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This is what happens when foreign immigrants take over your town

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My warning to Britain: Why the left-wing mayor of German town wants you to see what happened when Romanian migrants moved in


  • Gangs of migrants congregate around the town's tower blocks in intimidating fashion
  • 400 Romanians and Bulgarians have moved into one tower block
  • Neighbourhood is now a hotspot for crime and anti-social behaviour
  • Duisburg council tell Britain to be on their guard as the migrants will move to take advantage of our benefits system

By Louise Eccles
PUBLISHED:23:21 GMT, 8 March 2013| UPDATED:00:19 GMT, 9 March 2013

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Softly-spoken pensioner Marlene Bothge seems an unlikely owner of a 200,000-volt stun gun, but after her neighbours stole the light bulbs from the corridor of the seven-storey tower block in which she used to live, she no longer felt safe without it.

‘I am sad it has come to this’, she says. ‘This is a weapon young people carry, not 65-year-old women. I should not feel threatened in my own home.’

As we talk outside the crumbling tower block, now surrounded by rubbish, discarded furniture and human excrement, Mrs Bothge fidgets nervously with her long grey plait. This was her home for 18 years until she and her husband moved out of their fifth-floor flat in November when the filth, noise and crime became unbearable.


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Feared: Gangs of Romanian migrants now congregate in areas of Duisburg which has forced many German inhabitants out

In the past 12 months, 400 Romanians and Bulgarians have moved into the block of 46 flats in Rheinhausen, a once-respectable suburb of the German city of Duisburg. Local officials claim they have migrated here en masse in anticipation of the social welfare they will be entitled to next year.


From January 2014, all 29 million citizens of Romania and Bulgaria will gain full rights to live, work and claim benefits here under EU ‘freedom of movement’ rules.
Many of the German city’s new residents are Roma gypsies who have travelled here together from the villages of Fântânele, in Romania, in search of a better life. Those villages are now deserted, while in Duisburg, flats designed for families of three or four have up to 15 people squeezed into them. For this, they pay £350-a-month — seemingly biding their time for the next ten months.

Unable to work or speak German, and with the schools already full, the Romanians and Bulgarians congregate in their dozens outside the tower block each day. The neighbourhood is now a hotspot for crime and anti-social behaviour.


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Bad attitude: This gypsy boy shows his disdain at being snapped, while right, Roma woman Maria Marin (in headscarf) would like to come to the UK next year

The block — known by its address, 3-5 In Den Peschen — had never been one of Duisburg’s more luxurious dwellings, but for years it was kept in good order by its houseproud German residents. Gradually they have nearly all moved out as the new arrivals have moved in. There are now only three German families left. Housewife Mrs Bothge quietly explains why.

‘They defecate and urinate in the corridors and the stairwells — the adults and the children,’ she says of the Bulgarians and Romanians. ‘The men play card games outside the flats and, if they need the toilet, they just pull their trousers down and do their business right there. They have working toilets so I cannot understand it.

‘The stairwell became so dirty that I didn’t want my children to visit anymore. There were rats everywhere and the noise was so bad at night. They stripped the corridors of everything. The paintings and plants I had bought to make it look nice, even my mop when I left it outside for 15 minutes.’

As she speaks, children run around the grounds beneath the tower block playing and screaming, while groups of men — one man carries a crowbar — sit on the walls drinking red wine from the bottle. The women shout to one another from their balconies, occasionally throwing bottles and packaging on to the ground below. The children are so used to being hit by debris that they shield their heads as they run beneath the balconies.

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Danger zone: Bottles and debris are thrown from the overcrowded balconies

A girl of seven or eight walks along a row of cars nearby and checks the door handle on each one. Perhaps it is a child’s innocent game. Perhaps not. The stench of human waste hangs in the air.

As we approach the block to take some photographs of Mrs Bothge, a group of young men runs over to us, shouting: ‘Go away grey-hair. It’s not good for you here. You go! Now!’ We quickly withdraw.

The mother-of-two is too nervous to have her picture taken that day. While still in the tower block, the Bothges lived in fear of being burgled or mugged. Mrs Bothge bought the stun gun and pepper spray for protection. Four months ago, when a neighbour tried to pick the lock on their flat door, the couple finally gave up and moved to another rented flat.

