It seems that Prime Minister, Theresa May, has had a very welcome attack of ‘common sense’ and has dumped the Dubs scheme, so named after Lord Alf Dubs, the former child refugee who campaigned for the Calais ‘refugees’. This scheme was pushed for by, among others, the left wing pro-Islam ‘community’ group Citizens UK. The scheme forced the UK to take fake refugees from the Calais camps, on the grounds that those entering the UK were ‘vulnerable children’.
Lord Dubs, Citizens UK and other groups favourable to the idea of open borders, along with naive and sometimes utterly stupid religious leaders and a consortium of various virtue signallers, pressured the government to take in ‘vulnerable child refugees’. The government agreed to take in these ‘children’ but when they started to arrive they looked nothing like children and the youngest looked about 20 years old.
The furore that occurred when the public saw these fake children arriving caused the Home Office to put up barriers, so that the public and the press could not see who was arriving. This fuelled further suspicion that the rest of these ‘children’ were similarly bearded and male, as were the last ones we were allowed to see.
Personally, I was opposed to the entry into the UK of any of the Calais ‘refugees’. Their behaviour whilst in Calais in attacking legitimate cross-channel travellers told me a lot of what I needed to know about the character of these alleged ‘refugees’. I saw them and I knew that these were people who Britain neither needed, wanted or even to whom we owed anything at all. Also the way that Citizens UK and similar organisations carried out their campaign was utterly disgusting, dishonest and downright offensive. Citizens UK ran a highly emotive campaign using pictures of wretched toddlers and they and their supporters made a number of dishonest and historically counter-factual comparisons with the children who came to Britain fleeing Hitler on the Kindertransport in the 1930’s. It was a monstrous lie told by CitizensUK and others, to compare those genuinely vulnerable children fleeing certain death at the hands of the Nazis, with what were in reality mostly a bunch of adult country shoppers looking for the best welfare deal.
The Prime Minister has done the correct thing in ending this ill-thought-out scheme that should not have been started in the first place. Unfortunately the government instead of saying ‘no’ to the open borders activists, caved in to them. If I have one criticism of Mrs May’s decision, it is that the scheme will not close until March which means that Britain will still end up with more fake ‘refugees’ and probably more fake ‘children’ before the scheme is finally ended. The axe should have fallen on this scheme immediately, not in a month or so’s time.
The ‘Dubs Amendment’ was one of those schemes that should never have had life breathed into it in the first place. It was a classic example of a policy led by emotion and pushed by campaigners like Citizens UK and exploited by virtue-signalling politicians. I’m glad this scheme is no more but it would have been better all round if the government had said a firm ‘no’ to campaigners in the first place.
I may not be Theresa May’s biggest fan, but I have to give her credit for ending this seriously ill thought out and badly executed scheme.
Links
BBC report on the ending of the Dubs Amendment
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38912428
Post from this blog about the activities of the CitizensUK organisation which are so bent towards Islam, the far left and the idea of open borders that they verge on sedition.
Part One
Part Two
