One of the most thoughtful, intelligent and balanced articles that I have ever read on illegal migration and the small boats crisis. Kudos to @matthewsyed for this:
โYour first duty is to serve your own citizens. Not people from Eritrea, Somalia, Afghanistan or Nigeria. The British people.
Oh, and the nation you serve is not just a territory. It is a home. Our home. It is where we live and work, and where ritual, community, family, and other concepts we might assemble under the rubric of "culture" come together to weave the fabric of a life. Our life. The only life we have and which unfolds in concord with those with whom we share it.
Without borders, we are not a nation, and without a nation, we are nothing.
We are but tribes or clans, scattered here and there, pipsqueak groups unable to operate at scale or to defend what is precious. To open our borders in the name of "compassion" to people, some of whom hate our values and wish to destroy them, is to place your virtue above our safety. It is a form of self-annihilating madness dressed up as enlightenment.
Only the myopic will infer from the above that I am in favour of slamming the doors to those in need.โ
Hereโs the full article in The Sunday Times.
The state is doing all it can to take possession of everything - all you have now and all you might need in the future. They would make it that you can have and do nothing but what they permit. This is the audacity of the state now.
We arenโt short of workers in the uk. We are short of people who donโt want the government taking everything from hard workers. There is no incentive to work when you get everything for free. And why work when you get it taken from you and given to those who wonโt work. These people arenโt stupid they are doing what people do. I donโt blame them. I blame the government. This springs to mind.
@piersmorgan Your fault - like all the rich/famous political classes kept quiet about uncontrolled migration for decades. One day it will bite you all on the arse xx
This is absolutely disgusting.
What the hell has Britain become when we treat our elderly so appallingly? Having myself been through a similar fractured femur injury recently, she must have been in agony, the poor woman. Shameful.