What a joke! There is only one solution to illegal immigration, get rid of the people smugglers. Who are they? The Home Office Immigration Department.
Under Home Office (unspoken but universally applied) rules, an illegal migrant, or any migrant for that matter, does not need permission to settle here and conduct a business or enjoy free health care, housing, and education for their children, as well as social security. All they have to do is to set foot on the beach at Dover, pick up a mobile phone and an immigration lawyer’s telephone number from a charity, then vanish. Getting a set of false papers is as easy as buying a book of stamps at the post office. Taxes? Illegal migrants don’t pay taxes, you pay them. Rishi Sunak’s plans won’t make a whit of difference, he is just the Prime Minister, the nominal head of a useless government. It’s Home Office Rules ok?
Immigrant health care? Hospitals and GP practices are specifically forbidden to ask for credentials, although many do if they have a bit of sand. But it never comes to anybody being refused as the DHSS has ruled that as long as you were born on this planet, if you can get here, medical care is free.
There are a few exceptions. If you are white, middle class, honest, wealthy, and a possible asset to the UK, you will be charged huge sums of money for a visa that can sometimes take years to obtain. Some are made to pay indemnities in case they get ill while here. You will be badgered endlessly for forms, certificates, and proofs of this and that. Why? White people cannot claim they are being refused entry on the grounds of race, it’s quite safe to talk to them in person and they don’t have belligerent lawyers at hand encouraging them to break the law. Nor do they have government-funded refugee charities on hand to plead their case on TV.
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Yeah it’s sad. My grandparents emigrated from Russia to the UK during the 1930’s, but we are now preparing to move back. I went to visit Moscow in the summer last year, and it was great; the people were friendly, the conversations were good; I’m not a big fan of Putin, but at least he’s protecting his people from the globalists. Multiculturalism has already destroyed England; the Chinese and North African Muslims don’t share English values. I suspect Scotland will be gone soon, too, as the greens are now aligned now with the SNP. Northern Ireland will be next; Wales may stick around, but both will be weakened, and Westminster will move closer to either Brussels or the CCP for protection; both share a similar philosophy. The end game has already been written on the wall, and so the smart people are looking for an exist strategy.
James Monteith is a Scottish name, but he may have a point about Cornish-born “Freetrader” Nelson’s Bampot-Jock upbringing influencing his editing of the weekly “Spectator”.
Its April Fool’s Day issue has an article by Alex “Alba” Salmond on the rival SNP and its hitherto useless new leader, a Mr Humza Yousaf. “On the positive side,” he writes, “he is the first Muslim leader of any country in the western world: a strong declaration of Scotland’s commitment to diversity. This is not an insubstantial moment.” He advises “Humza” to prioritise the hard fight to detach the northern part of the UK from the rest of us.
Now this professed republican, and advocate of police prosecution of “hate” speech in private homes as well as library censorship, got 26,032 SNP votes, and 18,163 constituency election votes, in a region with about 4.3 million total registered voters, where he beat his Islamic Labour, Hindu Conservative and Burundi Green opponents.
Mr Yousef’s mother-tongue is Urdu not Gaelic, but as an enthusiast for “trans rights” is a rare sort of Muslim. Nevertheless, it is the observation by Mr Salmond that is as disturbing as it is revealing. Scotland is no longer the land of Scots, but just a cosmopolitan zone for territorial politicians. Diversity means a gradual takeover by non-Whites and non-Christians, especially those from south Asia and black Africa. Cultural obliteration and racial replacement are to be welcomed, not only in the land of Burns and Baird, Hume and Haig, the Campbells and MacGregors, but all across the western world.
See the latest info. & comment from Migration Watch UK and also Noah Carl’s online examination of Casey’s woke attack on London’s police, who already spend more effort searching for “hate” than dealing with burglary, stabbings and muggings. The pathocracy wants to turn the boys in blue into their Thought Police and the lads in khaki into instruments of globocracy.
According to the OBR, net migration will settle at around 245,000 a year which Migration Watch UK says is a fantasy; “the Government has no intention of getting a grip on the scale”. At least 1.6 million will arrive over the next five years, notably non-EU arrivals including students (families in tow).
Immigrants legal and illegal need housing, so more builders will be invited in. As more patients from abroad fill our hospitals, so we must bring in more hospital staff from abroad; an INTERnational health service. This will have to patch up for the rapid emigration of medical personnel to what they still imagine is a White Australia and an English New Zealand.
Ponzi Sunak.
@ James Monteith
Glad to see your intervention; I was going by the census 12 years ago. Parrish talked sense in the weekly, as do Shriver, Liddle and Murray.
