Immigration

One thing I've noticed about immigrants is that they are overwhelmingly pro immigration. Whatever part of the world they come from, and whatever country they go to, they take offence at any hint that immigration might not be the best thing since sliced bread. In my view it has been a disaster, particularly for England, which has absorbed a disproportionately large number of immigrants to both the UK and the EU.

But why expect that immigrants have to be pro immigration? You may consider the contrary point of view hypocritical - how can an immigrant be anti immigration?

But what if an overwhelming majority of the native English - ie the people who gave the immigrant a refuge from persecution, the opportunity of getting a job, healed his sick, educated his kids - want immigration cut drastically or stopped altogether? How does an immigrant then justify a pro immigration point of view?

Surely such a point of view has to be taken as being hostile to the interests of the English people. Surely the only decent response is that they respect the opinion of the English on the matter.

Immigrants or their descendants who then get into politics and start pushing a ridiculous open doors policy on immigration, knowing the general feeling about immigration are in my view contemptible ingrates and traitors who should have their citizenship revoked and be booted out of the country.

Generation of Burkes

You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage

You might remember that quote from 'Aliens'. The sci-fi horror film starring Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley, with Paul Reiser in the role of Carter Burke, the archetypal yuppie slime ball of the 22nd Century (or whenever). At that point in the film Ripley has Burke pegged as a scum bag of the lowest order. He's prepared to sacrifice the whole crew of the ship (and jeopardise the safety of the human race) in order to smuggle an 'alien' back to Earth in the bodies of the crew for the weapons industry.

Examine the Labour cabinet and it's not too difficult to imagine that the character of Burke reached a sympathetic audience in people like Brown, Mandelson, Harman, Straw and the Millibands. All are shallow, incompetent, self serving scum who put their own interests ahead of the national interest. All are happy to see the UK trashed by immigration from the third world in order to secure future votes. All are happy to sell the UK out to their undemocratic antipatriot collaborators in the EU. All are happy to see the UK bankrupted, and all are prepared to lie through their teeth in order that the destruction that they wreak on the UK should continue uninterrupted.

Gemma Atkinson - 100 % English

Some may call the pose sexist and demeaning to women, but they may go and cheerfully boil their heads :) I think what I like most about it is the look in her eyes, not the fact that she's washing dishes.

Sir Michael Lyons warns BBC would be left a 'pale and weak shadow'

Daily Telegraph:

Sir Michael Lyons, the chairman of the BBC Trust, has warned the BBC would be left a "pale and weak shadow" of its current self if the licence fee is amended or abolished.

Superb! Let's do that then! I'd especially like to see one of these 'pale shadows' that he's talking about.

Full article here

English Votes for Cameron? II

Confirmation of my concerns expressed on an earlier post.

From The Times, May 10th

David Cameron yesterday set out his plans to draw the sting from Scottish discontent if the next Conservative Government is forced to make big cuts in public spending to reduce the £700 billion of debt it would inherit from Labour.

Cameron will protect the scotch from the harshest cuts to public spending which he will be forced to make because of the financial incompetence of the clown Brown.

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The Grasping Scummers

In my opinion abuses of power in the seat of Government should be stamped on extremely hard, as corruption at the heart of the nation's Government has far greater implications than elsewhere. These are people who have the future of the country in their grasp, they must show that they deserve to have our trust. Their morals should be beyond reproach.

The current lot in Parliament clearly do not deserve that trust. They have created - deliberately or not - a lax system which is open to abuse and exploitation. A system which they then turned around and blamed when public attention was drawn its abuse. But they created it.

MPs are exceptional (ie different from the ordinary working public) in that they work in two different places: their constituencies and the Houses of Parliament. These places may be hundreds of miles apart. So it seems that they have a legitimate need for two homes.

The manner in which MPs have chosen to deal with this exceptionality really demonstrates that they are not fit to set rules for themselves for these exceptional cases. So they should either they follow the same rules as everyone else with no exceptions, or exceptional rules which only apply to MPs need to be set by an independent body.

All cases of expenses abuse should be investigated with a view to prosecution for fraud and for those cases where a guilty verdict is reached, MPs should face jail or at the very least loss of their seat in Parliament and permanent ban from running for a parliamentary seat.

DNA

The Government says it has to allow thousands of foreign criminals into the country because under EU law it can't refuse them. It then says that it can't deport terrorist suspects because it's against European Human Rights legislation. Yet the Government is prepared to disregard European Human Rights law on the issue of holding the DNA of innocent people. Seems like they'll either ignore EU law when it's inconvenient, or use it to legitimise their destruction of our civil liberties.

