We recently had a statement from the British Home Secretary Pritti Patel on the subject of illegal migration and the wholesale abuse of the asylum system. According to the Sunday Express of October 4th Ms Patel said:
“So, I will introduce a new system that is firm and fair. Fair and compassionate towards those who need help; fair by welcoming people through safe and legal routes; but firm because we will stop the abuse of the broken system.
“Firm, because we will stop those who come here illegally making endless legal claims to remain; and firm, because we will expedite the removal of those who have no claim for protection.
“After decades of inaction by successive governments we will address the moral, legal, practical problems with this broken system. Because what exists now is neither firm nor fair.
“And I will bring forward legislation to deliver on that commitment. I will take every necessary step to fix this broken system, amounting to the biggest overhaul of our asylum system in decades.”
Fine words but they are tempered by her other words (that you can read in the Sunday Express article) that are far too conciliatory to those who want to come to Britain and who will most likely be a burden. It’s not something to boast about that we’ve taken more Syrian ‘refugees’ than other advanced nations, it’s a source of shame in my view. It shows that the Government is far more willing to help the Syrians than those Britons who these Syrians are too often preying on with crime and welfare poncing.
If these recent words from Pritti Patel seem familiar,then that’s because they are. According to an article in the Daily Mail from April 29th Ms Patel promised something similar. The Mail article said:
Priti Patel today signalled a fresh crackdown on illegal migrants crossing the English Channel as she also vowed to tackle ‘vexatious’ asylum claims.
The Home Secretary conceded that there are currently higher numbers of people trying to cross the stretch of water.
But she said she is working to agree a scheme with Paris which would allow Britain to return illegal migrants to France after they have come ashore in the UK or if they are picked up while at sea.
It’s the same old, same old words coming out of Ms Patel’s mouth about cracking down on foreign invaders and illegal and excessive legal migration. These are the same or similar words as we’ve heard so many times before from Tory Home Secretaries. Yet despite all these powerful and often repeated words from successive Home Secretaries, the invasion both legal and illegal continues.
Britons voted for the Tories in December in part for two main reasons. The first was that of Brexit and the need for a government who would put into existence the Brexit that Britons voted for in 2016. The second reason is because the vast majority of Britons want to see excessive and inappropriate migration, both legal and illegal curbed and those who have no right to be here removed. The jury is out on the first reason, Brexit, but as for the second reason, immigration, it’s looking increasingly likely that the Tories have failed Britons again when it comes to this issue.
I used to be an admirer of Pritti Patel since I saw her at a pro-small spending government rally in Westminster quite a few years back. I now no longer hold her in the same level of esteem. She is yet another failed Tory Home Secretary who promises much with regards to immigration but who has delivered very very little. I no longer trust Pritti Patel on the subject of immigration and after being let down so many times on this issue by her party, I no longer trust the Tories themselves to curb excessive immigration. No matter what the Tories say about immigration next time at the next General Election I will see these words for what they are, which are empty ones, cynically deployed in order to motivate the traditional Tory base and no longer take their proffered bait. Instead I will vote for one of the new alternative parties of the centre right, parties that may, unlike the Tories, deal not just in words, but in actions.
Like you, I am very disappointment with Mrs Patel. Could it be that she is being thwarted by a combination of some in the cabinet and also the Home Office. Do not forget that she was accused of bullying, could it be that she is taking a softer line which will take longer.
I hope that she has success with her aims and protects the country
I’d like to have some hope for her, but I along with many others, have been let down too many times by Tory promises to curb excessive and inappropriate migration to have too much hope. If she’s caved into the possibly specious claims of bullying then that shows that she is weak. Her statements also are far too equivocal when it comes to the issue of ‘refugees’. I noted that she seems rather too concerned about the safety of these ‘refugees’ when she should be more concerned about protecting Britons, of all races and faiths I need to state, from the depredations of these ‘refugees’.
Patel is same as all her Home Secretary predecessors since 1990 – strong words, no action. She’s another Blairite ‘rubbing our faces in multi-culti’
Very easy to stop the crossings – refuse to accept from French navy by blocking with towed barrage. Plenty of idle huge cruise ships available. We did it in WWII with a UK-Norway barage
“It’s not something to boast about that we’ve taken more Syrian ‘refugees’ than other advanced nations, it’s a source of shame in my view.”
I quite agree and the reason its shameful is that almost all of those refugees are Muslim, we’ve taken scarcely a single Christian, yet it is they (along with the Yazidi) who have suffered far, far worse.
It seems to me that not being “Islamophobic” trumps all other considerations including basic humanity.
The irony is that no matter how Islamophilic a bunch of Kaffirs is, the Muslims will never become “kaffarophilic”, all we are (perhaps) doing is “feeding the crocodile”.