Nevertheless, Mrs Bothge says she does not blame the Romanian and Bulgarian people, but the European policy-makers. ‘They do not integrate into German society because they have no jobs, they do not speak the language and the children are not in school,’ she says.

‘We do not want them to go away, we know they are poor, but money needs to be spent to help them integrate. We feel let down by the EU. They should have realised this would happen when they opened the doors to such poor countries.’

With no means of earning money, police say some Romanians and Bulgarians are turning to crime — or using their children to commit crimes. Police officer Hanna Beuckmann says pick-pocketing and prostitution is now ‘a big problem’ locally, while the council admits some residents ‘have been mugged two or three times and are scared to go out’.

Last week Soeren Link, the city’s Left-wing mayor, made global headlines when he said the Romanians and Bulgarians were dumping piles of rubbish ‘taller than I am’ and sending their children on ‘stealing missions’.

He was ‘quite sure’ that most of the 6,700 Romanians and Bulgarians in Duisburg — population 488,000 — were aware of the social welfare they will be entitled to in the New Year. ‘I expect most of them will claim benefits’, he said.

Many are uneducated or unskilled, and will struggle to find work in a city where unemployment is at 16 per cent. Yet they arrive at a rate of 200 every month. The council estimates that from next year it will cost £15 million a year to house and feed them. The city is now appealing to the EU for financial help to cope with the influx.

Mr Link believes that Britain — known for its similarly generous welfare system — will also suffer the ‘consequences of opening the EU to these states’.

Retired architect Hans Halle, 65, and his wife Helga, 63, live in a six-bedroom house opposite the eyesore at 3-5 In Den Peschen. Last month, they learned that their £200,000 home had plummeted in value to £78,000 in a single year, following the arrival of the Romanians and Bulgarians.

The Halles had planned to downsize after their children moved out, but can no longer afford to do so. Grandmother Mrs Halle says: ‘A year ago this was a normal area but it is now a slum. We feel defeated and we feel angry at the EU.’ The Halles feel terrified in their own home and have been spat at, threatened and had their car vandalised.

‘The women here don’t go out at night. I even call my husband to escort me from the car to our front door. It’s not a life any more.’

The tower block is owned by Branco Baresic, the owner of Duisburg’s largest brothel, Sexxx Palace. Mr Baresic, an overweight man with a manicured beard and a black trench coat, arrives at the flats once a month to collect his rent in cash from the ‘head’ of the community.


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Eyesore: Piles of rubbish left by Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants in front of a tower block which houses up to 400 people

He told the Mail: ‘I rent it out and, after that, I don’t care who stays — their aunt, their uncle, their brother.’ He declined to take the Mail inside the building because, ‘I could not guarantee your safety’.
Officials estimate that half of the residents are children. Mr Baresic laughs when asked about this.

‘They have many babies because of the money they get for the children,’ he says. Although Romanians and Bulgarians are not yet eligible for full benefits, a loophole in the EU rules allows residents to claim £156 a month for every child they have if they register as self-employed.

Similarly, Bulgarians and Romanians who register in Britain as self-employed — and selling the Big Issue counts — are eligible for a National Insurance number and a wealth of hand-outs, including housing, council tax and child benefit.

The Department for Work and Pensions says the average claimant (across all nationalities) receives £390 a month in housing benefits and £65 a month in council tax benefits. They can also claim £88 a month for their first child and £58 a month for any child after that. It means someone with three children could collect £660 a month in benefits.

Already at least 500 Romanians and Bulgarians in Duisburg have registered as ‘self-employed’. Mrs Bothge believes these generous child benefits help explain why 14 pregnant women moved into the flat opposite her last spring. She says: ‘I called the police when I heard screaming and they told me the noise was a 13-year-old girl giving birth.’

‘In Romania, I got 10 euros a month for the children, here I get 200 euros,’ he says. ‘We feel comfortable here.’

