Listening to the BBC ‘report’ on the ever-growing migrant pressure on EU borders and you’d think that Hungary alone was the ‘villain’ of the piece as the BBC blitzes Hungary and pours scorn and contempt upon it whilst at the same time downplaying problems and policy changes in heroic Germany. The BBC for some reason seems to believe Hungary doesn’t have a right to impose border controls and the tone adopted by the BBC reporter’s is more often than not one tinged with contempt and disbelief…and whilst they continue to refer to Hungary they fail to mention in the same reports that Germany itself, and other countries, is imposing border controls and is also trying to send back Kosovans and Albanians. There is little acknowledgement from the BBC that there is going to be a massive problem as the migrant flow continues and Europe’s policy of accepting anyone who steps foot inside Europe as a migrant will have obvious and shattering consequences for Europe as people around the world realise that once they get to Europe the Europeans will feel obliged to house, feed, clothe, educate and nurse them and that a powerful media elite is on hand to make sure that any attempt to restrain or deport them will be represented in the most brutal and disturbing ways possible with all the usual highly emotive references to the Holocaust, Berlin Walls and suffering exploited to the full.
This morning on the Today programme we heard that Hungary was implementing the Dublin Regulation that said asylum seekers should claim asylum in the first safe country they land in. The BBC reporter ignored the fact that the migrants had been through numerous safe countries such as Turkey and declared that the UN had stated that Serbia was not safe for refugees thus attempting to paint Hungary as the bad guys…indeed the UN has said that Serbia is ‘unsafe’…
Until such a system is fully established in Serbia, for the reasons stated above, UNHCR recommends that Serbia not be considered a safe third country of asylum, and that countries therefore refrain from sending asylum-seekers back to Serbia on this basis.
But what is the reason, why is Serbia ‘unsafe’?
UNHCR has worked closely and intensively with the Serbian asylum authorities both before and after Serbia assumed responsibility for the conduct of the asylum procedure in April 2008. Despite some incremental improvements notably with regard to reception standards, Serbia’s asylum system has been unable to cope with the recent increases in the numbers of asylum applicants. This has exposed significant shortcomings in numbers of personnel, expertise, infrastructure, implementation of the legislation and government support.
Purely logistical….there is no ‘danger’….Serbia is not ‘unsafe’ as you and I would understand it in terms of war and persecution…it’s just slow and under-resourced to cope with large numbers of migrants.
And on that basis not only Hungary but Germany itself could be declared ‘unsafe’ for refugees as their own systems cannot possibly cope with the numbers…as Der Spiegel tells us…
The Breaking Point? Germany’s Asylum System Struggles to Cope
As the migrant influx continues, the ‘Refugees Welcome’ high is beginning to wear off. People are beginning to wonder if Germany will really be able to cope with all the newcomers. And the system is already completely overwhelmed.
The German system is in near meltdown but the BBC prefers to ignore that and instead presents us with a misleading interpretation of events to spin against Hungary and its policy. Germany is as ‘unsafe’ as Serbia.
Here the BBC continues that spin about Germany, suggesting that the closing of the German borders is not about the vast numbers causing unmanageable chaos but is a result of ‘Right-wing’ pressure…
Why has Germany changed its mind?
In fact Mrs Merkel’s policy hasn’t actually changed so much – but the message has, and it is mainly a political one to her allies in government.
The chancellor is already regarded with suspicion by many on the right of her party, who accuse her of dragging the Christian Democrats to the middle-ground to win votes.
Being soft on migrants only confirms their worst suspicions.
After blaming the ‘Right’ the BBC then admits the truth…but still manages to portray it as the Right having mistaken and prejudiced views..
This is a huge logistical challenge which the authorities only just managed to pull off, thanks in part to help from local people.
So controlling the borders temporarily is supposed to give regional authorities breathing space, as well as allay the fears of state leaders and right-wing allies that the situation is out of control.
The situation isn’t really ‘out of control’ the BBC seems to suggest, that’s just a cover for less savoury anti-immigrant, right-wing, conservative attitudes presumably….naturally their views are ‘unjustified’ and irrational.