The True Cost of Housing

Am I the only one in the country who thinks the cost of housing is still insanely high? If the average wage in England is around £25,000[1], and a house should be no more than 3 times annual salary as was recommended by bankers and mortgage advisers in more sensible times, then the average house price should be around £75,000. Or alternately, if wages had kept pace with property increases, the average UK wage would be around £70,000!

After a year or so of falling prices, the average UK house price is still over £205,000! [2]. A massive £130,000 over what it should be. But it's not just £130,000 more.

I'm going to do a mortgage calculation for a couple of different scenarios using the mortgage calculator at mortgagecalculator.net.

First with Mr Lucky earning £25,000, and the house of his dreams costing a mere £75,000, let's go for a 25 year mortgage and assume that the interest rate is going to stay at 5%. He can afford a £10,000 deposit.

Total Amount Paid = £113,995
Total Interest Paid = £48,995
Monthly Payments £379

Scenario 2, with Mr Average earning £25,000, and the house of his dreams costing the average value of £205,000, keeping everything else the same, including a deposit of £10,000.

Total Amount Paid = £341,985
Total Interest Paid = £146,985
Monthly Payments £1,140

Right away, you can see that an extra £100,000 is paid just in interest. The difference in the cost of the houses is £130,000, but the difference between the Total Amount Paid in scenario 1 and the Total Amount Paid in scenario 2 is £227,000. How many years would it take Mr Average to not just earn that extra £227,000, but save it on top of his day to day expenses? He only has 25 years of course, which draws you to the difference in Monthly Payments, almost £800 per month for the lifetime of the mortgage. What else might Mr Average want to spend that money on?

Money spent on property is dead money, the only people that benefit are bankers, solicitors and real estate agents, but most people only buy one house (at a time) so only a few of those benefit – and who cares about solicitors, bankers and real estate agents anyway? Money spent on property is money that can't be spent on goods and services, holidays, having more kids, putting your kids through private education, buying a boat, putting more away for your pension, private health service ...

There's no real way to benefit from the ridiculous property prices, unless you're planning to flee the country permanently and use the money to keep yourself for the rest of your life in a country where property is cheap.

How can prices be made to fall? By decreasing demand - by taxing second home owners and buy to letters and forcing BTLs to provide a minimum standard of accommodation would be a start.

If the prices are to drop to what I'd call sensible levels, then some people will hurt, obviously, ie the people who have bought since the housing price bubble started. Those that bought near the top of the bubble will hurt most. However if prices don't fall, everybody who buys a house from now until eternity pays. Your kids, their kids, their grandkids and so on. All subsequent generations will face this millstone around their necks.

[1]statistics.gov.uk
[2]BBC News

Liberal Democrat Candidate Turns Tory

From the Daily Telegraph:

Liberal Democrat candidate defects to Tories

A Liberal Democrat election candidate Norsheen Bhatti [Nora Batty? - HN] has defected to the Conservatives, blaming Nick Clegg for abandoning his party's commitment to widen representation of ethnic minorities.

Ms Bhatti, the prospective candidate in Chelsea and Fulham, said she had decided to join David Cameron because he was doing more to get black and Asian people elected to Parliament.

Full story at Daily Telegraph
She has until very recently been critical of the Conservative Party, and if this Tory promise to put more BMEs in the Houses of Parliament is sufficient to make her switch alliegences, exactly how strong are her principles? From my point of view, not very. From my point of view, she switched parties because she's non-white and the Tories have pledged to help non-whites get seats in Parliament. It's a fairly shallow, unprincipled, self serving grab for power.

Haven't we already got enough politicians like that?

In the article she's quoted as saying that the Liberal Party 'is so very out of touch with everyday life and people in our country.' If anyone is out of touch with people in our country, it's Cameron. I think the people in our country are sick of having 'affirmative action' and 'equal opportunities' shoved down our throat. Affirmative action guarantees no improvements in performance whatsoever. Look at the women in Brown's cabinet. What a useless, brainless bunch of .. incompetents!

Cameron is still trying to out-Blair the Labour party, I've got news for you Cameron, the country has moved on .. for gods sake even the Labour Party has moved on.

Policing London Protests

No pun intended, but I was struck quite hard by the different approach the police have taken in dealing with protests this year. In the last couple of weeks there were the protests at the G20 meeting, where one man died, possibly as a result of a violent shove from a policeman, and others allegedly suffered violent attacks by the police. In the New Year there was a protest by muslim and leftist malcontents at the Israeli Embassy, which was basically under siege for days on end.