Vasile, Romanian migrant

Roberto, 46, who lives in a three-bedroom flat, admits he claims benefits for all nine of his children — £1,400 a month — but insists he’d rather be working. The slim, weathered Romanian stands in his faded kitchen smoking, while his baby granddaughter clings to his legs.

He says: ‘I did not have enough money to feed my family in Romania. I only earned £175 a month. We have come to Germany because it is the economy’s motor. It is wrong to say the Roma come here for social welfare. We are a big family and won’t survive on social welfare alone. We want to get the kids into school and I want to find work. We are not like all the others. There are good and bad in every nation.’

In the nearby neighbourhood of Untermeiderich, a group of 100 Romanians and Bulgarians have recently moved into an empty block of flats.

Father-of-four Vasile, 23, is from Romania. He claims he is better off in Germany, even without a job. ‘In Romania, I got 10 euros a month for the children, here I get 200 euros,’ he says. ‘We feel comfortable here.’

He has no occupation but finds work ‘here and there’. What sort of work? ‘Metal collecting’. If he fails to find a job next year in Germany he will come to England. I would like to go to Britain because I have heard it is nice and they look after you,’ he says.

Two doors away, single mother-of-four Maria Marin, 35, also has hopes of moving to Britain. She moved to Duisburg with her brother and sister and their families and pays £400 a month rent for her three-bedroom flat. As she talks, she shows off a set of gleaming gold teeth.

‘We live off social welfare but it is very little so I go metal collecting to pay my rent. I don’t like it here, it is a miserable city’, she says. ‘I’d love to come to England next year because they have good social welfare for children.’ Up to a third of the cars parked on the road at 3-5 In Den Peschen have British number plates, suggesting that many of the residents are already living in Britain for part of the year.

Others have Spanish and Italian number plates.

Mrs Halle says: ‘They are moving around Western Europe looking for a better life. They will come to the UK, too, I feel sorry for you already.’

Romanians and Bulgarians who spoke to the Mail said they already had friends and family in England, mostly working as labourers.

Council press spokesman Frank Kopatschek says Duisburg’s problem will soon be Britain’s problem. He says: ‘They have come to us first because we are closer, but it is well known the English benefits system is good, too. They are poorer than you can imagine, so any kind of life here is better than what they know. They will move to rich countries where they know they can get money.’

It would be utterly wrong — and this needs to be stressed — to characterise the Romanians and Bulgarians as scroungers. Clearly many want to work. But equally it would be wrong to deny that in Duisburg tensions between the incomers and local residents are rising.

On Tuesday, a march organised by the German equivalent of the English Defence League will pass through Duisburg. Civil rights groups are organising a counter-march and police are expecting trouble.

Mother-of-two Karin Sommer, 57, is one of the few Germans left in 3-5 In Den Peschen. She rarely leaves her home and has been verbally abused by the Roma residents for allowing the media to film the chaos from her balcony. She watches as two boys play with a discarded tyre in the courtyard below, stopping only to stick up their middle fingers at her.

She says sadly: ‘They are allowed to work here next year but where can they work? There are not even enough jobs for the German people. Many more will come and where will they all live? The EU have told everyone: “Come in, come in”, but they made no preparations and we are the ones left with the problem.

‘We have been left to deal with it and we feel completely alone.’

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anymore doubts of Jewish-controlled Europe ?..................all part of the plan to destroy national identity..............


no one in their right minds will give benefits to non-citizens.......................
 

MeeSiamGirl

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Nothing new. When one German had to come and screw our women and then our forum, you know something is wrong.
 

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[h=1]120,000 Romanians and Bulgarians have already moved to Britain: Census shows in some parts of the country one in ten are Eastern European[/h]
  • Fears of major influx when travel restrictions lifted at the end of the year
  • In Boston, Lincolnshire, 10.7 per cent of population are Eastern European
  • PM announced plans to make access to social benefits harder for migrants
By Steve Doughty
PUBLISHED:23:53 GMT, 26 March 2013| UPDATED:02:04 GMT, 27 March 2013
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Nearly 120,000 Romanians and Bulgarians have already moved to Britain despite not yet being allowed to work freely in this country, official figures showed yesterday.
The data from the 2011 census showed that migration to Britain – at a rate equivalent to 30,000 a year – began as soon as the two countries joined the EU.
The disclosure is fresh evidence that a major movement of Romanian and Bulgarian citizens is likely when restrictions are lifted at the end of the year.