Curiously, whilst the BBC frets about the Hungarian fence it barely mentioned the German’s deciding to ignore the Dublin Regulation that said migrants must apply for asylum in the first country they land in….and then the BBC downplays the Germans reinstating this EU regulation…here failing to mention the previous decision to ignore it….
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere has made it clear that EU rules are still valid, and that migrants must register and apply for asylum in the first EU country they arrive in.
Odd how the Germans can ignore EU treaty regulations at will and the Brits can’t, and that it is Hungary that gets all the vilification for its decision to regulate the flow of migrants in a more orderly fashion and impose the EU treaty regulations in regard to the Dublin Regulation.
Oh yes…getting to the title of this post…the Guardian publishes this:
The refugee crisis will hit the UK’s working class areas hardest
The article tells us that the white working class suffer the most from the massive influx of migrants and their problems and concerns have long been ignored by the politicans, the Media and the ‘do-gooders’….and they are afraid to speak out because if they do they are then labelled ‘racists’ and they are being priced out of housing as a result of the migrant invasion.
The Guardian says:
As a researcher focusing for more than a decade on inequality and the stigmatisation of working-class people and communities, particularly connected to council estates, I fear what will follow this summer’s refugee crisis.
The women I was working with in Nottingham were aware of how accusations of white working-class racism are played with by politicians, the media and the do-gooders, as they called teachers and social workers – the people who, they knew, never had to put up with this. They were careful about what they said, and who they complained to, about those they called the Iraqis….they told me that they were most unhappy and frightened that every day, as they walked through the precinct, a group of men they referred to as “Iraqis” were constantly asking them for “business”, meaning sex. It happened to me on several occasions. The women felt angry and disrespected at these incidents.
One woman told me that she and a group of women had “battered” (physically attacked) “one of the Iraqi asylum seekers” for asking to buy sex from one of the women’s 15-year-old daughter. When I spoke to this woman about it, she said: “Why should we be the only ones having to put up with this?”
The women in Nottingham and in Bethnal Green are fully aware of the pressures on the limited resources within their neighbourhoods, and they know they are expected to share the very little they have, while others may stand in judgment of their complaints. They see this as something else they have no control over. The dominant narrative in Britain for working-class people is about feeling powerless, having no say, being disrespected, and having accusations of ignorance, small-mindedness and racism thrown at you if you point out that your neighbourhood can’t take much more.
But then we get to the real Guardian agenda…as always there’s a sting in the tail as the white working class are exploited by the Guardian do-gooders to attack the government welfare policies…
The women of Nottingham said to me in 2005 “we don’t begrudge anyone a roof who needs it”, but at the core of suspicion and fear of the “other” is the lack of resources. The consequence of austerity measures is that working-class families all over Britain have found themselves struggling to stay in their homes, to feed and clothe their families, and to keep warm. As people are being evicted from their homes because of the bedroom tax, and hundreds of thousands socially cleansed out of parts of London, Bristol and Manchester because the land they live on is worth more than they are, we cannot allow local councils and private landlords to profit from Osborne’s offer to fund homes for refugees in Britain.
Actually it’s not just a ‘lack of resources’ but social, cultural and political concerns as Muslim immigrants move in and try to change the norms of a British way of life to suit themselves….as we’ve just looked at...
Canon CHRIS CHIVERS ‘I’d previously worked in South Africa, in Cape Town, which is of course emerging from an apartheid history which was deeply divided and deeply divisive, and I think I can honestly say that I’ve never worked in such a segregated community, or lived in one as this’…..in Blackburn, UK.
And as Charles Moore reminds us:
It seemed to me that most Muslim leaders saw their role not in integrating Muslims in Britain, but in asserting difference and increasing their muscle. Many favoured sharia law trumping British law. They would not support Muslim membership of the Armed Forces if those forces were deployed against Muslim countries. They wanted it to be illegal to attack Islam, let alone denigrate its prophet; and they waged constant “lawfare” to try to silence their critics. They tended, I thought, to see the advance of their cause as a zero-sum game in which the authorities had to cede more ground (sometimes it is literally a matter of territory) to Muslims.
