Borders Out Of Control - In The EU

The EU has set up an insane immigration system that is an invitation nearly uncontrolled third world immigration. Ireland, being one of the few sane countries across the pond, passed a law to stop some of the worst abuses. Their law provided that non-EU spouses of EU citizens were deportable. No longer, per the highest Court in the EU.

EU law currently provides a backdoor for mass third world immigration, and the highest Court in the EU just opened the door much wider. Current EU law, actually dating back to the Treaty of Rome, provides that once a person lawfully becomes an EU citizen, they can automatically bring over their entire family. The way this works in Britain is that the socialist Labour Party is allowing large scale immigration from Pakistan that then itself gets significantly augmented. Once in Britain, a large number of the Pakistanis are importing wives from Pakistan. You can figure out the math from there. It has created an immigration/emigration nightmare in Britain.

Ireland tried to put the squelch on this occurring in their country. But today, their law was overturned, thus exposing Ireland to the same inability to control their borders as enjoyed by all the other provinces of that great experiment in socialism, the EU. But this decision of the EU even went farther, in essence giving illegal aliens the right to EU citizenship so long as they marry an EU citizen before being physically deported. As Hibernia Girl states:

This is not just some little loophole that failed asylum seekers will now be able to exploit -- this is a GAPING hole in the EU's immigration population replacement policy that is obviously being forced on all Europeans whether we like it or not.

Read the whole post. And see the detailed explanation of the EU ruling and its ramifications at EU Referendum.

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EU Chickens Coming Home to Roost In The UK

I wonder how many people in Britain understand that their economic woes are just beginning – and that in one form or another, the EU lies at the heart of those woes. As I’ve blogged here, here and here, the EU portends to cause severe economic distress to the people of Britain because of open borders immigration, energy policy, over regulation of the economy, and rising taxation. There are several articles in the British papers over the last few days that bear out these warnings.

The Daily Mail reports that inflation in food prices and energy are rising at 7% or more, a fact that is having a severe impact on the elderly living on fixed incomes.

The EU has thrown open Britain’s borders. Possibly the best kept secret in Britain is that they do not control their borders. The strain on infrastructure, crime and the impact on natives of Britain are all severe – and in the papers today.

Immigration is at record levels, with close to 600,000 immigrants allowed into Britain. And with record immigration comes record emigration of British natives. Emigration reached 250,000 people in 2007, with most leaving "to escape high levels of crime and tax." This is up by an amazing 20% in just one year.

And as to crime, be it organized or Islamic, that ties into EU mandated immigration also. It was reported today that "most organized crime committed in Britain has its origins abroad. . . [G]un crime, drugs and people smuggling are heavily linked to overseas gangsters. . . . Most of the crimes we are dealing with are international. The source of the trouble starts elsewhere." And don’t forget the problem with radical Islamists. Contrary to what Labour posits, Orwell cannot be enlisted to make that problem disappear. And if you add on top of it a heavy layer of multiculturaly motivated bureaucracy to keep the police from offending any of the minority population, that only compounds the crime problem.

Meanwhile, the BBC has issued a startling report on the tremendous strain on Britain’s infrastructure brought about by the intersection of immigration, procreation and the NHS. The facts they state are:

NHS costs for maternity services have more then doubled in a decade to £350 million.

- "Immigration has raised the birth rate so fast that some units have closed, so that midwives could be moved to areas of urgent need."

- "[M]aternity units have turned expectant mothers away because they could not cope with unprecedented increases in the local birth rate."

- "When Labour came to power, the NHS spent around £1bn a year on maternity services, with one baby in eight delivered to a foreign-born mother. Ten years on, spending has risen to £1.6bn, with almost one baby in four delivered to a mother born overseas."

- "While the number of babies born to British mothers has fallen by 44,000 a year since the mid-1990s, the figure for babies born to foreign mothers has risen by 64,000 - a 77% increase which has pushed the overall birth-rate to its highest level for 26 years."

- "In central London, . . . six out of every 10 babies born has a foreign-born mother."

And with the massive immigration comes rationing of healthcare as there are now many more people competing for it. In a tax payer funded, government run system, supply and demand are not the decisive factors. And you thought just because you paid your taxes your entire life that you would be entitled to free NHS treatment your government had promised?

