Legislation

British Nationality Act 1948
Ireland Act 1949
Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962
Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968
Immigration Act 1971
British Nationality Act 1981
British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1990
Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002
Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006
UK Borders Act 2007
Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009

With all this legislation how has mass immigration happened against the will of the majority?

Someone somewhere needs to be shot (I am talking about state sanctioned judicial execution, not freelance activity).

Zoe Williams article about immigration

Note the flawed logic in this Zoe Williams article about immigration for the Guardian:  http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/30/britain-migrate-net-migration-david-cameron

"The immigrant of David Cameron’s imagination, who roams the continent looking for the taxpayers who will most generously fund his idleness, doesn’t exist" says Ms Williams.

Therefore it follows that we can abolish entirely any right to any benefits by immigrants.

And not just for a piffling four years, but for all time.

It will have no consequence.

As Zoe Williams tells us, the immigrants are not looking for benefits.

Therefore abolishing any right to benefits is entirely benign.

Problem solved.

Extremely provocative article on immigration and how it is intended by the left to destroy the United Kingdom:  http://www.theprisma.co.uk/2014/11/30/trenton-oldfield-i-dont-think-europe-has-a-right-to-have-frontiers/

This is what all lefty internationalists think.

Trenton Oldfield is at least telling it like it is.

Last week the Yes movement entered its imperial phase

This is a view from Scotland you do not often see:  https://faintdamnation.wordpress.com/2014/11/29/jacobites-and-jacobins-the-problem-with-yes-fundamentalism/

"...last week the Yes movement entered its imperial phase..."

Owen Jones got a good kicking on Dateline London

Guardian journalist Owen Jones got a good kicking on Dateline London earlier today http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04tr6c9/dateline-london-29112014

When he tried to blame Margaret Thatcher for reinforcing the class divide in British society both John Fisher Burns and Bernard Burrell (neither of whom can be called right wing) shouted him down.

They were right to do so.

When in power Margaret Thatcher was opposed by public school wets (Ian Gilmour, Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler, Jim Prior, Michael Heseltine, Francis Pym, Lord Carrington etc).

She was derided as "the grocer's daughter".

In response she promoted Jewish MPs into her Cabinet - at one time she was criticised as having more right-wing Jews in her government than Likud did.

This may be an apocryphal story, but when asked why she promoted so many Jewish people she said she could be sure of their loyalty - they were outsiders like herself, and no other clique in the Tory party would have them.

Richard Garner in the Independent on poverty

This article by Richard Garner in the Independent on poverty is a cause for concern:  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/more-than-half-of-children-born-in-the-year-2000-have-faced-poverty-9888430.html

So much for lefty internationalism!

James Bloodworth says "our welfare state is primarily for those who’ve paid into it – it isn’t a global pot".

So much for lefty internationalism!

And "too often multiculturalism has been used as an excuse for the creation of monocultural ghettos based on a lack of integration".

When Labourites start attacking multiculturalism we know we are making progress.

"The rental market is overheating in many areas because not enough houses are being built. Immigration is exacerbating the problem" - well that is a welcome admission of reality.

And this is astonishing:  "Britain no longer feels like Britain when they can’t have a conversation with their neighbours and when they travel on a bus or a train and everybody is speaking in a foreign language".

This is a big step forward.

http://leftfootforward.org/2014/11/three-good-things-and-three-bad-things-in-camerons-immigration-speech/ 

"We do feel the Prime Minister needs to go further"

On Daily Politics this lunchtime Shadow Home Secretary Rachel Reeves was interviewed on the subject of immigration and told us:  "We do feel the Prime Minister needs to go further".

Immigration on Newsnight just now

Davd Goodhart very sensible when talking about immigration on Newsnight just now.

Jonathan Portes is mistaken in thinking that immigration is good for the economy.  He omits to consider the depressing influence immigration has on public morale.  If the majority is worried and fearful and experiences feelings of hopelessness and lack of control the "feel good factor" will be depressed and the economy will perform less well than it might.

What is the Obama definition of "native"?

Obama:  "If you look at the history of immigration in this country, each successive wave there have been periods where the folks who were already here have said, 'Well I don't want those folks,'" he said. "Even though the only people who have the right to say that are some Native Americans."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/obama-the-only-people-with-the-right-to-object-to-immigration-are-native-americans-9887501.html

What is the Obama definition of "native"?

