Brilliant piece in the Daily Telegraph from Douglas Murray. In it he bemoans the appalling shitshow that has been made by the Government of the matter of border control. He’s correct, we get excuse after excuse about illegal migration and, as Mr Murray says, the Govt seem to have come to rely on weather conditions to stop the invasion via the South Coast rather than actually taking steps to stop the invasion.
Last Friday more than 800 illegal migrants successfully made the crossing. That was the highest daily total this year. But it also stood out in the stats because choppy waters had delayed crossings for a week, allowing some officials to pretend the problem was on the way to being solved.
I sometimes wonder if this Government will be reduced to simply praying to the sky gods to solve this problem. Because otherwise it seems that they are out of ideas.
Mr Murray then said that action must be taken to secure the borders and that action should be robust. He added “It’s really very simple: the only way to stop illegal immigration is to either repel people at your borders or deport them when they come into the country. Both of these take a minimal amount of political capital to be spent. Both need to be done in the face of small but vocal lobbies of activists who pretend that everyone arriving is a legitimate asylum seeker, namely those who find France insufficiently commodious to their requirements.“
He’s right there. What’s needed is for there to be a government that will stand up to the noisy pro-migration activists but sadly it’s not the Tories. They are presiding over unprecedented levels of migration both legal and illegal. The problem is that Labour will be worse, they are likely to prop the doors of the country even wider open.
Mr Murray then went on to say that maybe it’s time to make those who have made the bad decisions in places like the Home Office be more accountable for their decisions. Mr Murray added:
Just as people in the system are made to pay for scandals that obsess the Left – the Windrush scandal comes to mind – so it should also be the case that people in the system pay if they do things as a result of perceived “virtue”. Letting the Manchester Arena bomber’s family into this country, for instance; or the Parsons Green bomber. I want names, firings and – where possible – prosecutions of public servants who cannot be bothered to enforce policy that would actually protect the public.
But again, this Government seems not to have the courage to do that. Anymore than they have the courage to withdraw this country from the out-dated and unworkable ECHR. Again they seem to think that they can leave the problem for another day.
Sadly Mr Murray is correct. Home Office civil servants can make the most enormous cock ups or not administer the border control system for the benefit of Britons or even let in extremists and criminals and nothing really happens to them. Once they’ve screwed up the process of protecting the borders or keeping the Home Office in a state of complete unfitness for purpose, senior civil servants can jump ship and join the NGO sector, including NGO’s that promote open borders policies that create immense problems for ordinary Britons. We should know the names of those who have let us down so very badly over stuff like the entry of the Manchester, Parson’s Green and Liverpool Women’s Hospital bombers and if there is enough evidence to prove recklessness or malfeasance then they should be prosecuted. The problem is this does not happen. The Home Office civil servants can keep the borders open, fail to deport unwanted migrants and nothing ever seems to happen to them.
Maybe it’s because many of those who make bad decisions regarding immigration don’t have to live with the immediate consequences? It’s not the upper class Upper Street, Islington residing socialists who have to live with the ill effects of unsuitable and excess migration. It’s the ordinary Briton that has to suffer that. Not for the wealthy faux compassionate lefties the misery of not being able to access the healthcare system because of excess demand, or find that their chances of decent housing has been removed in order to give ‘refugees’ homes that they’ve never and probably never will have contributed to. It’s possible in the UK for a person from the middle class to leave one of the Oxbridge colleges with a degree, get a fast stream position in the Civil Service, earn a considerable salary and live in one or the dwindling number of nice areas in London or in one of the towns surrounding the Capital. They can then put into action the ‘refugees welcome’ bollocks that they’ve been fed in college and from lobby groups without any thought of the consequences.
Mr Murray has a suggestion. Maybe it’s time to prick the bubbles that the pro-migration types live in and visit upon them what has been, sometimes violently, been visited on the rest of us.
Mr Murray said:
Let me make a suggestion that may be unpopular, but is necessary. Let the Conservative government stop trying to “hide” the unprecedented numbers of arrivals into our country. Stop sending them to corners of Liverpool where any local objection can be snorted at as “racist” by right-on Londoners and others. Work out the parts of the country that are most in favour of illegal migration – Islington springs to mind – and send the illegal migrants there.
When their streets are full of the consequences they might realise the most basic fact of all: you cannot put this off till tomorrow. Because the problem is already here; the future arrived faster than expected. Rub that in the noses of the people who wanted this to happen. It would comprise some justice at least.
Mr Murray is correct in his observation that the majority of the vast number of cross Channel invaders has been pushed onto often already suffering working class areas. Those areas whose populace protests or fights back against the imposition of potentially dangerous and actually unwanted migrants then get smeared as ‘Nazis’ merely because two or three jackboot lickers turn up at a protest organised by local people. Mr Murray is also correct that the situation will not change until those, often naive individuals, who have promoted open borders get a taste of the same shit that they’ve unleashed on the rest of us.
Mr Murray’s assessment that we are where we are because every government in the last thirty or so years has looked at the problem of immigration and said ‘too hard’ and kicked the can down the road, is a correct one. Not calmly looking at an issue such as immigration and making the hard decisions in the face of screaming from the upper and middle class Left, is for example how we got the problem of London, during the term of John Major, becoming a haven for Islamic extremists and having a man blow up a tube train at Parson’s Green during the current Tory administration. Everyone’s kicked the immigration can down the road in the hope that someone else will sort it out or something else will come along to solve the problem. The problem is now the can is at the end of the road, it can’t be kicked any further and the problems regarding immigration that have been bequeathed us need to be solved and solved and solved in a manner that is favourable to all Britons, no matter what our skin colour. There must be no more sleight of hand tricks such as dumping migrants of already suffering areas or fast tracking asylum cases in favour of the applicant, we need a set of politicians who will not shy away from dealing with these issues. Sadly the problem is that the sort of politicians who might be willing to do this are not to be found in the Palace or Westminster and the sort of Civil Servants who would go along with robust policies to deal with excessive and unwanted levels of immigration are probably not to be found in an increasingly politicised Whitehall. Politically and socially Britain is in for bumpy ride which is made much more so because problems that should have been tackled earlier have been left to fester.
