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Tuesday, March 30, 2004  David
Irving comments: NONE SO blind as those
that won't see. Thanks to Mr Sanctimonious
Blair (and to a degree the
Conservative Party too) Britain has become
the dumping ground of Europe, its
government the eager recipient of the
criminal detritus and unemployable scum of
every Third World, eastern European, and
other country.
This has nothing
to do with asylum or human rights: it is
the same kind of Big Business greed and
municipal penny-pinching that sucked
millions of Blacks out of the Caribbean
into England in the mid-1950s, the
beginning of the country's great
immigration (Tony Blair: "migration")
tragedy.
The fact that these
Blacks were paid -- far below minimum wage
-- for their work alters nothing of the
basic outlines of the human and national
tragedy: it was a twentieth century slave
trade, with the same community broadly
responsible for the suffering as had
inflicted the slave tragedy on the United
States in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and
nineteenth centuries.
What will this new tide
bring to the English, other than fresh
misery, costs, crowding, and dilution of
social achievements? The English radio
waves will be crowded with a new gabble of
ethnic minority radio stations. England's
ancient culture will be further
submerged.
Ten, fifteen, twenty
years down the road there will be loud
obligatory cheers throughout the docile
and purblind English media as the first
Gypsy is proclaimed commander of London's
Metropolitan Police, appointed, as likely
as not, not on the merits of his career
but on the twisted political path he has
followed to that point, a miserable
testimonial to the policy of total,
suicidal, political correctness.
Romany will become a
mandatory second language taught in
England's ancient grammar schools, where
once Greek and Latin flourished.
Blunkett, Hughes, Blair,
and the other criminals of this new
tragedy will long have passed on.
And the English? If the
world is lucky, they will have voted with
their feet by then -- moving out, first to
the suburbs, then to the distant
provinces, and perhaps finally, as this
horrible stain, the spread of drugs, the
armed violence, the muggings, and the
constant fear, inexorably spreads out
behind them, out of Britain to other
countries, where a greater sanity and hope
for the future of their children
prevails. I REMEMBER the anguish
I felt, when I saw my first beggar,
squatting on the street steps of a Madrid
Metro, suckling her child in
1959.
Until ten or fifteen years
ago, there were virtually no beggars in
London. Now ask any tourist: every tunnel,
every underpass, every skyscraper's
ventilation grating has its pathetic heap,
sleeping in midday on its patch of soggy
cardboard, its possessions piled up in
plastic shopping bags at its head. Not a
few of them are the English, turned out of
their homes, or unable to find
mental-hospital accommodation.
This is the real human
tragedy which deserves Mr Blair's
attention, for a fraction of the money he
has wasted, and is wasting, in fighting Mr
Bush's criminal wars for him.
Others are less deserving of our sympathy.
A few years ago, I was sitting outside a
restaurant in London's Mayfair, with
little Jessica on my lap.
A Gypsy, one of
thousands of Blair's Beggars who have
slipped into southern England, walked
purposefully past, clutching the ragged
bundle which was her child in one arm, and
stretching out another for alms.
As she knew no English,
I used one word, Police, which is I
believe much the same in any language. She
quickened her step and moved on. But then
she returned. She knew some English after
all. "I come back in two days, and steal
your child," she said.
"What did she say,
Daddy?" asked Jessica, round-eyed.
"Nothing," I answered,
lest anything I answered might create a
wrongful stereotype. |
Whistleblower
suspended in immigrant row: Minister faces calls to
quit over 'lax' entry checks from new
Europe By Greg Hurst,
Political Correspondent and Richard
Ford,
Home Correspondent BEVERLEY HUGHES, the Immigration
Minister, was embroiled in a fresh row last night
after an official at a British embassy was
suspended for tipping off the Conservatives over
lax controls. The envoy alleged that Romanian and
Bulgarian migrants were being allowed into the
country despite possessing forged and fraudulent
documentation, and officials in Britain being
warned about the scam. The Home Office has been forced on to the
defensive over the easing of checks on migrants,
after a series of leaks from the Immigration and
Nationality Directorate. Michael Howard, the Conservative Party
leader, increased the pressure yesterday by calling
on Ms Hughes to resign despite the minister
receiving the full backing of David
Blunkett, the Home Secretary, and the Prime
Minister's office. As the row erupted, a defiant Ms Hughes told
Channel 4 News last night: "I am not considering my
position." In the latest incident David Davis, the
Shadow Home Secretary, said that a member of staff
at the British Embassy in Bucharest was suspended
last week after sending him an e-mail alerting him
to an immigration racket. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said: "A
member of staff in the British Embassy is facing
disciplinary procedures." The suspended embassy official is James
Cameron, 54, the British Consul in Bucharest. A
former career soldier from Glasgow, he joined the
Foreign Office in 1990. He has served as an
official before, in Romania in 1991. He returned to
Bucharest three years ago to head one of the
busiest sections of the Embassy, responsible for
issuing visas to Romanian and Moldovan citizens and
looking after the interests of the British citizens
in Romania. In the e-mail the official said that the row
over the easing of immigration checks on new EU
accession states was just "the tip of the iceberg".
He wrote: "Both countries were until March 1
overwhelmed with badly prepared and bogus
applications. When entry clearance officers
write to Sheffield and state clearly that the
application is being supported with forged and
counterfeit documents the letters are ignored
and the applications are still being issued." He alleged that rules were relaxed so that
immigration applications bypassed local embassies
and were sent to officials in Britain unable to
speak Bulgarian or Romanian after
lawyers charging
clients up to £3,000 brought in suitcases full
of applications. The e-mail said that many applicants were
long-term unemployed.
It said that lawyers were advising Romanian and
Bulgarian migrants that their applications would
succeed. "Unfortunately, this tends to be the
case," the e-mail said. It also disclosed that the
National Criminal Intelligence Service was
investigating one lawyer who had helped with more
than 500 applications, which cost each client
between £1,000 and £2,000. British officials said
that the consular official in question was
investigated after his role in the government
immigration scandal "came to light because of
independent information". It appears that the
e-mail sent to Mr Davis was traced back to its
author. Mr Davis released a copy of the e-mail, sent on
March 8, and signed: "A concerned citizen." He said
it was sent from the official's home address. The Home Office said last night that the policy
of relaxing immigration checks at Sheffield had
been revoked after a whistleblower disclosed
details of the operation. Mr Davis, who raised the matter in the Commons
as a point of order, asked if the disciplinary
action taken against the consul amounted to a
breach of parliamentary privilege. He asked: "How can Members of Parliament protest
about a civil servant who has been penalised as
a result of sending to a Member an e-mail
alerting them to potential inaccuracies in a
ministerial statement? "Last week (a) British
consul in Bucharest, a career civil servant, was
suspended for sending me such an e-mail from his
home address. Is it not the case that
disciplining civil servants for talking to
Members of the House of Commons is a breach of
parliamentary privilege?" He was advised by Sylvia Heal, the Deputy
Speaker, to write to the Speaker, Michael
Martin, setting out his complaint. The
Conservative Party then published a statement that
quoted extensively from the e-mail which was sent
to Mr Davis. The e-mail said that since March 1 there had
been a change in procedure and applicants or their
lawyers could now send their paperwork directly to
the immigration office in Sheffield without going
through the local embassy. Mr Davis will make further allegations today
using information from the same source, during an
Opposition debate in the Commons on immigration,
The Times has learnt. The Conservatives had intended to focus on the
European constitution in the debate - one of 20 in
the parliamentary year whose subject they are
allowed to decide - but this will now follow the
immigration debate. Copyright 2004 Times
Newspapers Ltd. |
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