And then there is taxation. I blogged a few days ago that local council taxes are outpacing inflation – and the strain of immigration is the cause of that. And there have also been other significant, if stealth, rises in taxation that seem actually more like Labour greed than directly related to the EU. But I will include the story here to the extent that there is a relationship.

There are a few things that amaze me about all of the above. The EU role at the heart of each problem named above is clear. Yet in none of the stories is the EU even mentioned. Further, Britain is strangling under uncontrolled immigration. Yet, to even complain about that or suggest bringing to a halt is political and social suicide even now. The chattering classes have a stanglehold on Britain at the moment. But hit the bulk of Brits in the pocketbook enough times, subject them to enough crime, and eventually what you will get is a revolt.

At any rate, the EU chickens are coming home to roost in Britain. Indeed, they have just begun to cluck and mess on the floors. I wonder how long it will be before the average Brit wakes up and decides that EU chicken tenders are on the menu.

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Can You Sing "God Save The Queen" In English?

Britain has no control over its borders because of EU law and is being flooded with immigrants at record levels - as emigration of UK natives has also reached record levels. Today's news from the Telegraph puts these facts in shocking perspective. Today, in the UK, native English speakers are the minority in more than 1 of every 20 schools:

Children with English as their first language are now in the minority in more than 1,300 schools, according to official figures.

. . . The figures show that in a total of 1,338 primary and secondary schools - more than one in 20 of all schools in England - children with English as their first language are in the minority.

In 600 of these schools, fewer than a third of pupils speak English as their first language.

The disclosure led to warnings that the rising number of foreign pupils without a decent grasp of English was putting intense pressure on teachers and undermining education standards.

The figures have fuelled demands from teachers' leaders for more money to help meet the costs of teaching foreign-born children.

Teachers' unions said educating a single non-English-speaking pupil could cost as much as £30,000 a year.

Coping with large numbers of foreign children risked undermining the quality of teaching given to all pupils, they said.

Philip Parkin, the general secretary of the Professional Association of Teachers, said rising levels of immigration and a lack of multi-lingual teaching staff were "providing serious challenges" for schools trying to maintain standards.

Dealing with non-English- speaking children "makes it much harder to deliver the curriculum", Mr Parkin said.

"Schools that are in that position need considerable support in order to give those children help with English and help with our curriculum.

. . . Data from the Department for Children, Schools and Families show that in 574 of the 17,361 primary schools in England, children without English as a first language make up between 51 and 70 per cent of all pupils.

Another 569 primaries have more than 70 per cent who count English as a second language.

In 112 of the 3,343 secondary schools, children without English as a first language make up 51 to 70 per cent of all pupils. In another 83 secondary schools, the proportion is above 70 per cent.

The total number of schools where pupils with a first language other than English make up at least 51 per cent of the population is 1,338.

Following patterns of immigration, children who do not speak English as a first language are heavily concentrated in certain areas of the country, especially London.

The 20 councils with the highest concentration of non-English speaking children are in London.

In the borough of Newham, nine out of 10 schools have a non-English first language majority. The same is true of a third of schools in Leicester and in Blackburn, and a quarter of schools in Birmingham.

Gordon Brown last week repeated calls for immigrants to learn English, but critics say he is not doing enough to fund proper language teaching for immigrant children.

David Davis, the Conservative shadow home secretary, accused the Government of failing to meet the costs of its immigration policy.

"We have been warning the Government for years now of the consequences for schools of the very high rate of immigration," he said. "This shows how many schools will face real difficulties." . . .

Read the entire story here. The truly amazing thing in reading the constant litany of stories about the U.K.'s immigration problem is that you hear next to nothing about the long term effect this will have on all aspects of British life and culture. It is suicide by open borders. I am unsure whether it is multiculturalism taken to its logical suicidal conclusion but, reading the news across the pond, it would seem raising the ramifications of Britain's open borders has been tantamount to heresy ever since Enoch Powell's "Rivers of Blood" speech in 1968, It generates not reasoned and thoughtful debate but only opprobrium. I have yet to see one reasoned discussion by a politician that addresses the causes and ramifications of this immigration castrophe. Its Harry Potter brought to life . . . with the "policy that shall not be named." Can someone across the pond enlighten me on this?