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Findings: The census found that in some parts of the country almost one in 10 of the population are citizens of Eastern European countries


The 119,101 Romanians and Bulgarians are among just under 1 million Eastern European citizens now living in Britain, almost all of whom arrived under open-border rules after their countries joined the EU in 2004 and 2007, the census showed.

It found that in some parts of the country almost one in 10 of the population are citizens of Eastern European countries.
In Boston, Lincolnshire – the town that sparked a fierce argument over the impact of immigration on BBC TV’s Question Time – 10.7 per cent of the population are Eastern European passport-holders.
The figures were released at a time of increased political tension over immigration, amid fears of a large-scale influx of Bulgarians and Romanians next year.
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Plans: Prime Minister David Cameron promised to make it harder for migrants from outside Europe to get NHS treatment and social housing, and for those from inside the EU to claim state benefits

Earlier this week David Cameron tried to reassure voters with promises to make it harder for migrants from outside Europe to get NHS treatment and social housing, and for those from inside the EU to claim state benefits.
Detailed breakdowns published yesterday showed numbers of foreign citizens living in Britain, counted by those who gave their passport nationality on census forms, and of those who declared on the census form the country of their birth.
The real totals may be higher because some – in particular immigrants – have in the past proved reluctant to fill in census forms or provide the full details they demand.
Yesterday’s figures showed there were 73,208 Romanian passport holders in England and Wales on the day the census was taken – 27 March 2011.
No details of Bulgarian passport holders were made public, but the figures showed there were 45,893 who said they were born in Bulgaria.
The census was taken just over four years after the two countries joined the EU, under an agreement that while their citizens would be allowed to travel to and live in Britain, they would not be able to work here as employees.
Those rules have now been lifted and Romanians and Bulgarians get free access to the labour market from 1 January next year.
Sir Andrew Green, of the MigrationWatch think-tank, said: ‘These figures validate our projection that 50,000 people a year will come when citizens of the two countries get free access to the labour market in the New Year.’
The figure does not include 22,000 workers who come as seasonal fruit pickers under a summer work-permit scheme, and then return home.
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Census figures gave an official figure of 988,123 Eastern European citizens present in the country in March 2011 – including 588,082 Poles, 104,676 Lithuanians, and 73,208 Romanians.
Around one and a half million people from the eight Eastern European countries that joined the EU in 2004 are thought to have lived and worked in Britain at some stage.
The census showed the highest concentration of Eastern European citizens in any town in Britain was in Boston, with 10.7 per cent of the population.
The town was at the centre of controversy in January after Cambridge academic Mary Beard told BBC Question Time that local fears over immigration were a ‘myth’ and that ‘public services can cope’.
She was rebuked by businesswoman Rachel Bull, who said services were at ‘breaking point’.
 

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While the PAP is wasting billions on expensive jets, Ships, submarines,.... How much are they spending on the policeing of all these foreigners:confused:

Suspect the PAP is concealing the true extent of crime being committed by foreigners. As well as the costs:rolleyes:
 

Equalisation

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It is necessary for Pappy to give new citizenships to foreigners to boost their vote counts during election. Period !
 

escher

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It is necessary for Pappy to give new citizenships to foreigners to boost their vote counts during election. Period !

Maggots in white will do anything and everything to remain in power. They be paid millions while fucking about with our billions.

THEY WILL DO WHAT THEY FEEL IS NECESSARY TO REMAIN IN POWER WITHOUT REGARDS TO SINGAPOREANS.

WE ALL MUST WORK HARD THAT IN 2016 EVERYONE OF THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS IN WHITE BE THROWN OUT AS THE RUBBISH AND CROOKS THEY ALL ARE
 

singveld

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change the law, do not give money to kids. Stupid european and their democracy. I like singapore one better.
 

sleaguepunter

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neo nazi will once again rear its ugly head once the citizens cannot tahan the gypies.

then the germans will look back to Hitler with fondness.
 

