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It's time to close the door. Britain must move towards a policy of zero net immigration
As so often, to mention the Falklands is to enter a strange world in which the Guardinistas would prefer British subjects to be left under the rule of foreign fascists than for Margaret Thatcher to be given any credit for having taken firm clear action to liberate them. Then from out of the woodwork come those who were happy to have Stalin as a wartime ally (as I was) but could not stomach Pinochet as a supporter. As for the Belgrano, it was an enemy warship capable of causing heavy British casualties. Had it stayed in port it would not have been sunk. After it was sunk, no Argentinian warship (and that included their powerful aircraft carrier) ventured into water deep enough for a submarine attack.There can be nothing but sadness at the needless loss of life. That has to be laid at the door of the Argentinian Generals, not those of us who determined to liberate the Falklands. As to the effect of the withdrawal of an all-but-unarmed arctic survey ship, well, I do not think she would have troubled the Belgrano for very long, but no doubt when the papers are published under the 30-year rule there will be more said about that. So to immigration. Let me be open about where I stand. These islands are our islands. They do not belong to the political classes, the European Commission, the United Nations, nor the government of the day. We live here and it is we, the people, who have the absolute right to decide who may, and who may not, come here and upon what conditions they come. That is probably enough to have me held under suspicion of racism and worse. But there is more to come. Immigration can, and in the past often has, brought benefits to the host population and to the immigrants. I am not thinking just of the Huguenots, nor the Jewish refugees fleeing from Hitler's national socialist persecution, nor the Poles, Czechs and Slovaks who played a critical if not decisive role in the Battle of Britain. More recently I have concluded that, although I was of the view that the Ugandan Asian refugees should have gone to India rather than come here, it is clear that they have been major contributors to the economy and society more generally. Again, I have no problem with the recent wave of central European migrants. Overwhelmingly, they have come here to work. They mostly pay their taxes. Many will return home; those who stay will integrate into our society. I know few more British men than some of my old aircrew friends, Jasinski, Kryzanowski, Schermak, Gelbaur, Grzybowski, and more whose grandchildren are utterly British but bear their names with pride. Oh, and I had bettter declare an interest. I have employed quite a few central Europeans to care for my wife. The characterisic that such immigrants have in common is at least an acceptance of our ways, and more often a sharing of the inheritance that has shaped our habits and culture here in this European offshore island. Not all immigation has been quite like that. It has at times been conducted in a way that has contributed to a specific purpose. No, please do not lump me in with the wilder conspiracy theorrists. Many social and political phenomena are not the result of conspiracies. There is no need of a conspiracy for the hungry to follow the smell of food. Nor does it need a conspiracy for rats to assemble in a sewer. Nor for that matter for those who favour rule by an "enlightened" elite to support any measures or changes that will break down the natural organic bonds of societry. Nor does it always have to go that far. The weak-kneed, new, modern Conservative Party of Macmillan lacked the will to sort out the trade unions, which were a major factor in our economic decline. They understood the problem but thought the solution might be unpopular with potential swing voters. Instead they set out to undermine the labour market by the importation of cheap labour from the Caribbean. I think that the massive, deliberate, uncontrolled, uncounted and often denied programme of mass immigration has more complex origins. There is within NuLab a detestation of much that is British quite unknown in the Labour Party of Attlee or Callaghan. It is often a form of self-hatred and guilt. Guilt about being born comfortably middle class, having been to a decent school and a private hospital. Guilt even about being born into a prosperous country with a glorious and proud history. Like Caliban, these people rage against their own image. Some of them are so sick that they see a paedophile behind every tree, global warming in every sunny day, a potential rapist in every man -- and find good livings in the fear and panic businesses. Nor should we forget the NuLab strategists who saw a huge immigrant population dependent on benefits as a sure source of votes. All of these impulses are exploited by the Eurofanatics who see this country and this nation as an impediment to the establishment of the Euro Republic, not to mention the world government freaks and those who are as fanatical against any concept of ethnic differences as the National Socialists were in their belief in the supremacy of those sharing their particular genes. Oh, and there are the religous fanatics determined to spread their zealotry across the world in the great caliphate Additional at the link. Posted by: Besoeker 2010-02-11 |
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