Presumably pre-1492.

Therefore according to the Obama assessment the people in the United Kingdom descended from the pre-1492 population (in other words most of us) have a right to say we don't want immigrants.

99.9% white English.

All those lefties who claim "the NHS would collapse without immigrants" need to explain how the NHS functioned in the years following 1948 when the personnel was 99.9% white English.

You are not allowed to say Enoch Powell was right about these people

"A total of 13 men, all of Somali origin, have been found guilty of the systematic sexual abuse of vulnerable schoolgirls and teenagers in Bristol."

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/27/guilty-prostitution-bristol-rape-girls-sex-abuse-somali?CMP=twt_gu

But of course you are not allowed to say Enoch Powell was right about these people.
 

Why should the media help Jon Trickett MP stick his snout even further into the swill trough

Jon Trickett's reasoning is faulty here:  http://labourlist.org/2014/11/do-the-media-fear-their-grip-on-mass-communications-is-failing/

The media must not be bounced by vested interests.

If for instance Tesco were to offer their customers extra Clubcard points if they Tweet the hashtag #TescosFinestPaella and it "trended" for five days does Jon Trickett think the media should report it?

So why is #CameronMustGo any different?

It is being tweeted by people who hope to gain (not least financially in the case of Mr Trickett) by the Conservatives losing the next election.

Therefore why should the media help Jon Trickett MP stick his snout even further into the swill trough?

What do they need Holyrood for?

The logical symmetry to English Votes For English Laws is that the Scottish MPs at Westminster should vote on Scottish Only laws.

So what do they need Holyrood for?

If a future non-SNP administration in Scotland were to promise a windfall payment to all Scottish voters by reducing unnecessary layers of government how long would Holyrood last?

We know that the votes of Scottish people can be influenced by monetary considerations as low as £500.

What happens if Scotland goes bankrupt?

Apropos the Smith Commission Report, what happens if Scotland goes bankrupt?

This is not so improbable - Liverpool effectively went bankrupt in the 1980s.

All the people likely to hold positions of power in the Scottish Executive are committed to big public spending.

Going bust can only be a matter of time.

https://www.smith-commission.scot/

A direct service Boston to London

If the government is serious about helping east coast towns can they please require Stagecoach and Virgin to run a direct service Boston to London with at least two trains a day in each direction.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30222458

An anti-social act

Extremely interesting and radical attack on divorce in the Spectator:  http://www.spectator.co.uk/columnists/rod-liddle/9382812/easy-divorce-has-been-catastrophic-for-british-children-and-i-say-this-as-a-divorcee/

Divorce is fundamentally a selfish act.

An anti-social act.

Why on earth are we letting so many South Africans in?

The immigration figures are ridiculously high:  http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/27/immigration-eu-figures-uk-impossible-target-teresa-may

 



Jonathan Portes has produced these useful charts.

Why on earth are we letting so many South Africans in?

Can we have a drive please to reduce the number of South Africans in the country, including telling Matthew Paris and Peter Hain to piss off.

And please don't tell me they have a "right" to be here - take the fucking rights away.

Glorious front cover to The Sun

Glorious front cover to The Sun today - David Mellor's words thrown back in his own face.

David Mellor is a sort of male Emily Thornberry - just as fat, just as arrogant, just as smug.

And please don't tell me he's a Tory.  He's no more a Tory than Heseltine or Major or any of that group of self-serving second-rate turncoats who brought down Margaret.  Treachery with a smile on its face.

Back to basics indeed!

Yes of course we know who you are Mr Mellor.  You are the hypocrite who paraded your family at the garden gate to try and convince us you were a wholesome father and husband and son-in-law.  Instead of a disgusting cheat and hypocrite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY6_9Qvj8I4

It is not really an attack on private education it is a paean to it

In today's Guardian the Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt throws the left some red meat by attacking private schools:  http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/24/private-schools-independent-sector-state-system

But look carefully!  It is not really an attack on private education it is a paean to it.  The state sector is to be subsumed by the private sector through "running", "sponsorship" and "assisting" (these are all code words for an attack on the bog standard comprehensives).

And what does he mean by "professional exchange"?

Is this code for lazy sub-standard unionised teachers needing to be colonised by hoity-toity la-di-da public school teachers who will show them how to teach properly?

And does this not confirm what we have always suspected - state school teachers are useless.