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This was one of the few real Romanian FTs who made it to UK.

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[h=1]How the invasion of immigrants into every corner of England has made a mockery of PM's promise to close the door[/h]
  • The greatest mass migration in our history has taken place
  • Revolutionaries of the Sixties to blame for seeing immigrants as allies
  • Rather than them adapting to their lifestyle, we are adapting to theirs
By Peter Hitchens
PUBLISHED:00:17 GMT, 31 March 2013| UPDATED:00:17 GMT, 31 March 2013

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Was this Britain? Every group of people I passed was speaking Russian. The shops were full of black bread, pickled cucumbers and vodka, the faces were Slavic. The advertisements in the windows were in the Cyrillic script I had come to know so well when I lived, many years before, in Moscow.
Yet here I was in the shadow of a lovely English Gothic church tower, half-way to dear old Skegness, surrounded by fields of English turnips, leeks and sugar beet, under an English heaven.
This was Boston, Lincolnshire, which I had first seen three decades ago as a somnolent, slightly shabby market town where a kindly traffic warden had found me a parking space, saying: ‘We can always find room for a foreigner.’


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Shock: The Lincolnshire town of Boston has seen an influx of immigration form Eastern Europe


In those days, a visitor from London was about as foreign as it got in Boston. Now they were talking Portuguese in the pubs, Polish in the cafes, Latvian and Estonian on the buses. If I had fallen into the river and called out ‘Help!’, I couldn’t even have been sure that anyone would have understood.
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Somehow this transformation was more of a shock, more disturbing and perplexing, than any of the other migration-driven changes I had seen. And that tended to be the attitude of the older residents – not anger, hatred or hostility, we are not like that – but bafflement that such a huge thing could have erupted into their peaceful lives, without anyone warning or asking them.
We had all got used to London being different, long ago. The former mill towns of Yorkshire and Lancashire, with their huge new mosques and veiled women, were a place apart. But Lincolnshire? If it could come here, into Deep England, then it would come to everywhere.
It really is not much good the Prime Minister turning round now and saying to the people of Boston ‘this must stop’. Even if anyone believed he can or will do anything (and his various schemes are as firmly based as Theresa May’s promises to get rid of Abu Qatada), the event has happened.
The greatest mass migration in our history has taken place. The newcomers are lawfully here. They have the jobs, live in the houses, use the NHS. Their children are in the schools. Come to that, they are paying tax.
Our leaders only had to go to Boston, any time in the past five years, and they would have known. But all our leading politicians were afraid of knowing the truth. If they knew, they would at least have to pretend to act. And the truth was, they liked things as they were.
And it was at least partly my own fault. When I was a Revolutionary Marxist, we were all in favour of as much immigration as possible. It wasn’t because we liked immigrants, but because we didn’t like Britain. We saw immigrants – from anywhere – as allies against the staid, settled, conservative society that our country still was at the end of the Sixties. Also, we liked to feel oh, so superior to the bewildered people – usually in the poorest parts of Britain – who found their neighbourhoods suddenly transformed into supposedly ‘vibrant communities’. If they dared to express the mildest objections, we called them bigots.
Revolutionary students didn’t come from such ‘vibrant’ areas (we came, as far as I could tell, mostly from Surrey and the nicer parts of London). We might live in ‘vibrant’ places for a few (usually squalid) years, amid unmown lawns and overflowing dustbins.


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Changing faces: Immigrant workers in the fields near Boston

