Given the continuing crisis in Europe, I must, once again,
return to the subject.
Belatedly, EU politicians are coming to the realisation that
the best way to tackle the issue of Syrian refugees, is to do so, at, or close
to source. So they are talking about
granting further aid to Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey. This will certainly help – indeed, this is
the policy that has been advocated by the British government – a policy for
which the liberal left and EU elite castigated Cameron’s government.
However, this solution only has the opportunity to address
the Syrian element. Many of the swarm of
people now invading Europe’s soft underbelly, come from places other than
Syria. They come from Iraq – even though
many areas of Iraq are under government rather than Daesh control. They come from Eritrea – presumably these are
in opposition to the government? They
come from Pakistan and Bangladesh, from Somalia and Ethiopia, Nigeria and Kenya
. These people are getting swept-up in the mass
and all are being labelled as ‘refugees’
Plainly that is wrong but the EU
solution does nothing to address this.
Nor does it do anything to address the mass of immigrants
that are seeking to illegally enter Europe, from Libya. So
hard luck Italy – Germany finally feels imperilled by the swarm coming in from
the south-east and so action must be taken.
France is feeling destabilised by these immigrants and so, to hell with
the Italians.
Donald Tusk, President of the European Council (being a
European position, quite naturally, unelected), laid out the new policy last
night, after long talks with EU member states.
These talks followed on from the issue of a ‘diktat’ from the European
Union that forces most of these ‘sovereign’ nations to accept a quota of
immigrants (a few countries, the UK among them, are not affected because they
have an opt-out). There has to be a strong question mark over
whether or not any of these nations can really continue to be called ‘sovereign’,
especially when they can be forced to accept policies that they very clearly
don’t want to.
Consider also, that Spain has been told it must accept
19,219 migrants. Portugal must take
4,775. That is the same Spain with
unemployment currently standing at more than 22% and youth unemployment at more
than 48%. The same Portugal with
unemployment at close to 12% and youth unemployment of more than 31%. So these already suffering and impoverished
countries must accept people who will naturally be an immediate and long term
welfare burden.
Tusk and the EU elite have come to the realisation that they
must undo the effects of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s at best naïve, and
certainly very stupid open invitation to ‘refugees’. Merkel’s invitation has been likened to those
teenagers that post a ‘party at my house, tonight’ notice on FaceBook or
Twitter and then wonder why hundreds or thousands of people turn-up.
Tusk advised people that it is time to ‘correct the policy of
open doors and windows’ He also warned that the greater part of the tide
(is that the Polish word for swarm?) was yet to come!
The EU will also need to strengthen its borders, according to
Tusk. Yes, that’s right, the EU needs to
do the very thing that Hungary has been so pilloried for. Hungary builds a fence – very bad. EU builds fences in border states, including
Hungary – that’s okay! A fiction writer
wouldn’t be believed if he or she wrote such stuff! I suppose though, that is the price that is
paid, when a nation surrenders its sovereignty.
Memo to SkyNews and BBCNews – Maybe do some background
checks on those Syrian professionals that you interview? Yes they can appear quite eloquent and
well-spoken but maybe ask yourself how,
in what Sky and the BBC insist is an oppressive regime, led by Assad, did they
manage to have such a very good, middle class lifestyle? Were they maybe, until very recently, staunch
supporters of the regime, who have ‘read the writing on the wall’ and are
getting out, with their wealth, before Assad falls? Wouldn’t that make them economic migrants
rather than refugees
One intriguing prospect of the EU’s crass mishandling of the
migrant invasion is that this is seriously strengthening the hand of the Brexit
campaign. What kind of country would Britain be, if Eurocrats
and ministers from other EU countries can simply dictate how many immigrants a
company must take? What kind of a
country would Britain be if its borders were to be protected, not by its own troops and border services but by an
EU Border Force (the creation of this supra-national body is the latest idea
out the EU Project) One has to wonder if this is by some kind of
design. Has Brussels and Berlin decided
that the British can never be ‘brought to heel’ (history should have been a
good guide here!) and so the only way that the Euro-Project can progress, is
without the UK. Have the Germans and EU
elite spoken to Obama’s US administration and reached an understanding to
isolate the UK? Will they be ‘bigging up’
Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP, so as to create division within the UK?
Watch this space!
See also Europe - A Refugee is for life.
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