As a schoolboy, I had an eccentric teacher who steadfastly refused to own a television, believing such items to be innate sources of moral corruption for the young. One year, we asked him what he was getting his two children for Christmas. He revealed his boys had been begging him non-stop for a new Sega Saturn videogames console to such a point that, finally, he had given in. Wrapped up waiting for them beneath that year’s Christmas tree would be just such a brand new piece of advanced consumer electronics, and several much-desired games to go with it… but no TV set to actually play any of them on, thus rendering the whole purchase intentionally completely pointless. He could not wait, he said, to see the mixture of despair, confusion and anger on their little faces come December 25th, thereby “to teach them the true meaning of greed” at festive time.
Naturally, we began to call this strange man ‘Scrooge’. But is ‘being a total Scrooge’ really as bad a thing as it is usually made out to be? Not when it comes to the issue of mass immigration.
Ebenezer Good
Every Christmas, our TV sets (should, unlike my old teacher, you actually own one) remind us endlessly of Ebenezer Scrooge’s status as one of Charles Dickens’s most famous fictional creations. From this, we get the distinct impression Dickens thought all misers to be Muppets, the great author being thus also logically in favour of all forms of charity. Not so. In my opinion, one Dickensian figure who should be much better known is the somewhat more obscure Mrs. Jellyby from his 1853 novel Bleak House, a deeply misguided practitioner of ‘Telescopic Philanthropy’ whose main chosen cause of charitable concern is actually her own self-trumpeted conscience.
Obsessed with a completely ineffective scheme for improving the benighted natives of the far-off African settlement of Borrioboola-Gha, visible only by aid of imaginative telescope, Mrs. Jellyby neglects not merely the teeming London poor who surround her, but also her own family, leaving her children unwashed, bankrupting her husband and sending him into such fits of suicidal depression he just sits there, bashing his head against the wall and hoping to die.
As Dickens aptly wrote of Mrs. J: “She was a pretty, very diminutive plump woman, of from 40 to 50, with handsome eyes, though they had a curious habit of seeming to look a long way off. As if… they could see nothing nearer than Africa!”
Although supposedly of boundless generosity, in fact Mrs Jellyby’s compassion is curiously narrow. She is incredibly, ostentatiously, concerned about the poor dusky waifs of Borrioboola-Gha, but couldn’t give a figgy pudding about those many thousands of other poverty-stricken white urchins wandering the London streets around her in tattered rags. Instead, she has settled upon maniacally championing a certain specific chosen designated victim-group above all others, even to her own kith and kin’s immense personal disadvantage and harm.
Seemingly, Dickens based Mrs. Jellyby upon certain self-sabotaging, foreigner-obsessed, white virtue-signallers of his day, like Mrs Caroline Chisholm. Had he been writing today, Dickens would surely have based his character instead upon similar morally blind public cheerleaders for disastrous open-door mass immigration and counterproductive yet highly expensive foreign aid like Gary Lineker.
You’ve Got To Be Cruella To Be Kind
Which public figure might Dickens have based Scrooge on were the writer himself still alive and nib-scrawling in the 21st century, though? If you listen to most mainstream commentators, it would surely have been Suella Braverman, whose ‘Cruella’ nickname, gained largely from her sadly unsuccessful efforts to prevent the continued invasion of countless thousands of fake asylum seekers onto Britain’s shores, is intended as a slur, but only endears her to me personally all the more.
According to one typically negative profile in the Guardian, “As the daughter of [legal, fully integrated, financially solvent, non-criminal] immigrants, the Home Secretary’s hostility to migrants can seem not only cruel but unfathomable”, making her into “The face of Cruel Britannia”.
Another columnist in the Evening Standard, noting how ‘Cruella’ wanted to make MPs sit over the festive period to push through emergency legislation enabling the actual deportation of small-boats invaders to Rwanda, unimaginatively called her “The Grinch” who wanted to “cancel Christmas”.
Tough Love, Actually
Another candidate for Scroogeness might be Braverman’s former Home Office sidekick Robert Jenrick, or “Robert Ebenezer Jenrick Scrooge” as one blogger dubbed him, due to his allegedly draconian decision back in April to order murals of anthropomorphic cartoon animals like Mickey Mouse and Baloo the Bear be whitewashed over in a Kent asylum centre for unaccompanied children on the grounds they projected too welcoming a message (although as the visual depiction of animals is considered haram in certain strains of Islam, maybe he was just being commendably culturally aware here?)