Many will have seen the video of the police effectively running away from an abusive mob of these muslim and leftist malcontents on one of the associated marches. What I would like to know is where is the consistency in policing?

It needs to be remembered that the Israeli Embassy protests were protests against the actions of a foreign government, and the G20 protests were at least in part protesting against the actions of our government.

I acknowledge that Mr Tomlinson, the man who died at the protests was apparently not actually protesting, and did not in any way deserve to be treated as he was.

TV License Hell

A disturbing but not altogether surprising article from a fellow blogspotter

I've just watched my husband driven away in a police car. Not because he is a murderer, or a rapist or even a theif but because the T.V Licensing people decided to take him to court without informing him of that fact and getting him fined. Then, without telling him that he had been fined, they had a warrant issued for his arrest for non-payment of fines.

So according to this blogger, her husband was arrested and dragged to a court by the police because of non payment of a fine he had no prior knowledge of. Detail is scarce but I can't see how he could have had time to prepare a defence or organise legal representation. This is truly abhorrent behaviour. This is how the BBC is funded. The BBC, which has to rank among the most sickeningly traitorous and vile organisations in existence. No concerns about public opinion for them, no fear of a consumer boycott. They will produce their lies and propoganda, and even if you don't watch the bilge which pours from the BBC channels, you will still pay for it to be produced, or risk this kind of treatment.

News of upcoming TV License protests from yet another fellow blogspotter tv-licensing in May. Protests have been scheduled for London, Bristol, Birmingham and Manchester with the possibility of more venues to be added later.

Don't Just Blame El Gordo

The blame for the current recession seems to have landed squarely on the shoulders of one Gordon Brown, with perhaps a small amount being apportioned to Mr Darling, with a certain A. Blair escaping pretty much unscathed. However in my opinion the overwhelming majority of labour MPs have been soulless yes men, more concerned about their careers as politicians than the future of the UK. They must have been able to see the folly of the government's economic policy long ago but kept silent. The Government's failure is a testament to their cowardice. Their pitiful sheeplike performance during labour's years in government will be duly rewarded with political oblivion, hopefully permanent. Their careers, which they sought to protect by never protesting against the government, will be over.

Below is a roll call of the current Cabinet members. The percentage of the member's votes which went against the Government's position is shown, aswell as the number of times the y rebelled and the total number of votes in which they participated. Their spinelessness should haunt them through the rest of their working lives.

Cabinet loyalty for current parliment
Total votes for this parliament 996 (as of 30 March 2009)

Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service
The Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP
0.7% (1 of 146 votes)

Chancellor of the Exchequer
The Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP
0.9% (4 of 464 votes)

Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
The Rt Hon David Miliband MP
0.6% (3 of 501 votes)

Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor
The Rt Hon Jack Straw MP
1.3% (8 of 626 votes)

Secretary of State for the Home Department
The Rt Hon Jacqui Smith MP
0.6% (5 of 775 votes)

Secretary of State for Defence
The Rt Hon John Hutton MP
1.0% (7 of 672 votes)

Secretary of State for Health
The Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP
1.0% (7 of 682 votes)

Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP
0.4% (3 of 670 votes)

Secretary of State for International Development
The Rt Hon Douglas Alexander MP
0.5% (3 of 582 votes)

Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
The Rt Hon Peter Mandelson
No information

Leader of the House of Commons (and Lord Privy Seal); Minister for Women; and Labour Party Chair
The Rt Hon Harriet Harman QC MP
0.7% (5 of 775 votes)

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The Rt Hon James Purnell MP
0.7 % (6 of 823 votes)

Secretary of State for Transport
The Rt Hon Geoff Hoon MP
0.5% (4 of 759 votes)

Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
The Rt Hon Hazel Blears MP
0.4% (3 of 749 votes)

Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families
The Rt Hon Ed Balls MP
0.9% (7 of 819 votes)

Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
The Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP
0.4% (3 of 844 votes)

Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP
1.3% (10 of 788 votes)

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
The Rt Hon Shaun Woodward MP
0.5% (3 of 552 votes)

Leader of the House of Lords (and Lord President of the Council)
The Rt Hon Baroness Royall of Blaisdon
No information

Chief Secretary to the Treasury
The Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP
1.2% (9 of 737 votes)

Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills
The Rt Hon John Denham MP
1.0% (7 of 715 votes)

Secretary of State for Wales
The Rt Hon Paul Murphy MP
2.2% (17 of 781 votes)

Secretary of State for Scotland
The Rt Hon Jim Murphy MP
1.5% (11 of 728 votes)

From The Public Whip website
http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mps.php


Not all Labour MPs have been so spineless though, the name Frank Field springs to mind as an example of a Labour politician with a conscience, someone who is proud of being British and is sceptical of the benefits of the EU and immigration. He is one of the few who deserves to survive the upcoming election with his seat in parliament intact.