And what of that last bit….’we cannot allow local councils and private landlords to profit from Osborne’s offer to fund homes for refugees in Britain.‘?
Clearly all these ‘refugees’ need somewhere to live…and it is the council and private landlords who will provide the homes…homes that previously would have gone to British residents…so where will the displaced British residents who have been waiting years for a home go?
Here we hear that it won’t displace British people, but of course it will…and the EU is going to pay, along with the British over-seas aid budget….people might feel aggrieved that so many resources can be suddenly found to help ‘refugees’ whilst they have been ignored and left to fend for themselves for years.
It isn’t about asking landlords to donate the housing for free. The first 12 months will be paid for by the European Union under a scheme for placing vulnerable refugees. “We’re not asking for charitable homes, we are asking that people who would be renting out a property anyway will consider this scheme, and take a year out of their private rentals and be paid by the EU instead.”
It won’t displace British people queuing for housing here. We’re not suggesting they be put on the housing register; we are alive to the sensitivity of that as an issue.”
That was always a fraud that made me laugh when councils declared that migrants didn’t take housing from those on the housing register because the council kept a separate list of houses for migrants…so the council may have 150 houses available and puts 100 on the housing register and keeps back 50 for migrants who have their own register…this allows the council to claim that migrants don’t jump the queue for housing because they are not in the same queue, on the same register. Clever huh? Smoke and mirrors.
Brits are being denied housing because of immigration, housing price rises and a massive shortfall in the number of houses available, a shortage that can only get worse as more and more migrants flood in….just where do those near 700,000 migrants that came here in the last two years live? Where will next year’s 300,000 + live?
The system’s broke, the future’s grim and the BBC thinks all is wonderful.
“That was always a fraud that made me laugh when councils declared that migrants didn’t take housing from those on the housing register because the council kept a separate list of houses for migrants…so the council may have 150 houses available and puts 100 on the housing register and keeps back 50 for migrants who have their own register…this allows the council to claim that migrants don’t jump the queue for housing because they are not in the same queue, on the same register. Clever huh? Smoke and mirrors.”
And yet, when a public sector house is sold to a sitting tenant the Guardian sees that as a ‘lost’ house.
Fabulous article!
Chesapeake School Board chief’s Facebook post sparks concern from Muslim groups
By Mike Connors
The Virginian-Pilot
© September 16, 2015
CHESAPEAKE
Muslim organizations have raised concerns about a Facebook post shared by School Board Chairwoman Christie New Craig.
The post is a cartoon that reads, “Muslims hate pork, beer, dogs, bikinis, Jesus, and freedom of speech. My question is, what the hell do they come to America for?!”
Craig, who was elected in 2010 and has been chairwoman since January 2014, acknowledged she shared the post last month but said she did not mean to offend anyone. She said she is willing to talk with anyone troubled by the situation.
When asked about it recently, M’hammed Abdous, president of the Muslim Community of Tidewater, said he learned from a Chesapeake resident that Craig shared the cartoon.
“I found it saddening and disappointing that kind of language came from someone involved in educating children,” Abdous said.
Craig, who is a legislative assistant to state Sen. John Cosgrove, shared the cartoon on her personal Facebook page. It is not connected to Chesapeake Public Schools, and she said she shares many posts on that page.
She also said she did not comment on the post or endorse it in any way.
“I did not post that maliciously,” she said last week.
She also said she does not hate any racial groups or religions.
“I’m not racist. I wasn’t raised that way,” she said.
Abdous would like Craig to apologize to those offended by her sharing of the post. But more important to him, he said, is that she learn from the experience.
The statement in the cartoon is not accurate, Abdous said. For instance, Muslims are taught to consider Jesus a holy person who was a prophet, he said.
Abdous said he would like to see Craig educate herself about Islam and spread the knowledge she gains.