Staff were reportedly “horrified” by this “cruel order”, and initially tried to refuse doing as they were told, like typical civil servants these days, whilst a Private Eye cartoonist hyperbolically offered to repaint them, as “it’s all you can do about this kind of evil”. Outraged children’s author Philip Pullman lifted what sounded like a quote about Scrooge straight from A Christmas Carol, calling Jenrick’s action “Cold, cruel, the act of a soul that’s shrivelled and mean to its core”, whilst Michael Rosen, the professional Left-wing propagandist and former Children’s Laureate, furiously typed out a parody of Auden’s ‘Stop All the Clocks’, entitled ‘Paint Over Mickey Mouse’.
If these seemed like performative acts of moral outrage made for all the world to see and click ‘like’ to on Twitter, then Polly Toynbee in the Guardian preferred to call Jenrick’s action (which was actually revealed by a pro-refugee activist, rather than being intentionally announced by the man himself) nothing more than “performative politics for imagined Right-wing voters”. Was it really?
The Finish for Finland, or Finland for the Finnish?
It seems numerous pseudo-conservative MPs these days would agree with such an assessment. After Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch accurately compared transgenderism in schools to an “epidemic” disease, some were quoted as condemning such “nasty, anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric”, or arguing that “if we want people to vote for us, we should stop being such a nasty party”. No, MP Jellyby, maybe you should start being a nasty party for once. Far from being purely “imagined voters”, as Polly Toynbee fantasises, there are plenty of people out there who want nothing but harsh policies on immigration and asylum.
A new opinion survey out in Finland last week, for example, asked Finns the following question:
Are you in favour of, or opposed to, the following idea: Finland ceases accepting asylum seekers and quota refugees and allocates the freed-up funds to help refugees in refugee camps outside of Finland.
Responses showed 46% agreed with the idea, 41% opposed it and 13% were either undecided or declined to comment (I would guess because they did actually agree with it, but had been systematically guilt-shamed not to publicly admit to saying so). Amongst those respondents who identified themselves as voters for the nationalist conservative Finns Party, 84% said “Yes, don’t let them in!”, whilst 59% and 55% of centre-Right party supporters concurred. Of centrist voters overall, around half agreed. Even 21-36% of voters for various Left-wing parties like the Greens agreed with keeping everyone non-European out: even genuine asylum seekers.
So, far from Right-wing European voters who want a harsh attitude towards refugees being wholly “imagined” within the dead, Scrooge-like mind of Robert Jenrick, as Polly Toynbee implied, this is in fact the majority opinion amongst conservative-minded Finnish voters, and perfectly mainstream amongst all others too. Surveys consistently show the very same pattern amongst voters in the U.K. too.
It’s Scrooge or Be Screwed
Please do note that, at least according to how the survey question was phrased, native Finns were actually quite happy for some of their tax money to go towards supporting genuine refugees fleeing for their actual lives in camps abroad: they just didn’t want them living over there in Finland. Why not?
Well, it might be because, by all accounts, figures demonstrate that migrants in Finland take more money out of social welfare systems than they put in, being a net drain on public resources. It might be to do with the way that Finnish schools are tumbling down world league tables, again partly due to the presence of large numbers of immigrant students who speak a different language, holding everyone else back. It might be due to rising rates of crime, sexual assault and gang violence in immigrant-populated areas. Or it might be due to the fact that, just in time for Christmas, a 13-year-old girl was recently raped by an older immigrant boy in broad daylight, in her own school, in a small town in Father Christmas’s traditional native residence of Lapland.
Why should the Lapps just keep on quietly Lapping up the “nightmare called multiculturalism” that the Africa-gazing Mrs. Jellybys of their political class have short-sightedly unleashed upon them with their defective moral telescopes? Christmas is indeed a time for giving, but surely not for giving away your entire country.
But don’t forget – Diversity is Our Strength, say the Mrs. Jellybys of this world. I would disagree. It’s not really ‘charity’ if you’re taking tax money from people and then openly and contemptuously spending it on policies those very same taxpayers overwhelmingly don’t want and which then only end up making their own lives far worse, from no greater motive than to make you feel good about yourself. That isn’t charity. It’s pure sadism.
Myself, I actively long for the option to vote for a genuinely ‘Nasty Party’ (even one officially called that) led by unsympathetic, flint-souled figures like Ebenezer Jenrick and Cruella Braverman, rather than the professionally #BeKind pseudo-conservatives who actually pull the strings in today’s utterly misnamed ‘Conservative’ Party.
I’d far rather vote for Mr. No-Heart Scrooge than Mrs Bleeding-Heart Jellyby any day of Christmas. In the end, Scrooge is just far kinder.
Steven Tucker is a journalist and the author of over 10 books, the latest being Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science: When Science Fiction Was Turned Into Science Fact by the Nazis and the Soviets (Pen & Sword/Frontline), which is out now.
