In the Observer newspaper this last Sunday we see the headline ‘Church attacks David Cameron’s lack of compassion over the asylum crisis.’ Well as a member of the church myself I beg to differ. Unfortunately I believe the church here has a misplaced sense of compassion. Thank god that they don’t run the government. Now I’m not saying there is no room for compassion, of course there is, but when it comes to policing international borders, there should be a very high barrier to entry for any potential immigrant to any country worth its salt. Given that we haven’t a clue as to who these people are in Calais without rigorous checks, and the propensity of people to lie through their teeth to get what they want, hearing that the UK is ‘El Dorado,’ we have to be very careful about accepting any stories about asylum seekers.
Always and ever time the government’s first responsibility is to protect its own people, otherwise what is the point of having a nation state? The Calais crisis exposes the continental open borders policy that we have opened the door to through being members of the EU and by listening to people like Peter Sutherland, special representative of the UN Secretary- General for international migration and development, whose views on people migration should quite honestly be consigned to the dustbin of ideological nonsense.
The present crisis in Calais is concentrating the minds somewhat of the the British people. As yet there seems to be no adequate response to the migrant situation that has plagued this area for years and is now escalating to dangerous levels. However it is a very loud trumpet sound to the British people about the glories or otherwise of the EU, and as Matthew D’Ancona points out, a potent illustration of just why being a member of the EU might not be a good idea according to the euro sceptic mob.
There is no way any of these people should be let into the UK under the present regime. The very fact that some of them are pushing objects in front of lorries, threatening lorry drivers, brazenly resisting legitimate authority and wielding weapons should bring us to the swift conclusion that no such person should be allowed to enter the UK. The fact that some of them are also causing criminal damage by destroying fencing, breaking into lorries and trains, as well as indirectly disrupting the south east of England is even more reason for them not to come.
It seems that the incredibly enlightened policy of EU open borders is now proving to be a chocolate teapot in dealing with the flow of migrants across Europe. As far as economic migrants are concerned, British is under no obligation to take anyone as we have already taken hundreds of thousands of immigrants in a very short time period. As far as asylum seekers are concerned, they should be claiming asylum in the first country they reach, not travelling the length and breadth of Europe to go where they want. It seems that they are far too easily being allowed to transport themselves across the continent to their own favoured destination. If you were of a cynical disposition of course you would think that certain countries in Europe just don’t want to be bothered about processing people entering their countries, why not just wave them on to a country that will take them? Or if you were even more cynical you might believe that there is a policy at a very high level to make the UK the plug hole of Europe!
David Davies of the Conservative party echoed calls for the army to be sent to Calais and proposed camps in place like North Africa where migrants can be properly processed. Genuine asylum seekers can then be filtered out. Under no circumstances would anyone be allowed to travel without proper documentation. Any propensity to destroy your documents on your travels to ease your passage i.e. bare faced lawlessness, should be robustly dealt with. Back to the camp to get new documents! This is only one of the least worse solutions that could be discussed.
The most worrying thing about Calais to me is the potential invasion that it represents. Many of the migrants in Calais appear to be young men from Africa and the Middle or Far East. We have no idea how many of them are on assignment to cause mayhem in the UK. How many are militant Islamists who have been given their instructions. ‘Get to London at all costs where you will be given further instructions?’ We are beyond naive in our attitude to this issue.
We are now facing a vicious and utterly ruthless foe in the Middle East in the form of ISIS who have a plan to establish a caliphate. That caliphate no doubt has visions to be worldwide, for of course if you are a committed Islamist, the whole world is a mosque yet is divided into two, the house of war and the house of peace. If you are a good Moslem you are in the house of ‘peace’ but if you are in the house of war you are the kuffar or infidel, to be dhimmified, taxed and discriminated against until you bow the knee to Allah. How many ISIS fighters have smuggled themselves into every west European state and also into the U.S. through their southern border on the pretext of ‘asylum seeker’ or ‘economic migrant,’ but are now about to try to unleash terror and bloodshed on an unprecedented scale. This year has been full of warning signs, Paris, Copenhagen, Brussels, and of course Tunisia.
And then here he is again, the one man globalisation phenomenon, yes none other than Peter Sutherland, giving us the benefit of his all knowing wisdom on the subject. You can predict what is going to come out of his mouth. Now let me see, surely as day meets night, he will use the word ‘xenophobia’ at some point; his is the sort of trumpet herald we get from on high these days in the UK, making us of course ‘racist xenophobic little Englanders.’ I’d say that’s a flowery euphemism for ‘absolutely normal common sense thinking.’
Here is the article:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/11773836/Britain-xenophobic-to-demand-economic-migrants-kept-out-says-UN.html
If it is the first responsibility of any government to protect its own people, that means you discriminate in favour of your own people every time bar none. It goes without saying that you have to know exactly who is coming into your country so that you know they will not present any threat to your own nation.
I feel sorry for countries in mainland Europe that are much more at the sharp edge of what is going on. Imagine a country like Germany which is mostly landlocked and is taking massive numbers at present, or France which has a lengthy border with other European countries. You might count it as in the providence of God that we are an island, otherwise we would surely be finished as a nation by now. It should be far easier to police our own borders.
Having said this, we are coming to the end of an age. This is a new paradigm when the British people will have to contemplate doing things and taking the type of action that we thought was no longer needed, things that we perhaps deemed unacceptable in an ‘enlightened’ society based on human rights and tolerance. We live in a world which includes extreme wickedness which if it poses a threat to our heritage and culture must be dealt with very robustly and it will necessitate tough love and ruthlessness. Being nice won’t work any more. Instead we must do what is right for the sake of survival and for the sake of our children and grandchildren. Trouble is, have we forgotten how to fight? Interesting times!