“I think perhaps the best option for her would be to get more information,” he said.
The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations sent out news releases in recent days reprimanding Craig and demanding an investigation from Chesapeake school officials. No one spoke on the issue during the public comments period at a School Board meeting Monday, and no board members addressed the topic.
The board’s next regular meeting is set for Sept. 28.
After Monday night’s meeting, Craig reiterated that she did not mean to offend anyone. She also said she’d be happy to speak with any concerned community members.
“I don’t have a problem with anyone calling me and educating,” she said.
http://hamptonroads.com/2015/09/chesapeake-school-board-chiefs-facebook-post-sparks-concern-muslim-groups#_ga=1.18051129.1219772060.1442410229
Guess our US Muslim chum doesn`t know about Trojan Horse over here then?
Great article.
Heard Martha Kearney getting the usual “what would you like to say to those horrid Hungarians, Minister” meme out for Croatias BBC-chosen mouthpiece de jour,
Funny how Serbia and Croatia-non EU as far as I can tell-get sympathetic coverage at last, apres Milosevic etc.
Funny too that when Hungary closes its borders and plays by Schengen and Dublin rules/protocols…that`s “lacking class”…but when the Germans close THEIR borders and threaten to financially dob in other nations for not agreeing to do what the MausFrau says…the BBC turn the other cheek…as they do when a load of fresh chickens come a roosting from exotic climes.
Nah-Hungary are single-handedly holding back the Muslim hordes for the rest of Europe-and the Eurabian quislings like the BBC and Merckel don`t care much for this show of independence and legalities.
I leave you with the TRUE voice of Hungary….he`s a businessman who sells motorbike parts-but packs more history and context into one sentence that the Guardian has ever done…thank God, Hungarys education system and culture isn`t as broken and supine as ours.
God Bless you Adam Topolanksy
http://hungarytoday.hu/news/useful-idiots-west-creation-chaos-mass-migration-adam-topolansky-65421
If migrants must register in the first EU country they arrive in, why isn’t Greece being criticised by the EU? Surely the vast majority of the migrants are arriving there. Why therefore is Hungary being singled out for criticism? I suspect it is largely to do with Mr Orban’s statement about culture, Muslims and integration, which must have sent a shiver down the spine of every bien-pensant throughout the EU. Leftist Europe has decided Orban is a rogue leader who must be punished, like Jorg Haider.
I also believe that Serbia is allowing millions of Muslims to go to Germany, as payback to Germany for what Germany did to Serbs, not just in WWII, but in the Yugoslavia war.
Serbia could well have the last laugh.
Cranmer, I believe it is because this current situation is Greece’s gift to Europe for royally screwing them over. How can they afford this? Who knows what was said by the EU to Greece during the negotiations. Germany is now telling everyone what to do whether they like it or not. Where have we heard that before?
The Phil Williams late night show 5Live
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0699qw1
[36 mins 20 secs]
An interesting discussion with Zoltan Kovac (?) a Hungarian politician about the migrant crisis and how the migrants are using “human shields” in the form of their own children and women by pushing them to the front of the crowd. Phil Williams has the journalistic skills of a teenage wannabe. He doesn’t hide from the biased assumption that the use of tear gas and water cannons are unjustified, but when Zoltan calmly explains that Hungarian police were suffering serious injuries because the migrants were attacking them with sticks (and whatever else), presenter Mr Williams decides to imagine – perhaps for the sake of Devil’s advocate, but I would say through his own bias – a Hungary that might use (as he says) “something more extreme than tear gas and water cannon”.
Posing such senarios before they happen conjure up dark images, so there’s the proof of bias right there! Phil Williams could be forgiven if he just admitted his broadcast output is spoon-fed from the producer behind the studio window.
Otherwise he is a prize tw*t!
I was rather hoping Hungary would use live ammo on the young Men attacking them, but sadly they seem to be sticking with tear gas and water cannon.
Perhaps rubber bullets might be next, fingers crossed.