Speaking at a conference in Rome last weekend, alongside Italian PM Giorgia Melonia, Rishi Sunak noted the importance of tackling illegal immigration. Really Prime Minister? He repeated the usual platitudes: it is not for criminal gangs to decide who comes to Britain; countries must control their borders; illegal immigrants should not be allowed to stay (just as in Britain, Prime Minister?)
The speech was rewarded with polite applause.
The Prime Minister did, however, go on to say something of greater interest.
[If this] requires us to update our laws and lead an international conversation to amend post-war frameworks around asylum then we must do that.
Heaven preserve us from international conversations, especially if they are under the auspices of the United Nations, as this one will very likely be.
But we mustn’t be churlish. I can’t immediately recall other British Prime Ministers ever calling into question the suitability for today’s circumstances of (by implication) the Refugee Convention and the European Convention of Human Rights. So, well done Mr. Sunak. But might we also respectfully suggest that the conversation in the U.K. could begin with a close look at our Human Rights Act 1998, a millstone placed around the U.K.’s neck by none other than Sir Tony Blair?
Indeed, it is the progressive interpretation and faithful implementation of rules underpinned by conventions designed for a very different era and needs which have laid the foundations of the refugee crisis now engulfing Europe and North America.
However, as I have already said, it was all nod and wink, nudge, nudge stuff. The Prime Minister did not refer to specific conventions. Although, his audience understood perfectly well what he meant by the ‘post-war framework’. Still, he didn’t spell out what exactly he was referring to, he was clear that Britain would lead a conversation on it. Given that Downing Street hasn’t released a transcript of his remarks or uploaded a recording of the speech (see here for a sketchy version from Sky News), we are left wondering if he really meant whatever it was that he was referring to. Indeed, in the only public press release from his trip to Rome, there is no mention of the ‘conversation’.
The Prime Minister does not seem to understand that the public are utterly fed up with vague pronouncements. Where’s the beef, Prime Minister? What about some action? Enough of platitudes, already!
In Europe, however, while several states await the eventual outcome of the Rwanda plan to see if it ever comes to fruition, there have been some noteworthy developments.
This week saw French legislators approve Emmanuel Macron’s immigration overhaul, albeit revised in a way that the President did not approve. He has had to accept wide-ranging revision of legislation, driven by Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party.
Immigrants will now have to have been resident in France for five years before gaining access to welfare, or 30 months if employed. Additionally, citizenship will no longer be automatically granted to the children of migrants. Family reunification rules have been tightened, while work visas will be issued more sparingly to asylum seekers. You can read more about the legislation here.
Meanwhile, the European Union, after years of negotiation, has agreed a new migration pact for the bloc. The measures include:
- the detention of asylum seekers likely to be rejected at border-adjacent detention centres, where the aim is to fast-track asylum claims by processing them within three months and swiftly removing those whose applications are rejected
- the requirement of asylum seekers, including children as young as six years-old, to provide biometric data
- the re-direction of funds from Mediterranean rescue missions towards tougher border security and surveillance.
Additionally, the EU agreed a €150 million deal with Tunisia to prevent migrant flows through the North African state.
While neither the French nor European measures are likely to reduce migration flows, they are moves in the right direction. You can read more about the EU changes here.
The French legislation and EU measures are reasonable and sensible. EU Member States such as Austria, Denmark, Italy, Greece, Hungary, The Netherlands and perhaps Sweden may even be prepared to go further. What is baffling, however, is that while France is ready to countenance tougher measures to deal with illegal immigration and bogus asylum seekers, it is not willing to prevent migrants from setting off illegally from its shores or to take back those who succeed en route to the U.K. Doing so might at least reduce the numbers entering France with the intention of heading for the Pas-de-Calais.
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The Marxist technocrats in charge want open borders, period. These latest policy changes are platitudes intended to gaslight a sceptical and rebellious public. It would be very easy to detain and return economic migrants if that was what they actual wanted. Instead they house them, give them money, health and dental care. they even give them a phone. not much of a deterrent.
Indeed, and then there’s legal migration which is arguably a bigger problem. Importing randoms is not a great idea, but importing “carefully chosen” people en masse still dilutes our culture, regardless of how wonderful they are as people.
The illegals are the “carefully chosen” ones: barbarian men of fighting age.
The legals are more random: people who can be claimed to be filling shortages in the labour market, plus their extended families.
