The unnecessary Referendum tomorrow is driven by the success of UKIP which is driven by "legitimate concerns" ( a euphemism for varying degrees of resentment) about immigration.
It is like Mark Twain said of the weather: Everybody talks about it, but nobody does anything about it.
That being so, it is a wonder that only one Englishman (so far) has been driven off the rails.
(P.S. Mr. Mair and Mr. Cameron have Scottish names.)
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
Tuesday, 21 June 2016
Self-inflicted
David Cameron spoke of targets to cut net migration to the UK knowing they couldn't be attained while the UK remains in the EU. (Radio 4 News.)
In 2010 he stressed a "cap" was the answer. Now there is no mention of a cap.
Brexit won't solve the UK's immigration problems.
If Leave win on 23 June there is a 2-year period before it takes place.
Immigration will soar to beat anticipated restrictions.
Boris Johnson has repeated his 2010 view there should be an amnesty for illegals.
So Brexit leaders clearly don't have the will to reduce immigration numbers.
All this controversy and disruption! All for what?!
From the outside it must look to foreigners as though Britain is committing hara-kiri.
In 2010 he stressed a "cap" was the answer. Now there is no mention of a cap.
Brexit won't solve the UK's immigration problems.
If Leave win on 23 June there is a 2-year period before it takes place.
Immigration will soar to beat anticipated restrictions.
Boris Johnson has repeated his 2010 view there should be an amnesty for illegals.
So Brexit leaders clearly don't have the will to reduce immigration numbers.
All this controversy and disruption! All for what?!
From the outside it must look to foreigners as though Britain is committing hara-kiri.
Monday, 20 June 2016
Thought Control
In "1984" there is a Ministry of Equality that promotes inequality.
In 1984 I thought Britain was worse than Airstrip One (Orwell's name for Britain) because we now have two equality organisations. The Equal Opportunities Commission had successfully campaigned against the Conservatives' policy to stop foreign men using marriage to live in the UK. Even though the House of Lords determined (7 July 1983) that the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 did not apply to immigration control. The EOC was set up by Parliament to enforce work opportunities for women (the corollary being depriving men). Foreign husbands ae similarly entitled, by law, to deprive Britons of work and promotion. These men are here (partly) because of the EOC's illegal campaign. The largest group of taxpayers is British men. They fund the people in the "equality" industries!
In "1984" the only hope lay with the poor, the "proles", who cared about the future of Airstrip One. Central to the theme of "1984" is language. Newspeak enabled thought control. Jo Cox said: "women and men".
I am grateful to the many women who have expressed support for my epetition "Stop foreign men using marriage to live in the UK" at https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/129594
In 1984 I thought Britain was worse than Airstrip One (Orwell's name for Britain) because we now have two equality organisations. The Equal Opportunities Commission had successfully campaigned against the Conservatives' policy to stop foreign men using marriage to live in the UK. Even though the House of Lords determined (7 July 1983) that the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 did not apply to immigration control. The EOC was set up by Parliament to enforce work opportunities for women (the corollary being depriving men). Foreign husbands ae similarly entitled, by law, to deprive Britons of work and promotion. These men are here (partly) because of the EOC's illegal campaign. The largest group of taxpayers is British men. They fund the people in the "equality" industries!
In "1984" the only hope lay with the poor, the "proles", who cared about the future of Airstrip One. Central to the theme of "1984" is language. Newspeak enabled thought control. Jo Cox said: "women and men".
I am grateful to the many women who have expressed support for my epetition "Stop foreign men using marriage to live in the UK" at https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/129594
Sunday, 19 June 2016
Pearl Harbour again!
"We lived in India. Now Indians live here. It's just history repeating itself." BBC Radio 4 "Today", yesterday.
In the early 1860s, while American had civil war, Britons in Japan were being killed. Unrepentant samurai were forced by the Japanese Government to commit hara-kiri.
Today on Radio 4 "Sunday" the Archbishop of York said killing was too weak a word to describe the murder of Jo Cox MP. It was "a day of infamy in our country", though immigration is a legitimate concern. "Concern" is a weak word, when it is obvious that immigration to the UK has ruined some people's lives.
"A day of infamy" was how President Roosevelt described the attack on Pearl Harbour. History repeating itself, indeed!
The Archbishop of York came to Britain because of persecution by Uganda's Idi Amin. As everybody knows, Idi Amin has long gone, but the Archbishop is still here. Everybody also knows that every day for many years there has been abuse of the asylum system. To dismiss this as "concern" is to downplay its negative impact on some Britons and to gloss over the problem which ordinary citizens look in vain to politicians to protect them from.
