Peter Oborne in the Telegraph says it all…..
Immigration: Britain’s doors are wide open, and we can’t even talk about it
A wave of Romanians and Bulgarians is heading our way, thanks to the EU’s lack of democracy
In recent years, however, Europe has fallen under the control of a new ruling class that has obtained powers which it has no democratic right to exercise.
Think of it like this: the European Union has abolished politics. Highly susceptible to lobby groups and large corporations, it is now out of reach to political parties and national politicians. This is far more dangerous than has yet been realised. Again and again national leaders are finding themselves accountable for decisions they haven’t made and can’t alter.
[On immigration] Sir Andrew Green of MigrationWatch (disgracefully treated by the BBC as a Right-wing alarmist 10 years ago) has provided more accurate, responsible and truthful predictions than anyone else. He guesses that around 250,000 additional migrants will travel to Britain over the next five years.
Earlier this week, David Blunkett, a former Labour home secretary, warned that their arrival might spark riots.
I wonder whether Mr Blunkett, who was speaking out on the basis of problems with Roma in his Sheffield constituency, was wise to make his inflammatory remarks. Yet, he is a politician. He surely has a duty to speak up for his voters. Nobody in Britain – or any other European country – has voted for this fresh wave of immigration. Nobody asked for it, and almost nobody wants it.
This is the trouble with the European Union. Decisions are made, no one knows where, which have enormous consequences for the lives of ordinary people, and local politicians are helpless.
The new migrants will be hungry for jobs, and are bound to price some British workers out of the market. They will have the right to use our schools and NHS, which are already creaking. They will need housing, and welfare benefits.
This is not a selfish Right-wing cause, as some still assert. The British Labour Party, backed by the trade union movement, fought a great, honourable battle in the last century for dignity of labour and fair pay. This is all being lost, thanks in part to the arrival of waves of cheap labour from the east. Big business benefits hugely, and the affluent middle classes get access to cheap domestic help. But there is a cost to the social fabric, and it is always the poor and powerless who pay the highest price.
The decision will be enforced by anonymous officials and jurists. Without intending to, the European Union is turning into the enemy of democracy.
The ‘enemy of democracy’.…..and the BBC has helped both causes every step of the way…both the EU and immigration….it still does as noted earlier….critics of immigration or the EU are classed as extremists, far right demagogues and xenophobic populists.