far at all when compared with what a similar ‘aid pound’ will do in the Mid East region.
Councillor Julia Baker-Smith said:
“Obviously we have a number of homeless people on the Island but I want to reassure people that anyone that is waiting for housing on the Island isn’t going to be pushed to one side in favour of these families coming forward who we absolutely must help, and that we’re getting assistance from private landlords in order to be able to bring forward housing for these people, which won’t in any way affect the housing list or the housing register.”
This is an outrageous, arrogant and probably partially dishonest statement from Cllr Baker-Smith. Firstly it shows that she doesn’t give a monkey’s chuff about local homeless, for if she did, she wouldn’t be pushing for the entry of ‘Syrian refugees’ who will put strain on the housing system. I don’t see how she can honestly and truthfully say that bringing in these ‘Syrian refugees’ will not put pressure on the housing systems? Such a statement is foolish and ill-informed at best, or at its worst, completely dishonest because at some point in the future, when the central government funding for their housing runs out, these ‘Syrian refugees’ will end up going cap in hand to the local authority housing department.
Cllr Baker-Smith mentions that the ‘Syrian refugees’ will be housed by private landlords but if that is the case shouldn’t these privately rented properties be going to either needy local people who are subsidised by housing benefit or rented out to slightly better off people at market rates? There are a shedload of holes in Cllr Baker-Smith’s statement and I foresee that these Syrians will end up being a burden on local taxpayers and local services, despite her denial that this will be the case.
This case is yet another of those where local politicians, who should be standing up for the rights, liberties and security of local people have instead decided to send local people ‘to the back of the bus’ by helping to dump a whole load of ‘Syrian refugees’ and the accompanying problems they will bring, onto the area. Those councillors who’ve made the decision to house ‘Syrian refugees’ on the Isle of Wight, despite all that is now known about them, represents the very worst of the sort of arrogant, virtue signalling behaviour that we’ve come to expect from such politicians.
The councillors who’ve put this plan in place have shown a ‘Marie Antoinette’ level of arrogance in their public statements. However, instead of saying ‘let them eat cake’ as Marie Antoinette is erroneously quoted as having said to starving French peasants without bread, these councillors have said ‘shut up and enjoy the diversity’ to people who neither want, nor need, the sort of damaging ‘diversity’ that the council is planning to dump on them.
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Source of original story from Isle of Wight Radio
http://iwradio.co.uk/2017/01/13/refugees-one-step-closer-home-isle-wight/