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The fact is that Fishy and Co do not give a damn about what the French are doing. In fact it must be concluded that our government is complicit in the illegal movement of people. The British government is making no efforts whatsoever to put an end to this business and the conclusion must be that too many are profiting either directly or indirectly.
Analysis leads to the deduction that what are being perpetrated are acts of treason by those nominally in charge. Hardly a revelatory point to make four years in to their great reset but that is what is going on.
There is nothing complicated about stopping dinghies pulling up on our beaches so another story is playing out and that is a deliberate intention to undermine the British people and the civilisation in its broadest terms which constitutes the make up of these islands.
This won’t end well.
I think a quiet agreement was reached with the EU as part of the Brino negotiations that the UK would “take its fair share” of the criminal migrants.
For the sake of appearances, Sunak is pretending he wants to stop them and Macron pretends he is trying.
It’s the only thing which explains the close co-operation/co-ordination between the Border Farce and the French authorities.
A vote in the forthcoming GE for ANY establishment party is a vote of approval of current and continuance of mass illegal and legal immigration to these shores.
Altering the demographic to make the population more plyable and easier to control, no sovereignty, no belief in pride of place or history just a malleable citizenry prime for leadership by the new world government, its happening right across the west and is no accident
”We definitely need more people like this, not less. And what is happening across most of the West is really the most effective way of both getting and keeping these quality immigrants. For it is a fact that no matter what they do in the form of crimes we still need to hang onto them at all costs because we need the numbers.” Said no rational person, ever. Can I just sound like I’m victim-blaming a sec, though I’m not intending to, but if you’re naive, thick or ignorant enough to welcome a complete stranger, especially if that stranger is from a majority Death Cult country, then you’re potentially in for a world of pain and signing your own death warrant, are you not? This article details a few examples of what happened to so-called ‘good Samaritans’. None of them scream, ”I’m here for a better life and to integrate into European culture” to me;
”A 25-year-old homeless Algerian migrant has been arrested and charged for allegedly kidnapping, beating and raping a 49-year-old French woman in Saint-Herblain, near Nantes, after she worked with the man “for years” to help him.
The victim was raped in an ordeal that lasted from Friday evening all the way into Saturday morning, with the man forcibly keeping her inside the apartment until she managed to escape and alert police.
Prosecutors say the man broke into her home with a knife and held the victim captive. The victim’s husband and children were not home during the incident.
The homeless migrant was arrested inside the victim’s home on Saturday morning and was held in custody over the weekend. On Monday, he was brought before a judge to be indicted.
“Sometimes I control myself, sometimes I don’t control myself,” he told the judge during his indictment.
The news follows a trend of good Samaritans who take migrants into their homes or work with migrants being targeted for rape and murder.
Also last year, a failed Iranian asylum seeker was sentenced to prison after brutally murdering a frail 87-year-old woman who took him into her home in the English county of North Yorkshire.
Another murder in 2023 saw an Albanian migrant kill his French host over an argument over religion and then send a photo of the murder scene to an acquaintance over Snapchat.
In yet another incident in 2023, an Algerian woman stabbed her host three times in the throat for unknown reasons outside Paris, resulting in the death of the French citizen.”
https://rmx.news/crime/sometimes-i-control-myself-sometimes-i-dont-control-myself-homeless-algerian-migrant-charged-with-kidnapping-and-raping-french-woman-who-helped-him/
There seems to be an alarming increase in violent attacks against elderly and very elderly women in their homes in France carried out by migrant men. There are also increasing attacks on teachers in French schools resulting in one Mayor in in the town of Marignane stating that teachers in schools should be supplied with attack alarms.
Or a baton, taser, pepper spray etc.
Well I’m sure the French are more than happy to get rid of these people, so why would they take them back? The best solution would be to persuade the French that they are best off stopping these people entering in France in the first place.
Well exactly. Which reminded me of this laughable situation. Of course the NGOs would call it ”crimes against humanity” if you do your job of stopping illegals entering your country to the best of your ability. I mean, this is a gravy train for the human-traffickers isn’t it, with no end in sight. Not now we’ve got this godawful ‘migration pact’ over here;
”Two NGOs have filed a complaint of “complicity in crimes against humanity” against the EU’s former head of border management, Fabrice Leggeri, just weeks before he is expected to be elected as an MEP for the national conservative Rassemblement National (RN).
His alleged crime? Trying to prevent illegal immigrants entering the EU. Which many might think sounds like doing his job as head of Frontex, the EU border management agency.
The NGOs filed the civil complaint against Leggeri in Paris on Monday, alleging that he engaged in human rights abuses by obstructing open border groups operating on the Mediterranean and enabling so-called ‘pushback’ operations against illegal migrants during his tenure leading Frontex between 2015 and 2022.