But we did so as irresponsible, childless transients – not as homeowners, or as parents of school-age children, or as old people hoping for a bit of serenity at the ends of their lives. When we graduated and began to earn serious money, we generally headed for expensive London enclaves and became extremely choosy about where our children went to school, a choice we happily denied the urban poor, the ones we sneered at as ‘racists’.
What did we know, or care, of the great silent revolution which even then was beginning to transform the lives of the British poor? To us, it meant patriotism and tradition could always be derided as ‘racist’. And it also meant cheap servants for the rich new middle-class, for the first time since 1939, as well as cheap restaurants and – later on – cheap builders and plumbers working off the books.
It wasn’t our wages that were depressed, or our work that was priced out of the market. Immigrants didn’t do the sort of jobs we did. They were no threat to us. The only threat might have come from the aggrieved British people, but we could always stifle their protests by suggesting that they were modern-day fascists.
I have learned since what a spiteful, self-righteous, snobbish and arrogant person I was (and most of my revolutionary comrades were, too).
I have seen places that I knew and felt at home in, changed completely in a few short years. I have imagined what it might be like to have grown old while stranded in shabby, narrow streets where my neighbours spoke a different language and I gradually found myself becoming a lonely, shaky-voiced stranger in a world I once knew, but which no longer knew me.
I have felt deeply, hopelessly sorry that I did and said nothing in defence of those whose lives were turned upside down, without their ever being asked, and who were warned very clearly that, if they complained, they would be despised outcasts. And I have spent a great deal of time in the parts of Britain where the revolutionary unintelligentsia don’t go. Such people seldom, if ever, visit their own country. Their orbits are in fashionable London zones, and holiday destinations. They are better acquainted with the Apennines of Italy than with the Pennines of their own country.
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David Goodhart is one of the few Left-wing journalists from the Sixties generation to have recognised he was wrong about immigration

But, unlike me, most of the Sixties generation still hold the views I used to hold and – with the recent, honourable exception of David Goodhart, the Left-wing journalist turned Think Tank boss who recognises he was wrong – they will not change.
The worst part of this is the deep, deep hypocrisy of it. Even back in my Trotskyist days I had begun to notice that many of the migrants from Asia were in fact not our allies. They were deeply, unshakably religious. They were socially conservative. Their attitudes towards girls and women were, in many cases, close to medieval.
Many of them were horribly hostile to Jews, in a way which we would have condemned fiercely if anyone else had expressed it, but which we somehow managed to forgive and forget in their case.
We have recently seen this in the distressing and embarrassing episode of Lord Ahmed’s outburst against a phantom Jewish conspiracy.
But I recall ten years ago, in a Muslim bookshop in the backstreets of Burnley, seeing on open display a modern edition of Henry Ford’s revolting anti-Jewish diatribe The International Jew, long ago disowned by Ford himself. It is unthinkable that any mainstream shop in any High Street could sell this toxic tripe.
Many of these new arrivals, though we revolutionaries welcomed them, knew and cared nothing of the great liberal causes we all supported. Or they were hostile to them.
Many on the Left still lie to themselves about this. George Galloway, the most Left-wing MP in Parliament, owes his seat to the support of conservative Muslims. Yet he voted in favour of same-sex marriage. It would be interesting to be at any meetings where Mr Galloway discusses this with his constituents.
Of course, all political parties are compromises, but there is a big difference between splitting the difference and flatly ignoring a profound clash of principles.
This sort of cynicism has been at the heart of the deal. Immigrants have been used by those who wanted to transform the country. They have taken the parts of them they liked, and made much of them. They have ignored the parts they did not like.
Mr Galloway likes the Muslims’ opposition to the Iraq War and their scorn for New Labour (and good luck to him). But he does not like their views on sexual morality.
The same is true of many others. One of the most striking characteristics of the majority of migrants from the Caribbean is their strong, unashamed Christian faith, and their love of disciplined education.
Yet the arrival of many such people in London was never used as a reason to say our society should become more Christian, or our schools should be better-ordered.
At that time, the revolutionary liberals were hoping to wave goodbye to the Church, and were busy driving discipline out of the state schools. So nobody ever said ‘Let us adapt our society to the demands of these newcomers’. They had the wrong sort of demands.
Instead, the authorities made much of the behaviour of a minority of such migrants, often much disliked by their fellow Afro-Caribbeans – men who took and sold illegal drugs and who were not prepared to respect British law. If proper policing of such people could be classified as ‘racist’, then the drug laws as a whole could be weakened, and the police placed under liberal control.

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MP George Galloway shares his Mulsim supporters views on the Iraq War but does he like their views on sexual morality?

