Joyful reporting from the BBC as my part of the world gets its first dosage of Syrian refugees. It does not appear to have crossed the BBC’s mind that since these “refugees” have been hoisted upon us not everyone shares the emulation! It also ensures voices of dissent are well and truly muted.
Well I am sure the news will encourage another 100,000 to take to the boats. Allahu Akbar !!!… what the traffikers promise is true !!!!.
The BBC seem shocked that the first of these Syrian refugees who was hoisted onto Glasgow (not that Scot who voted for Sturgeon can complain since the SNP is all for mass immigration) said he felt he was in paradise.
Do they not realise that compared to most of the world Britain is a paradise to live in, and for this reason millions want to come here? Its not as they like to suggest so they can work hard for a few years, earn some money and go home. If that was what they wanted theyd be choosing a contract job in Dubai (thats if they really are as ‘highly skilled’ as the BBC wants us to believe).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-35016687
While we in Wales are continually told that Councils do not have enough money to spend on welfare services, schools, hospitals etc etc for the elderly and sick who have paid into the system all their lives?
what a great post-yes Britain is a paradise, It has been built on sweat, toil and endeavour. so it is interesting now if nations give up on making their own countries great places to live they simply move to another. No attempt to work on improving their own lot. I have spent a great deal of time living and working in the developing world where most young people I spoke with expressed a desire not to build and improve their country but to somehow get to Europe/Australia/ Canada/New Zealand/USA. Again all countries built on effort and endeavour. Why don’t these developing nations have the pride and application to do the same.
Because we’re interfering at every level. From government down to the charity worker in the desert. We try to help them with the caveat that we are from a better place. Until their own governments take responsibility for the misery they are causing, nothing will change.
“Because we’re interfering at every level.”
Another idiot comment. They are quite capable of being venal and exploitative without any help from the West.
Eh?
Our ancestors too were ruled by people who caused misery but by their own efforts gradually changed to better governance.
I daresay they too would have run away to somewhere where life was much better if they could have, but there was nowhere to run to. Perhaps that is the way Third World countries will be forced to resolve their problems – dont give them an alternative.
Will, I have had exactly the same experience in Africa. It is the lack pride and belief in hard work which is the most difficult to understand.
Hate to say it but David Cameron has done a pretty good job limiting the tide of Islamic migrants. Germany has taken 1,000,000 and we have promised to take 20,000. I know we’ll end up getting a lot more but short a Trump like declaration of “No More Muslims” it’s about as good as we could have hoped for. Well done Dave.
Germany invited them , then they should ‘keep em’ . Simple
Out of sight, out of mind, do you think ? Perhaps you’ve forgotten that ‘freedom of movement’ thing ?
Maybe so with the Syrian refugees but that is more than undone by his useless attempts to curb net immigration.
What would be wrong with a Trump like declaration? Why would anyone want the adherents of that poisonous religion flitting about our streets in IS garb?
Alex F.
Cameron wants us to stay in Europe , so unless he finds a way to keep European immigrants out (and he’s not even trying) then as soon as Germany’s immigrants get citizenship, hundreds of thousands of them will head here – especially the dumbest who havent managed to learn German but can already speak some English. So I doubt we’ll have reason to say ‘well done’ to Dave!
In three years that one million will have German passports.
By which time Germany will not be so welcoming and if we are still in the EU…
“Well done Dave”? I say, steady on there…
Alex is correct, Cameron had few options, I think he managed to achieve the best of a bad lot. If he still had the LibDems hanging round his neck the situation now would be worse.
And those refugees which Dave has accepted are, (as far as I am aware), genuine refugees flown in from the refugee camps we all paid for through our taxes. They are not a disperate bunch of terrorists from all over Africa and the Middle East, pretending to be Syrians, as are pouring through the EU at the moment.
Wait a bit and see just how many he eventually accepts.
Yes I fear that as the liberal left unite under the banner of the BBC they will chip away at his resolve and the Tories will be forced to accept more. I am sure that the BBC et al take the view that one drowned toddler photo, real or fake, is worth 10,000 on the total. So we can expect more and more harrowing stories being served up to us by the unholy alliance of the BBC and the Bishops. But I agree that so far the PM has done a good job on this issue and protected the country from the worst excesses of the silly liberal left.
The other major factor will be when that moron Merkle grants the hordes of assorted ‘refugees’ in Germany some sort of legal status which may allow them to enter the UK and by pass any border controls. That alone is an excellent reason to vote to leave the EU.
Merkel is still insisting that the Basic Law, the German constitution, would be violated if even one self-declaring “refugee” was turned away at the German border. She keeps declaring that as the Basic Law does not set an upper limit, there cannot be an upper limit in practics. As if passing a law to abolish gravity, would actually lead to a “gravity switchoff” in reality. The woman is completely insane. She seems to see herself as a latter day Moses, lezding a people that are not hers into the Promised Land. All she wants is a slow down in the numbers entering Germany so that “integration can take place”. The camps in Turkey are only a temporary measure. Eventually, they will all be accomodated in Germany.
