PUBLIC despair at mass immigration continues to deepen. All around we can see the disastrous consequences of the state's wilful refusal to uphold our borders. Our national identity is disappearing, our civic infrastructure is grossly overstretched and our social cohesion has come under intolerable strain.
The UK is not able to support more migrants living here due to strains on infrastructure and welfare [GETTY]
Monday, December 09, 2013
Across the land there is rightly a
profound sense of injustice at how we have to support a growing army of
foreigners who have never contributed a penny to our country.
Politicians
are finally waking up to the people's fury. After years of flinging
charges of racism against anyone who objected to their colossal
experiment in social engineering they now like to indulge in tough rhetoric about immigration.
But
this supposed crack down is nothing more than another ridiculous
Westminster pantomime. No genuine action is planned to restore our
national integrity. The annual rate
of foreigners settling here is still running at more than 500,000. Next
year the number of arrivals is certain to increase dramatically when
29million people from Bulgaria and Romania, two of Europe's most
impoverished nations, are given full rights to live here under EU rules
on freedom of movement.
The truth is that for all their populist rhetoric politicians do not really want to restrict immigration.
They remain too wedded to the dogma of multi cultural diversity, too in thrall to the European Union, too attached to the destructive, misnamed "human rights" culture.
Brimming with self righteous vanity about their supposed tolerance they have turned our country into a soft touch,
where free loading, even criminal foreigners are treated by the state
with far more respect than decent, hard working Britons. Thanks to
ruinous policies our justice system
is now used as a battering ram against our civilisation, while our
benefits system is a magnet for alien parasites and fraudsters
The benefits system is being exploited by migrants who have no intention of working or finding a job [GETTY]
That
grim reality has been revealed all too clearly by a string of cases
over the week end, each of which illustrates how essential morality has
been destroyed by the state's perverse worship of the twin forces of
immigration and politically correct "human rights".
In
one of these scandalous cases a court decided that vicious Somalian
rapist Mustafa Abdullahi could not be deported from Britain despite
having been sentenced in 2007 to 10 years in prison for a violent sex
attack on a vulnerable woman.
Inevitably, given the endemic
leniency of the British justice system, Abdullahi served only half that
term. On his release a court ruled that he could not be sent home to
Somalia, partly on the grounds that his life would be in danger there
because he claimed to be a non practising Muslim, even though he had the
word "Allah" tattooed on his arm and chest, and partly because under
Article 8 of the European Human Rights Convention he had a "right" to a
family life since his mother and other relatives are living here.
The
impulse to protect this rapist shows how the state has been gripped by a
form of aggressive lunacy dressed up as compassion. Abdullahi abnegated
his rights when he repeatedly assaulted his victim and threatened to
kill her. In any case why on earth is this monster any responsibility of
ours? The same madness can be seen in another case where a court
decided that Ayan Ismail could not be deported, despite convictions for
identity fraud and a £91,000 benefit scam. Ismail, a Somalian who became
a Canadian citizen through marriage, never had any right to live here
permanently but because she has had four children here she is guarded by
the ridiculous human rights law.
Perhaps even more disturbing
was the case of blind pensioner and devout Christian Jane Phillips. A
Big Issue seller from Romania, Razvan Dumitru, stole £50 from her when
she was trying to give him a £1 donation.
Razvan Dumitru robbed a blind woman of £50 when she went into her purse to buy a Big Issue magazine [REX]
According
to several reports Dumitru, who has a conviction for mobile phone theft
and has been barred from several shops because of antisocial behaviour,
should not be allowed to sell the Big Issue at all because he lives in a
£250,000 house with his family and the magazine is meant to lend
support to the homeless.
Abuse of the Big Issue has become all
too common among Eastern Europeans, who use it as a vehicle to gain self
employed status and access to welfare benefits. It is estimated a third
of Big Issue vendors are Romanians. The case could almost be a metaphor
for modern Britain, where our innate decency is ruthlessly exploited.
Like Jane Phillips we end up being punished for good intentions.
The
entire immigration racket is a savage insult to the British public.
Effectively we are paying for the destruction of our own country. And
those bills will keep on rising as the Government acts as if we owe the
rest of the world a living.
Only last week it emerged that more
than 100 "asylum seekers" have been put up for nine weeks in a luxury
£125 a night hotel in Sale, Manchester, with the cost to the taxpayer
thought to have reached almost £300,000. Since when were disadvantaged
Britons ever put up in prestigious accommodation for weeks on end? And
more than 90 per cent of so called "asylum seekers" are bogus. They are
usually economic migrants rather than people genuinely fleeing
persecution.
We are all paying a terrible price for a mix of
spinelessness and dogma in the political class. Unless we have a change
in approach that leads to a real reduction in immigration our once great
nation is doomed.