The USA is in a much better position: their illegals are largely Christian.
I think in practice both sets are fairly random.
You probably rate Christianity higher than I do. I don’t think we need any more of any of them, but I would rather, for example, millions of Japanese than millions of Mexicans or others from Latin America (few if any of them are descended wholly from Spanish and Portuguese people).
I’m afraid that I don’t regard orientals as human in the sense we are: they strike me as more like giant mammalian termite equivalents.
I look at it like this – if I got expelled from the UK tomorrow, would I rather live in Japan or one of the countries that supplies most of the illegals to the USA. Probably Japan, though I would much rather live here or in the USA or somewhere in Europe (probably more east or central than west these days, and would formerly have said Canada or Aus or NZ but they are off my list). Not China, Korea maybe. But it’s all academic – we can’t choose, we’ll be swamped and that’s it.
The countries that are supplying illegals to the USA are getting rid of the worst elements of their populations. In particular, their tattoed psychopathic criminals.
They’ll be much nicer as a result.
I’d prefer Uruguay or Costa Rica to Japan.
“I’d prefer Uruguay or Costa Rica to Japan.”
With you 100% there. Costa Rica was one of few countries that remained open to travel by the unvaxxed/untested.
According to Google “Replacement Theory is one of the most dangerous conspiracy theories” but numbers don’t lie. Google lies. We will soon be a minority, by design.
Indeed. The intention behind it may be a “theory” but the end result is fact not theory.
Not by design. That’s just something that’s happening. The only way to reverse this trend would be to wean couples off contraceptives, ie, get them to replace their sex lifes with family lifes. That’s unlikely to happen and hence, the other is going to.
To be able to easily deport economic migrants there needs to be a simple and easily enforceable definition of who is likely to be an economic migrant rather than a genuine refugee. This should be based purely on a persons country of origin where only a very limited number of countries e.g. Afghanistan are classed as unsafe. Every other country would then be classed as safe meaning that anyone from these countries isn’t going to be facing an unreasonable level of persecution or risk to their life if they were returned to that country.
Then there’s the fake asylum seekers that are blatantly playing the system because they go back to their home countries for holidays and weddings. Needless to say, if you’re fleeing war and persecution you wouldn’t be in a hurry to go back for your next vacation. These frauds should be banned from returning to the UK, or wherever granted them asylum;
”Phil Douglas said his officers had been left shocked when carrying out exit checks on people leaving the UK.
LBC got an exclusive look behind the scenes at how Border Force operates at Luton airport – one of the busiest for Eastern European airlines in the run up to Christmas.
He said: “We do find a lot of people who have claimed asylum in this country, and are heading back to their own country for holidays, which obviously isn’t allowed.”
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/migrants-applying-for-asylum-are-going-home-for-christmas/
I’ve once seen a German politician (from the Green Party) justifying that Syrians who supposedly fled to Germany for protection then go back to Syria for vacation with “Well, there isn’t war all over Syria!”.
They know they have no chance and so seek to try and conjure something up out of raw emotion. They positively encourage mass immigration of the worst kind because it suits them on many levels which aren’t too difficult to glean. With this political class in charge the dynamics will remain exactly the same despite any cosmetics. It is written into their interests- they can’t behave otherwise. We have have a vicious feedback loop to contend wih which means that things will get worse at a faster and faster rate. You have to grasp the nature and entirety of the situation.
https://thenewconservative.co.uk/a-letter-from-rishi/
And here’s a supplement from Fishy.
So out of ideas he is forced to regurgitate an old idea of Call me Dave’s.
Pathetic doesn’t come close.
New Conservative. “Our mission is simple: to force the Conservative Party to honour its name (by the adoption of genuine conservative values), or to lend our support to those more inclined to do so. While there are undoubtedly many within the Party who share our concerns, the Executive is not upholding the wishes of the electorate – it must”.
What dreamers at the New Conservatives!
Only through electoral destruction of this wretched party can we hope for Conservatism to emerge from their ashes.
This party is terminally rotten to its very core.
It’s essential to break up what’s left of community spirit here and they have made immense progress in the last five years. Those Iceni or those Christian monks who kept the flame alive – all dead soon. Decades of the canniblisation of your own people so that now you have nothing left to fight with. Talk is nothing. Wait and see.