ID, You are right. Mad Merkel is completely insane. I don’t care so long as they all stay in Germany but she is , in her fascist way, trying to foist them on the rest of us. The “good Germans” will remove her but it may be too late by then !
But they won’t all stay in Germany. I understand that after 5 years residence they become German citizens and unless we see the error of our ways and leave the EUSSR they can legally settle here.
Peter, Yes, the British would be crazy to vote to stay inthe EU for many reasons, immigration being one of them.
Those 20,000 will no doubt be sending for their 60,000 ‘relatives’.
Cameron had the option of not being panicked by a staged photo of a dead child, killed by his own father’s greed and stupidity.
The politicians perennial problem – 50% want “something done” and the 50% (which seems to include most commenters on here) want nothing done.
Just be thankful that you do not have to make the decisions or face the conflicting pressures.
Perhaps rather than criticising, many on here, myself included, with strong opinions on many things, could of course decide to bring our Solomonesque wisdom to such as the parish or town councils, who are usually short of members, and see how we deal with the conflict of such as much needed new housing and the NIMBYS!
AGree it would certainly be worse if the LibDims were still in power, it would be all self flagellation and brow beating over the plight of the allegedly ‘desperate’ migrants!
“Well done Dave” ? another broken promise …………………
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-pledges-to-control-and-reduce-immigration
Yesterday morning Thought for Toaday, some female reverend from London giving the Christian Christmas message for the invaders. Starts of with the tale of the seven children drowned whilst escaping from ISIS in a boat which left from Turkey. Tells us that Jesus and his parents were refugees, just like these. Then she says that her church, St James, have acquired a dinghy with life jackets from Lesbos and they are sticking it up in the nave of their church in London, so the Christians can pray under it for the refugees. Personally, I don’t care if it falls on them. But spinning the Christian message for Christmas to fit in with Merkel’s crazy political objectives is a step too far.
Must be completely stupid if she thinks that to escape ISIS you leave from Turkey. If you’re escaping from ISIS Turkey is the destination not the departure lounge.
The latest news about Turkey being the EU resettlement place of choice must be frying her brain today.
Christianity isnt serving us well. It is a universalist religion imported from the Middle East.
The entire discussion about Syrian migrants is politically skewed and ill-informed. I don’t know if anyone here has been following the YouTube videos of Stefan Molyneux, but he’s been discussing the true cost of importing Syrian refugees vs the cost of sending money to resettle them in their own countries.
Turns out that for the same cost as resettling a single migrant (in the US) the UN could resettle 13 or more in their own country! Next time you hear the BBC virtue signalling about importing Syrian migrants, consider that they are effectively promoting the disadvantage of many times more Syrians back in Syria. Importing migrants is a morally indefensible position when all economic factors are brought into play.
For the BBC its not about helping Syrians but undermining the ethnic identity of Britain. They do not even call our country Britain anymore its the UK every time. I am sure theyd love to stop calling us British too!
Can’t be exact on this, but last week someone said they’d heard something somewhere on the so-called BBC whereby the Beeboids were interviewing a Syrian refugee who’d been assigned to live in Bradford. Apparently he really wasn’t best pleased, stating that this wasn’t what he’d expected and he wanted to live among English folk!!
Ah the sweet irony…
Well we don’t him, and certainly not the tribe he was billeted with in Bradford, anywhere near us.
In this country we’ve had:
The Blair Bullshit leading to
The Blair Brit-bashing leading to
The Blair Border removal leading to
The Brown Bankruptcy then Breakdown leading to
The Cameron Climb-Down leading to
The Cameron Catastrophe leading to
The Corbyn Concentration Camps (like in his beloved USSR)
With our so-called “allies” we have:
The Swedish Sell-Out
The Merkel Misey
The Hollande Horror
The Obama Abomination
Amazing that our last three PMs surname initials in order spell out BBC, and if Corbyn does indeed become PM the most recent three Labour PMs would also spell it out. (The previous two were WC which is how the country looked at the end of their time.) The BBC thing is clearly co-incidence but as they all support the disgusting monster it is quite appropriate.
Merkel Misery.
“Fifty-one refugees travelled to Belfast from Lebanon.”
Well, I suppose Belfast is slightly more peaceful than Beirut. For now, anyway.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35118496
Migrant crisis: Dutch town riots over asylum centre plan
Attention all migrant dreamers, far be it for me to say “I told you so”, but, I told you so.
According to the BBC , the Dutch police fired “warning shots”. I wonder if they would have gone as far as killing their own citizens ? Things are not looking good for Europe .