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Britain's Growing Problems of Immigration & Emigration

Until now, the very topic of immigration has been off limits in Britain. Anyone with the termerity to raise the issue was charged by the chattering class with being a racist. Indeed, it was only last week that a Tory MP candidate was forced to withdraw from the political race for remarks on immigration that, while aggressive, were well within the realm of what should be reasoned debate at this point in Britain.

The forced resignation of the Tory MP candidate shows that the Tories and their leader, David Cameron, do not have the stomach to force a much needed debate. Out of control immigration, both from within and without the EU, and rising emigration are drastically changing the face of Britain. Both are a result of the disastorous years of multicultural social experimentation by the left made all the worse by EU law that in effect, mandates open borders as regards immigration by citizens of the EU:

Britain is experiencing unprecedented levels of immigration with more than half a million foreigners arriving to live here in a single year, new figures show.

Last year, 510,000 foreign migrants came to the UK to stay for at least 12 months, according to the Office for National Statistics. At the same time 400,000 people, more than half of whom were British, emigrated.

An exodus on this scale - amounting to one British citizen leaving the country every three minutes - has not been seen in the UK for almost 50 years.

Overall in 2006, there were a record 591,000 new arrivals. Only 14 per cent of these were Britons coming home.

It is the first time the number of foreign migrants has topped half a million and the statistics do not include hundreds of thousands of east Europeans who have arrived to work in Britain in the past two years. This is because most say they are coming for less than 12 months and do not show up as long-term immigrants.

The figures suggest that only one sixth of the immigrants were from the states which joined the EU in 2004.

The biggest influx was from the New Commonwealth - India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka - with more than 200,000 migrants.

Since Labour came to power in 1997, nearly four million foreign nationals have come to Britain and 1.6 million have left. Over the same period, 1.8 million Britons have left, but only 979,000 have returned.

. . . Yet despite high levels of emigration and a low birth rate, the population is still growing rapidly because of immigration by the equivalent to a city the size of Bristol every year.

This is placing huge pressures on public services, with councils claiming they are not getting enough financial help from the Government.

Sir Simon Milton, the chairman of the Local Government Association, said the Government - which earlier this month had to apologise for publishing incorrect figures on foreign migrants working in Britain - had no clear idea of where all the immigrants were going and their impact on services.

. . . Sir Andrew Green, the chairman of Migrationwatch, said: "Two thirds of yet another record level of arrivals come from outside the EU.

"They could and should be subject to much tighter controls."

Damian Green, the Conservative immigration spokesman, said: "These figures prove that immigration is still running at unsustainably high levels.

"This is the direct result of the Government's 'open door' approach which has totally failed to consider the impact of immigration on public services, housing and community cohesion."

. . . Little research has been done into the reasons for the exodus of Britons, though it appears more are going abroad to retire though many younger people are leaving to work.

A study last year by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) suggested that one in 12 UK nationals may now be living abroad.

There are 250,000 second homes owned by British nationals in France alone.

Surveys indicate that another one million are set to pack their bags for good over the next five years and a further 500,000 live abroad for part of the year.

. . . The difference of around three million between the emigration of British nationals and immigration of foreigners represents a five per cent turnover of the population in 10 years.

Previous immigrations did not exceed one per cent over 50 years.

This significant turnaround in population has inevitably changed its ethnic composition.

Over the past 20 years, the white British population has decreased slightly while the number of ethnic-minority Britons has doubled.

. . . Little research has been done into the reasons for the current exodus of Britons, although it appears more are going abroad to retire while many younger people are leaving to work.

Read the article here. I love the line in there about no one is sure why there is such an exodus of native Britons. Britain's open borders policy is a product of the "multicultural" mindset - and it is working a tremendous change to the face of Britain. Perhaps this article by Professor Daniel Pipes might provide an explanation for what seems to be a very mysterious situation to the British chattering class. As one of Her Majesty's subjects recently remarked to me, "its the chattering classes who, having bulloxed everything up, are now the ones leading the charge out of Britain while the rest of are left to sort out their mess."

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