I remember the good old days of the middle 1980s when The Spectator was the home of Auberon Waugh and “Theodore Dalrymple”. Nowadays it differs from The Guardian only in its pages being stapled together.
As for Fraser Nelson, he and I attended the same school, Dollar Academy, though I was a few years ahead of him. Even in my day, it was a centre of leftist indoctrination, though I was taught elementary Latin brilliantly and without political bias by Jonathan Quick. Mr Quick was later convicted of paedophile crimes, which you can look up. In my day, there were rumours in the playground about Mr S—–n and Mr M—e, but none about Mr Quick, so I have my doubts about his conviction.
Shriver and Liddle are all right. Douglas Murray is a poor man’s Brendan O’Neill.
You were doing OK till your last sentence..Brendan O’Neill like his pals,Clare Fox&sister Frank&Anna Furedi amongst many more,are ‘professional’contrarian grifters&all unapologetic members of the Revolutionary Communist Party?RCP)..have trojan-horsed their way into our societal discussions. Offering faux right-wing outrage that pays way more than their previous welfare payments…(funding Living Marxism)
Fox is in the LORDS..ffs.
Douglas Murray is NOTHING like them.
Before the “leadership” of the “stupid party” [J.S.Mill] fell into his “grahan sangya” Rishi Sunak identified the Equality Act as a major source of the woke problem, but has not yet touched this Sacred Cow. Whether his latest “Illegal Migration Bill” will do its supposed job, remains to be seen. So long as all the countries of western Europe, including Brexit Britain, remain open to ever-increasing incursions from the Global South Majority Heritage, it seems unlikely.
The proverbs “When in Rome…” and “Birds of a feather…” being ignored in setting up white homelands as multi-ethnic host societies, is it likely that “A stitch in time…” will animate London, Paris, Berlin, Dublin or Madrid, as the unemployable youth of Africa gaze lazily and longingly at the northern fleshpot?
Is it now a universal “human right” to come and live in Britain, if only in Britain?
How many are likely to exercise it?
At what point would life in Britain become as intolerable as it is anywhere else?
At what point does even compassion become impossible?
What would have been Archbishop Weepy-Weedy-Wokey-Woolly-Wobbly’s advice been on the Titanic?
Asylum claimants are not the only factor.
Last year 268,000 foreign nationals were granted work permits, up to 95% rise on 2019. 1.56 million visas were issued compared to 1.02 million in 2021. There was a huge increase in students bringing in family members 136,000 last year compared to 16,000 in 2019.
But foreigners already own most of Britain’s economy, so why not make a foreign population to follow suit, instead of stale and pale English, Welsh, Scots and Irish – Indian Hindus, Arab Muslims, Chinese Communists and African Refugees? Inclusion, equality and above all a diversity so vibrant that it makes this island truly multi-cultural and pay for its imperial evils?
@ W. Smith
Well, according to “The Spectator”, 11 March, (as much a “right-wing” journal as the “Daily Mail” is a royalist one), we must maintain a “compassionate agenda” by generously “strengthening Britain’s [morally] historic duty to the [entire] world’s displaced”.
So instead of imposing border controls, why not use what remains of our naval and air transport facilities to go and bring here all the hungry, sick, persecuted, displaced, conflict-zoned and indeed unhappy people, and their relatives, all around the globe who would prefer to live in England. Just imagine the incidental benefits of Somali knife-grinders, Vietnamese horticulturalists and Albanian wrestlers! The editor has described unprecedented “immigration” as a “stunning success”, so why not have as much of a good thing as possible?
The Editor’s own Twickenham home-town has only 30% people of colour, and the Stadium would make a nice starting place for the first arrivals that could be provided with food, clothing and then lovely local homes like his own.
I know Twickenham well, and it is overwhelmingly white. If white is broadened to include Irish and ‘other white’ (like Fraser Nelson’s wife, who is Swedish), the figure is more like 90 per cent. Hardly the multicultural melting point that Nelson seems to favour. But then house prices of over £1 million for a semi put it beyond the reach of the average Somali or Albanian refugee.
It is interesting that in this week’s Spectator, Matthew Parris spills the beans on the righteously compassionate liberal editorial view, or ‘pose’. He pointed out that ‘safe passage’ to all those ‘facing war, persecution and violence’ would amount to billions of people. Which is why talk of admitting all genuine asylum claimants, under the existing definitions, is romantic nonsense, and the Australian approach is the only one.
Fraser should try taking the bus to neighbouring Brentford, Isleworth, Hounslow, Feltham and Hanworth, where he can experience the real consequences of multiculturalism, namely a parallel society where the English have all but disappeared. But then, perhaps Fraser Nelson, who is a Scot, has little time for the English?