THE British people have a long history of opening their arms and their wallets to those suffering from tyranny, war or disease in far-flung countries around the globe.
We have a strong track record of donations to disaster relief funds and for welcoming those fleeing from danger to our shores, whether they be Ugandan Asians in the 1970s, Afghan interpreters who worked with British troops in the war, or Ukrainian mothers and children fleeing Putin’s bombs in the 2020s.
Britain is OUR home first & foremost – PM’s first duty of care is to us NOT the rest of the world[/caption]
But after years of seeing our charity thrown back in our faces, our generosity exploited and our borders treated as an open door, I’m afraid that our bleeding hearts are now bled dry.
Yes, we will always stand by those less fortunate, but that doesn’t mean we have to welcome everyone who wants a better life to make Britain their home.
Because this is OUR home first and foremost and, while we may feel a duty of care to people fleeing persecution or war, that does not mean they have a God-given right to come and live here.
If that sounds cruel and heartless, then so be it. But I am pretty sure that I am not alone in thinking that way.
Indeed, the evidence grows day by day that this is increasingly the view of the long-suffering British public after years of watching tens of thousands of asylum seekers arrive on our shores to live at our expense with barely any chance of ever being sent home.
So it was fascinating that yesterday, at the Court of Appeal, lawyers for the Home Office let the cat out of the bag when they made the startling claim that the rights of asylum seekers are more important than those of British people worried about the safety of children in their own community.
Startling claim
That shouldn’t really surprise anyone given Labour’s track record on illegal migration, with more than 50,000 new arrivals since Keir Starmer became PM.
Promises to “smash the gangs” and end migrant hotels have all come to nothing as this Government puts the human rights of the rest of the world over the rights of homegrown Brits.
The Home Office lawyers said the quiet bit out loud, arguing that Home Secretary Yvette Cooper’s statutory duty to the human rights of asylum seekers under the European Convention on Human Rights trumped those of the residents of Epping, in Essex, who have protested for the local Bell Hotel to stop housing illegal migrants following allegations of sexual assaults on young girls by two residents of the hotel.
Charges have been brought against two men, with one case currently ongoing in the courts.
This is precisely why I and so many others have had enough.
And why so many of us cheered with relief when Nigel Farage announced Reform UK’s policy to detain and deport every illegal arrival and, over five years, deport up to 600,000 migrants living here illegally after arriving on boats, hidden in lorries or overstaying their visas.
Of course Farage’s announcement was greeted with horror by the usual hand-wringing liberals who dominate Britain’s political and media establishment.
“But these are desperate people fleeing for their lives!” they cried, even as millions of Brits were also “desperately fleeing” from France over the Channel on their way home from their summer holidays.
We’ve had more than 50,000 new arrivals since Keir Starmer became PM despite his promise to ‘smash the gangs’[/caption]
After all, more than a third of the world’s eight billion people live under nasty authoritarian regimes. Should we take all of them?[/caption]
Because, unlike many of the thousands of migrants accommodated in British hotels and bedsits at the taxpayers’ vast expense, we didn’t get off the boat yesterday.
We know that the majority of new arrivals are economic migrants, not desperate refugees.
Most people also know that — despite the nonsense spewed by the BBC, Sky News Channel 4 and the Guardian — our country is not responsible for everything that has ever gone wrong in the world and that the British Empire isn’t to blame for the kleptocratic, corrupt, incompetent governments in our former colonies today.
The bleeding hearters who criticise not just Farage but also the good people of Epping, and many others who’ve protested against migrant hotels in their communities, need to answer a simple question:
If you believe we have a duty of care to anyone and everyone fleeing conflict, a tyrannical regime or poverty, then exactly how many of those people do you propose that we should take?
Tiny island nation
After all, more than a third of the world’s eight billion people live under nasty authoritarian regimes. Should we take all of them? Then there are the two billion people living in areas impacted by conflict.
Are we offering refuge to them too?
And what about the one in ten people on the planet who live in extreme poverty.
Do they all get a free place in a British asylum hotel as well?
So just how many of them should our tiny island nation of 70million people take? Is it just those who pay the people- smugglers to get on a Channel dinghy or anyone who wants to come here?
I don’t need an exact number — just one to maybe the nearest ten million would do.
Don’t expect an answer any time soon.
But Starmer, Yvette Cooper and their bevy of human rights lawyers would be wise to remember that the British government’s first duty of care is to the British people, not to the rest of the world.
PAYING FOR NET ZERO MADNESS
THE summer is almost over and soon we’ll be putting the central heating back on, when once again we will face yet another energy bill hike.
This time Ofgem has announced a £35 rise in the energy cap for the average household – up to an eye-watering £1,755 a year from October.
And as per usual, the ministry of Net Zero Lunacy Secretary Ed Miliband blamed the higher costs on global wholesale gas markets.
But this was exposed as a BIG FAT LIE. As Ofgem confirmed, the hike was largely due to government policies, including the crazy Net Zero payments to wind farms to NOT produce any wind power. I kid you not.
Labour promised to cut our energy bills by £300 a year but they are now going to be £187 higher than when the party came to power last year.
As some of us have been saying for years, all those Net Zero claims about saving the planet and cutting our bills are nothing but hot air.
ALMOST one in five children at school in England now requires support for their special educational needs or disability.
Indeed, the explosion in diagnoses of mental health conditions such as ADHD has led to services being stretched to breaking point, at a cost of £16billion a year.
This is clearly unsustainable.
Of course we need to offer help to children with genuine conditions but does anyone really believe that six kids in every classroom of 30 are affected?
Either there’s something in the water or we are too quick to slap a medical label on perfectly normal variations in learning and behaviour.
Like many teachers dealing with children in the classroom every day, I suspect that better parenting – healthy food, routine and discipline, plenty of exercise and sleep – is all that many of these kids really need, not a label for life.