The claims centre around Frontex’s cooperation with the Libyan coastguard when Leggeri was at the helm. NGOs allege that returning the migrants to Libya made Leggeri and the organisation potentially complicit in “crimes against humanity”.
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/left-ngos-accuse-former-eu-border-chief-of-crimes-against-humanity/
Dinghy manufacturers must be doing well in some places. They must know the score or is there some water sport craze going round with dinghies in Northern France.
What we need is one of these bad boys. I’m thinking of getting one off Amazon to take to the next hate march. That’ll sort them out. At all other times it’ll be my guard dog, and you don’t even have to scoop the poop. Though I don’t know how my cat will take to this new addition…Black Mirror vibes, lol;
https://twitter.com/TexasLindsay_/status/1782791691209978219
A convert friend of mine, ex forces, on viewing the kettling of the Patriots yesterday suggested marbles. Apparently they sort the horses no problem.
Ben Habab was bang on the money by talking about pushing back boats, even sinking them if necessary. Too much for JHB. How many more crimes, rapes would be a red line for her!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ik-WDwdf1g
Talk Radio is owned by News Corp. Like the GB News owners they rely on keeping on the right side of the Uber woke advertising agencies that select where to advertise their clients products/services. Also, there is the politicised Ofcom factor to consider. They brought GB News to their subservient knees.
Methinks, JHB will have received a prompt in her ear piece from her editor to loudly denigrate Ben Habibs illegal boats solution.
Also News Corp is current publisher of The Times. We know how rabid they were over the vaccine mandates.
It is a worldwide scam and Britain is the most lucrative target. It consists of poor countries around the world offloading their poverty stricken and the criminally-minded in essence to save the cost of incarceration. The British love cheap labour perhaps more than any other western country – a few minor pecadilloes can be easily overlooked and so it is a marriage made in heaven if you are a member of the ruling rent-seeking class but quite the opposite if you are anyone else. It really is that squalid.
They use your country as a cash cow and a toilet and hope that you don’t notice. Of course it has been growing for years. My impression is that people in England are rather naive about the nature of this situation. All you need to bear mind is that our system is run by ruthless predators and that the few freedoms we have left exist only because they haven’t gotten around to destroying them yet. You can see the acceleration in the success of their agenda. At some point it can no longer be tolerated because it represents our total destruction.
It seems they have overplayed their hand regarding the WHO backtracking. Would be interesting to find out what rumbled them on that matter.
The only people we should blame for this border collapse is the hand wringing Political class of UN and WEF lackeys signed up to every global treaty going. They long ago stopped serving the people and now serve the global government that seek to control the worlds wealth and resources and who realise that having us all feel just like citizens of the world is best achieved by eroding National Identity with mass immigration. So we don’t feel French or German or British anymore. We are just good global citizens told how to think and act by technocrats we never voted for.
All that will be left of the Italians is the recipe for pizza!
Two weeks ago a small boat came from the Belgian coast. The Belgian coastguard asked them to turn around, which they refused. It was thought too dangerous to force a turnaround, so the Belgian coastguard decided to escort them into U.K. waters….
So is the British one. They are facilitating it with the French.
The French state is nothing more than a WEF puppet, doing as they are told, UK not far behind, ask penny.
When the Conservative Party finally decided who was going to be PM he(or she) should have sufficient briefing on the situation on the ground in France to realise that the migrant crisis is so bad there that the Police simply cannot deal with the crime and criminal gangs that are operating all over France. While that situation has devastating consequences for the people of France, the criminal trafficking gangs operating in the Calais region are having devastating consequences for us in the neighbouring country UK.
The new PM together with the new Home Secretary, Foreign & Defence secretaries should have gone to meet Macron immediately and point this out to him in the bluntest way and told him to deal with this situation by deploying the French Military across the Calais region.
Give him a deadline and if that doesn’t happen then the UK may have to defend its territory by sending OUR troops to the beaches there.
What created this was the EU. ——-They are the United Nations star pupil phony planet saving open border cesspit that is causing Europe to self destruct and destroy its own identity by importing every bit of sectarian clutter from all corners of the globe. We are being invaded now because the EU opened us up to the whole planet and it is now beyond ever being fixed. ——-Read all about it in “While Europe Slept” by Bruce Bawer
What created this was the EU. ——-They are the United Nations star pupil phony planet saving open border cesspit that is causing Europe to self destruct and destroy its own identity by importing every bit of sectarian clutter from all corners of the globe. We are being invaded now because the EU opened us up to the whole planet and it is now beyond ever being fixed. ——-Read all about it in “While Europe Slept” by Bruce Bawer