In 1991 I was sitting on a bench in a crowded shopping mall in Japan when I heard an American (Canadian?) voice say: "The English and the Japanese are so alike it is weird."
No one is forced to commit hara-kiri but the suicide rate among young men in the UK is notoriously high.
In the early 1860s, while American had civil war, Britons in Japan were being killed. Unrepentant samurai were forced by the Japanese Government to commit hara-kiri.
Today on Radio 4 "Sunday" the Archbishop of York said killing was too weak a word to describe the murder of Jo Cox MP. It was "a day of infamy in our country", though immigration is a legitimate concern. "Concern" is a weak word, when it is obvious that immigration to the UK has ruined some people's lives.
"A day of infamy" was how President Roosevelt described the attack on Pearl Harbour. History repeating itself, indeed!
The Archbishop of York came to Britain because of persecution by Uganda's Idi Amin. As everybody knows, Idi Amin has long gone, but the Archbishop is still here. Everybody also knows that every day for many years there has been abuse of the asylum system. To dismiss this as "concern" is to downplay its negative impact on some Britons and to gloss over the problem which ordinary citizens look in vain to politicians to protect them from.
In 1991 I was sitting on a bench in a crowded shopping mall in Japan when I heard an American (Canadian?) voice say: "The English and the Japanese are so alike it is weird."
No one is forced to commit hara-kiri but the suicide rate among young men in the UK is notoriously high.
Saturday, 18 June 2016
Wherein Lies the Fault
The reaction to the murder of Jo Cox MP was: "Prejudice and hate must be defeated". A better reaction would be: "We shouldn't give cause for prejudice and hate in the first place". People who give cause know fine what they are doing - causing unhappiness - yet imagine they have the moral high ground.
Prejudice is pre-judging. The judge who heard my case about Hong Kong in 1991 was guilty of that. He dismissed my case without ever giving me the chance to express it.
He also lied, cheated and stole.
Please see "Sauce for the Gander" in 2013. My Comments at the end.
Prejudice is pre-judging. The judge who heard my case about Hong Kong in 1991 was guilty of that. He dismissed my case without ever giving me the chance to express it.
He also lied, cheated and stole.
Please see "Sauce for the Gander" in 2013. My Comments at the end.
Friday, 17 June 2016
Cause and Effect
Grievances breed resentment.
Assassinations (as happened yesterday) are not a good idea. (Signing https:petition.parliament.uk/petitions/129594 is a good idea.)
In 1914 a Serb nationalist caused great suffering to his fellow Serbs (not to mention elsewhere!).
Feminism and immigration are closely connected. (Please see http://marriageandmigration.blogspot.com "How we got here" 17 April 2016.)
Assassinations (as happened yesterday) are not a good idea. (Signing https:petition.parliament.uk/petitions/129594 is a good idea.)
In 1914 a Serb nationalist caused great suffering to his fellow Serbs (not to mention elsewhere!).
Feminism and immigration are closely connected. (Please see http://marriageandmigration.blogspot.com "How we got here" 17 April 2016.)
Thursday, 16 June 2016
Spanish Fly - in the Ointment
Mr. Cameron's Referendum on the UK remaining or leaving the European Union is a week from today.
Remain argue that the UK has control of its borders. If that is so, why aren't the many people who enter the UK illegally from the Continent send back?
Leave say they will get back control of our borders. But they don't say they will send back to France, Belgium, etc. those people who have crossed over from there illegally. Why not?
It can only be because both Remain and Leave politicians have no intention of ending this violation of our borders.
Months of controversy! Nothing solved!
As if not enough feathers have been ruffled already here and abroad, Mr. Cameron has angered the Spanish by flying off to Gibraltar today.
P.S. Please see http://marriageandmigration.blogspot.com "Inhuman Wrongs" in 2008, which tells of me and my Japanese girl friend having to return to France in 1979.
Remain argue that the UK has control of its borders. If that is so, why aren't the many people who enter the UK illegally from the Continent send back?
Leave say they will get back control of our borders. But they don't say they will send back to France, Belgium, etc. those people who have crossed over from there illegally. Why not?
It can only be because both Remain and Leave politicians have no intention of ending this violation of our borders.
Months of controversy! Nothing solved!
As if not enough feathers have been ruffled already here and abroad, Mr. Cameron has angered the Spanish by flying off to Gibraltar today.
P.S. Please see http://marriageandmigration.blogspot.com "Inhuman Wrongs" in 2008, which tells of me and my Japanese girl friend having to return to France in 1979.
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