Resistance to this agenda is very difficult. All the more difficult because it is so time critical. Every year a small city’s worth of people come in and that’s just the recorded legal ones. The saddest thing about these changes is that they are forever. All of the other conspiracies you can at least contemplate a time where remedy might be made but this just does ongoing damage. Like when Ireland allowed the American corporations in I think around 1992 onwards. These are serious matters.
He, they, couldn’t give a phlying phuque. He, they, don’t have to deal with the consequences of mass, uncontrolled, illegal immigration or the two tier policing that facilitates the criminality that somehow accompanies it.
Two thirds of your population are already beggars. Do you really want to make them even worse off? You need to cut a bit of slack otherwise you will have an overboiling of public sentiment. Not a wise move and don’t assume that you will be able to jet off to your mates estate in the Carribean. Airports and air services require large numbers of people to run them, This is the trouble with elite classes in the endtimes they simply cannot see it. A retreat into Versailles or a sense that their system is somehow above attack.
Things are not bad enough for revolution yet, but with open borders, net zero and cost of living crisis they could well get there in a couple of years.
Wishful thinking to think any of this is anything more than a sop to voters
What really worries me is that, at nearly 63, I’m still fit and healthy and taking no medication.
I’d much prefer societal collapse to happen now rather than in 15 years time.
The same is essentially true for my dad and he’s 21 years older than you. OMG! It’s Old Age!! is another of those massively overrated (overfeared is perhaps better) crazy American ideas.
Gottlieb Graf von Haeseler (Graf is German for count) was a Prussian officer born in 1836 and saw active service in the wars of 1864, 1866 and 1870/71. He remained an active officer until the age of 67 in 1903. In 1914, at the age of 78, he was a regular visitor to the battlefront of the XVI army corps he had commanded until retirement. This meant he rode to the command post or the front line or the staff head quarter of the corps on his own horse and – due to his old age – was sometimes provided with a chair so that he could sit when everybody else was standing.
At the battle of Lepanto, the commanding admiral of the Christian fleet was 80. When the battle had turned into a chaos of ship – ship melee engagements after the initial clash of the galleys, he spent the remainder of it standing in the bow of his flagship and shooting enemy soldiers with crossbows as fast as his aides could pass loaded crossbows to him.
More empty words.
Another problem is so-called ‘minors’ seeking asylum. Not sure about the UK figures but there’s an increase here in the Netherlands. The problem is that they can’t be deported and they are entitled to apply for family reunification, and these people often have large families so a shed-load more get shipped over. This is why claiming to be underage is such an incentive for these migrants, but by the same token it should follow that there is more incentive on the authorities to establish, using investigations such as these bone tests, the actual age of the individual migrant, in the absence of any I.D. There’s plenty of evidence going back years that the majority of applicants claiming to be children are in fact adults. Establishing their actual age really should not be beyond the realms of possibility in this day and age.
”The number of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum in the Netherlands has been increasing, with over 5,400 applications up to November this year, compared to about 4,200 in 2022 and 2,200 in 2021, NOS reported on Thursday.
The proportion of unaccompanied minors within the total asylum applications in the Netherlands has risen to 16 percent this year, up from 9 percent in 2015. The WODC institute is presenting research on the motivations of these young asylum seekers to the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch parliament, on Thursday.
Since 2019, there’s been an increase in unaccompanied minors arriving in the Netherlands and across Europe. Often, parents send their eldest child, who can withstand the tough journey, ahead when they cannot afford to flee with the entire family, while the father stays behind to care for the remaining family members.
According to previous IND research, 80 percent of unaccompanied minors who are allowed to stay in the Netherlands apply for family reunification. But family reunification is not always the primary objective; sometimes, children are sent away for their safety. Youths restricted by religious or conservative norms are also more likely to decide to leave on their own.”
https://nltimes.nl/2023/12/21/5400-underage-asylum-seekers-arrived-alone-year-29
Already I have seen the dismantling of your own people. Why do you do that to your own people, the English people are the most interesting with a good sense of humour and you treat them like rubbish. If you can treat your own people like that then you deserve destruction.
Don’t big yourself up at the expense of your countrymen. A lot of programming. You really need to stand up for your own people now,
‘Sunak says’
‘Sunak does’.
A world of difference between the two.
He is walking the clock down on the 80 seat majority until another globalist/Unaparty agent picks up the baton.
Giorgia Meloni was very loud against immigration and was thus voted into office. In the meantime nothing has changed. Another globalist, presumably.