This is why the so-called ‘Brixton Riots’ of April 1981 were used as a lever to weaken the police and undermine the drug laws, rather than as a reason to restore proper law and peace to that part of London.
Something very similar happened with the Macpherson Report into the murder of Stephen Lawrence. Few noticed that the report openly urged that people from different ethnic groups should be policed in different ways – and actually condemned ‘colour-blind’ policing.
In whose interests was this? And wasn’t this attitude, that different types of behaviour could be expected from different ethnic groups, racially prejudiced? But what did that matter, if it suited the revolutionary liberal agenda of purging the police of old-fashioned conservative types? The same forces destroyed Ray Honeyford, a Bradford headmaster who – long before it was fashionable – tried to stand up against political correctness in schools. He was driven from his job and of course condemned as a ‘racist’.
Yet it would have been very much in the interests of integration and real equality in Bradford if his warnings had been heeded and acted upon. As it is, as any observant visitor finds, Bradford’s Muslim citizens and its non-Muslim citizens live in two separate solitudes, barely in contact with each other. Much of the Islamic community is profoundly out of step with modern Britain.
Once again, revolutionary liberals had formed a cynical alliance to destroy conservative opposition.
Their greatest ally has always been the British Tory politician Enoch Powell who, in a stupid and cynical speech in 1968, packed with alarmist language and sprinkled with derogatory expressions and inflammatory rumour, defined debate on the subject of immigration for 40 years.
[h=3]700,000 EASTERN EUROPEAN HAVE MOVED TO UK[/h]
  • It is impossible to calculate the precise scale of mass immigration into the UK. However, about 2.5 million Commonwealth immigrants have settled here since 1962, and the most cautious estimate of East European migrants now is around 700,000.
  • The only other two concentrated waves of immigration since the Norman invasion of 1066 are almost negligible by comparison: 50,000 French Protestant Huguenot refugees around 1670, and about 120,000 Jews from Russia and what is now Poland, between 1881 and 1914. Comparably small numbers of Poles and Hungarians came as refugees from Communist tyranny in the 1940s and 1950s.
  • Many Irish people have come to England and Scotland and about two million live here. But Ireland was part of the UK until 1922, so it is hard to equate this with migration from Eastern Europe, Africa or Asia.
  • Large-scale migration from EU countries began in 2004. It is controlled by EU directives, which Britain has no choice but to obey. Britain could have restricted arrivals to some extent until 2011 (many EU countries did). But Britain’s traditionally free society makes it difficult to keep track of EU nationals once they have arrived here, which they can do without restriction as they hold EU passports.
  • Migrationwatch UK, a body calling for immigration restrictions, says 36 per cent of housing demand is created by immigrants – 200 new homes a day over the next 25 years. It says the UK will have a population of 70 million by 2028 (it is now 61m), needing a new Birmingham-sized city every three years.



Thanks to him, and his undoubted attempt to mobilise racial hostility, the revolutionary liberals have ever afterwards found it easy to accuse any opponent of being a Powellite.
Absurdly, even when Britain’s frontiers were demolished by the Blair Government and hundreds of thousands of white-skinned Europeans came here to work, it was still possible to smear any doubters as ‘racists’.
It couldn’t have been more obvious that ‘race’ wasn’t the problem. The thing that made these new residents different was culture – language, customs, attitudes, sense of humour.
Rather than them adapting to our way of life, we were adapting to theirs. This wasn’t integration. It was a revolution. Yet nobody – especially their elected representatives – would listen to them, because they were assumed to be Powellite bigots, motivated by some sort of unreasoning hatred.
I now believe that the unreasoning hatred comes almost entirely from the liberal Left. Of course, there are still people who harbour stupid racial prejudices. But most of those concerned about immigration are completely innocent of such feelings.
The screaming, spitting intolerance comes from a pampered elite who are ashamed of their own country, despise patriotism in others and feel none themselves. They long for a horrible borderless Utopia in which love of country has vanished, nannies are cheap and other people’s wages are low.
What a pity it is that there seems to be no way of turning these people out of their positions of power and influence. For if there is to be any hope of harmony in these islands, then it can only come through a great effort to bring us all together, once again, in a shared love for this, the most beautiful and blessed plot of earth on the planet.
 
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