Tens of thousands of people turned out on the streets last week to protest against mass immigration. The protestors were promptly labelled ‘racist’ by their own government, ‘far-right’ by the New York Times and as having links to ‘neo-Nazis’ by the Guardian. The protests in question happened in cities across Australia, including Sydney – but frankly those sentences could have been written about similar protests in Britain and in almost any western country.
Coincidentally, the past weekend also saw the ten-year anniversary of the German chancellor Angela Merkel opening the doors of Europe, saying ‘We can manage’ and allowing Europe to become the home of anyone in the world who wanted to move in.
These claims are echoed in every institution, from museums and cultural centres to the media
Merkel may have been more explicit than some of her counterparts, but similar open-door policies have afflicted almost every western country over recent years. In America the backlash to that protest has already begun, with the Donald Trump administration successfully starting not just to enforce its borders but to return people who are in the country illegally. But apart from the United States there isn’t a country in the West that has been serious about returning people who have come into the country illegally. Quite the opposite. In the UK the government has successfully challenged the courts over their rulings on hotels for illegal migrants. Questioned about this by the media, government ministers have admitted that the rights of illegal migrants trump those of British subjects who have paid taxes all of their lives. Indeed they have made it explicit that the rights of an illegal migrant who has never contributed to this country supersede the rights of people who are British and are down on their luck. The sort of people whom the welfare state was meant to support.
In recent weeks ministers have appeared in the British media and claimed that the majority of people arriving into the country on small boats are women and children: a flat-out lie, disproved not just by statistics but by the evidence of anyone’s eyes. Look at any photograph of the illegal dinghies arriving across the Channel and you will find no raft filled with women and children. Still, it seems that the war on reality can be fought not just up to the point of defeat but long past it.
So what is the way to answer this problem? Nigel Farage’s Reform party has finally moved to the position where it says that it will deport people who should not be in the UK. But I doubt whether this country can survive another four years of the kind of self-destruction that is now our daily news.
Claims that this country is monocultural and ‘irredeemably white’ are echoed in absolutely every institution, from the nation’s museums and cultural centres to most of our media and politicians. Our towns and cities are said to be racist. The nation’s subjects and citizens are said to be racist. And of course our countryside is racist. As a reaction to demographic change, absolutely everything must be urged to become more ‘inclusive’. This is not just some left-wing brain-fart, but the response to the reality of a country adding millions of foreigners in recent years, with a further ten million projected to arrive this decade.
The strain this puts on the welfare state is obvious, although it is denied by almost everybody in a position of power or influence. But walk into any British hospital or emergency ward and you can see for yourself how well our welfare state is coping with providing free services to the world.
Of course this makes people angry. But at this point there is a temptation on the political right to presume that these things will reach a crisis point, at which stage – however late in the day – the country will come to its senses and course-correct.
Yet even within the ranks of Reform it is hard to find anyone who has the kind of plan and personnel in place to correct any of this. When Trump tried to course-correct his own country’s lax immigration in his first term, he discovered that there was a whole bureaucracy in place which either couldn’t do what he wanted or actively worked against him. It took four years of exile and a resounding electoral success last year to even begin to undo the damage his predecessors’ open-borders policies created. On current trends, Trump and his successor will have to continue his deportation policies for the next six or seven years just to undo the illegal immigration Biden oversaw between 2020 and 2024. Are Reform, the Conservatives, Labour or any other political institution in Britain remotely capable of replaying that policy here?
I read the other day that the Labour government may soon be in a position to deport 100 illegals. The same day as that was announced, several times that number of people arrived on the south coast in dinghies.
Personally speaking, it is hard to know how to pass the time during a period of such national cultural suicide. But I am considering a trip to Pakistan, where I intend to write a report on the alarming monoculture and lack of diversity in the country’s cities and its rural areas. If there are no English pubs in the Pakistani countryside, I intend to kick up one hell of a stink. I am sure that any number of local or foreign universities will leap to publish my disturbing findings.
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