Seems the EU authorities seem prepared to be firmer, quicker, with their own people within their borders than with those often rather aggressive in trying to storm them.
German politicians, at least, have no intention of taking seriously any objections to mass immigration from the “little people”. Heiner Geißler, who used to be a big cog in the CDU machine , yesterday called those objecting to the mass influx of “refugees” as “frech” or “insolent” and that they needed to be “taken on”. The fear of a putative “nazi backlash”, that the “forces of darkness” will be unleashed seems to have robbed the political elite of the ability to think beyond the usual PC platitudes and clichees. How sucessful can the multicultural approach be if any criticism of it could be the spark that ignites an unstoppable conflagration? Heiko Maas, the SPD Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection, is already putting pressure on Facebook and other digital platforms to strictly observe German laws on “Volksverhetzung” or “hate speech” on the grounds that “bad thoughts lead to bad actions”, Maas being the sole arbiter of what are good and bad thoughts”
ID, whether of the left or right the Germans are still, at heart, Fascists.
But no mention of warning shots on the radio 4 news, the news that casual listeners hear.
Synchronicity….wow!
I had only just put down my Farage “Purple Revolution” book, as borrowed from the library( imagine the career of whoever purchased THAT won`t be worth the following!)….and had wondered “whatever became of Merman Von Romper-the Zen Belgian who Nige said had the charisma of a low-grade bank clerk”.
Von Rumpy-the very face of anonymous bureaucratic machinations-and had simply forgotten all about him.
Farage said that he slunk out of view whenever Nigel called by-despite Farage publicly saying sorry for offence caused to all bank clerks he offended.
So-to hear the Hermaniser on the Toaday showtime this morning was -well, like synchronicity dude!
Didn`t hear Nick Robinsons croaky intro to Herpes…but wonder if the words “damp” and “low grade” cropped up-or was he only the greatest United Nations Leader that we never had.
Herman Von Rumpoy
A low grade bank clerk I`m told
The Damp Busters March
May I dedicate my Haiku Ode above to my mentor/senseisan of May 15 …Ukip Haiku…and feel free to nominate it for a Whitbread…or indeed a Greenall Whitley if you like!
He is actually Tweety ” I thought I saw a puddy cat ” from MGMs Loony Tunes .
Hi Chris. UKIP Haiku time!
Freedom, liberty.
Essential ingredients
For prosperity.
Vote Leave.
Surely the common thread in German foreign policy (the Weimar years excepted) is imperialism.
The dream of a German sphere of influence from the Atlantic to the Urals and from the Baltic to Baghdad.
Or as John Buchan had it in Greenmantle, “Germany`s like a scorpion: her stings in her tail, and that tail reaches way down into Asia.”
embolden, Yes Germany should have been partitioned many ways at the end of WW2 between all surrounding countries so that the country would have ceased to exist. The allies made a serious error of judgement which is coming back to haunt them.
Good point Grant.
I`ve often wondered why the Jews weren`t given a sizeable chunk of Bavaria and Austria in which to test run the nation state that had already been mandated after WW1.
Had they been given that-a Semitic sump and safety valve in the heart of Europe to atone for Pales of Settlement, pogroms from York across to Minsk-then maybe the pressure on Israel would have been less.
To be offered Argentina or Madagascar bore no relation to what the Jews were entitled to-and Germany and Austria should have paid for what they did.That said, there`ll be good people on this site who`ll know far more than me…but , as you say, we should have broken the back of that hideous axis fresh after what it did to Gods Chosen People IMHO
chrisH, Well said. The Nazis were not the only anti-semites in Europe and it continued after the war and still does. I am sure that if Germany had not invaded Poland but the Holocaust still happened, no-one would have lifted a finger.
Good to see that the BBC is still sticking to their unbiased stance on with just a little help from their “Left” wing friends… (In BBC Left is said with a silent FAR prefix).
Report from Dresden by the hand-wringing Fergal (get me a tissue) Keane on BBC radio 4 evening so-called-News Saturday 19th December stated several times that PEGIDA was a FAR RIGHT organisation made up of “middle class” Neo Nazis…… REALLY? It’s a actually a peaceful movement against the Islamisation of Europe, but hey, why let the truth get in the way of a good bit of (far left) propaganda?
Keane then went on to wheel out an “injured fighting ISIS” alleged Kurdish refugee to give his “story”…
This is interesting as I follow Peshmerga forces @Kurdistan_dd · on Twitter.
On Dec 3 Pershmerga Forces said:
“RESPECT: 16000 Kurdish WOMEN stayed behind to fight ISIS, While millions of fighting age Syrian/Iraqi men fled to EU”
BBC must REPORT the facts not provide an outlet for the OPINIONS of their politically biased reporters!!!