Just Deserts

Two or three weeks ago at the end of February we were rocked by the scandal of the release of four terrorist suspects by Justice Mitting of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission.

That's right, Justice Mitting, who decided that failed asylum seekers should have free access to the NHS[1]. He has a habit of making similar kind of decisions, which are usually accompanied by members of the government making noises of intense exasperation.

They were freed according to the Daily Telegraph 'because Government failed to prove they were at risk of disappearing'. Jacqui Smith apparently failing to do her homework[2].

Poor old Jacqui Smith's bewildered face was all over our tv screens and the front pages of our newspapers, there she is again trying her hardest to rid this country of terrorist scumbags and being thwarted at every turn by uncooperative ultra liberal judges.

A couple of days later and the terrorist 'suspects' are behind bars again anyway as Ms Smith decides to overrule the judge's decision and imprison them. Not exactly ideal for the British taxpayer, we're still paying for these animals who hate us and plot against us. But we can't send them back to their original countries, because the SIAC judges decided that we can't trust the countries concerned not to harm them, and we wouldn't want that now would we?

The thing is, how did Justice Mitting get into the SIAC in the first place? He was appointed by Lord Falconer in 2007[3].

How did Lord Falconer get to the House of Lords I hear you ask?

He was put there by Tony Blair, his lifelong pal[4].

So, if Justice Mitting is not performing to our wonderful government's satisfaction, why doesn't Brown get his crony in the House of Lords to appoint another one in his place? Then the farcical events of the beginning of the month might be avoided.

I suggest that Justice Mitting is performing exactly as the government wishes. Keeping the likes of Qatada in the country and releasing them / imprisoning them allows the government to keep the associated terror thread in our minds, and makes us more sympathetic to their 'anti terror' legislation. Which as we have already seen will probably be used for anything other than anti terror means.

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-558665/More-11-000-failed-asylum-seekers-win-right-free-NHS-care.html

[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4863867/Jacqui-Smith-attacks-decision-to-free-four-terror-suspects.html

[3] http://www.whitehallpages.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=14937

[4] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2984844.stm

English Votes for Cameron ?

A Conservative victory in next year's general election is bound to cause a headlong dash for complete independence in Scotland. Labour is dead nationwide, and over the border only the SNP and Lib Dems will get their votes. Votes for the Lib Dems might as well be votes for the hated Tories, and will enable five more painful years of Tory rule over the overwhelmingly socialist Scots. Votes for the SNP and the ensuing flight for independence will at least enable the Scots to escape the coming pain of Tory/Westminster rule.

Cameron has stated that it is his desire to govern over the whole of the UK, rather than just England. The only way he can achieve this aim will be to further betray English interests – his core vote remember - and throw more English money over the border to placate the Scots. He has already indicated that the current inequities in the Scottish and English health systems and other areas are of no great concern to him. So I can safely assume that he has no intention of fixing them. If this is the case, then why should any self respecting Englishman vote for the current Conservative leader? He won't get to be Prime Minister of the UK without English votes, it's a simple fact, and in my opinion he doesn't deserve to get them.

An English Future
I often hear or read of English people saying that they don't recognise their country anymore, either due to immigration or the insidious creep of EU legislation, or both. They might say if they had the chance they'd leave. Younger people say that they are in the process of leaving. Plenty have left already, to countries like Canada, New Zealand, Australia, America etc.
The problem is, all of these countries have their own issues. None have a future which is secure and certain. America may fragment on racial lines. Obama is certain to open up the US borders to immigrants from Mexico and Africa and may well shun future immigrants from Europe. Australia has recently voted in their own version of New Labour, so god help them! Kevin Rudd is a committed multiculturalist and his immigration policy will reflect this. New Zealand's indigenous Maori population are not happy about the accelerating influx of migrants.
My point is, there is nowhere to run to which doesn't have the same problems which currently affect England. Things might be quiet now, but the future is not so rosy. Also, how much effort is involved in the upheaval of uprooting yourself and possibly your family to start afresh somewhere else? If those who want to escape to another country channelled that effort into making England the kind of country they do want to live in, how much more could we achieve?
English culture and identity deserve to survive distinct, as does any