The illegal immigrants are coming to the U.K. to obtain economic benefit and the pretence of suggesting this flood is of families fleeing oppression is wrong. The majority of people of the U.K. want less migrants illegal or legal and the U.K. government needs to get on with the necessary means especially dealing with so called refugees. The whole system needs changing with no individual allowed permanent residence if they arrived illegally.
Fraser Bailey
3 years ago
‘And if there’s one key insight that Trump has over his rivals, it’s that the social class that comprises Harvard MBAs are generally terrible at their jobs.’
So true, so true.
Dave H
3 years ago
> frozen in internet ammonite
Maybe change to carbonite? “Ammonite” is not a rock but a prehistoric animal.
jim payne
3 years ago
I have on Unherd several times described myself as a Vlad the Impaler socialist. Human Rights types may scream at me for suggesting, Eunuchs have no sexual desires/urges. SO! Why can’t these people be surgically castrated?
Simon Latham
3 years ago
The 4000 people, mainly young men, are in addition to something in the order of half a million immigrants already here illegally (it is a disgrace that neither the Government nor the ONS can accurately number the people in this country). That is vastly in excess of the numbers that accompanied William the Conqueror at his invasion. Farage calls this one better than Bloodworth. We are a small island and more densely populated than any comparable European Country – more so than Germany, over twice as much as France and Turkey and three times as much as Spain. Large scale immigration is destabilizing and unpopular, it is time to tackle a problem another age would have referred to as an invasion. We must do the best with the many disparate elements that comprise the modern UK and continue to contribute to the support of refugees in other countries but refuse to accept an unending influx of people when other countries have more available living space.
Peter KE
3 years ago
Our judicial system fails again and the writer wrings her hands in not wanting to confront that real change is needed. We have murders, peadophiles, terrorists and rapist all go under punished, does not one of our legislators or judiciary have the clarity of thought that the experiment of rehabilitation is a failure and we need to reduce our prison population in a more drastic way.
And if there’s one key insight that Trump has over his rivals, it’s that the social class that comprises Harvard MBAs are generally terrible at their jobs.
This category of insight is the most important thing to understand about twenty-first century Western civilisation.
Rich Lewis
3 years ago
‘And if there’s one key insight that Trump has over his rivals, it’s that the social class that comprises Harvard MBAs are generally terrible at their jobs.’
Closest thing to “truth” I’ve seen on the internets today. The best “meme masters” (and other social media noise) was/is made by the outsiders, the fringe friends, class clowns…even the random person with a moment of brilliance. NOT the MBA kids. There’s no business plan or masters degree of meme that creates outside the lines.
Tim Masters
3 years ago
I read as far as the final sentence of the second paragraph where I was told that these people are fleeing from armed conflict. They’re obviously not doing any such thing as they’ve come from France. Their sole goal is to enter the country illegally and take illegal advantage of its health system, education and economy. The fact that they don’t apply to come here legally is evidence enough that they are not going to benefit any of us. They are neither wanted nor needed here.
Andrew M
3 years ago
I’ve not much time for them either. Far less than Giles. So I haven’t bothered to read beyond the first paragraph.
Alex Camm
3 years ago
Not sure castration automatically reduces ‘feelings’. There are no simple answers to this.
Dougie Undersub
3 years ago
Bloodworth falls at the first hurdle through his inconsistent and inaccurate use of the words refugee, migrant and asylum seeker. The great majority of those illegally crossing the Channel are young males – economic migrants. A few are terrorists. For a more informed account of who is coming here and why, read: https://twitter.com/_edward…
robert scheetz
3 years ago
To quote one of our recent war criminals, and great moralist, Gen. Colin Powell: “It’s Pottery Barn rules: ‘You broke it, you own it’.” Try as you may to confound the issue, there’s no escape; Imperial blowback, ancient and recent, is the at the root.
So the moral obligation is patent; only the degrees are debatable. And here it is plain the imperial class bares vastly the largest share. Which, in a true and just republic would require it be utterly discredited, displaced, and appropriated for reparations.
Niels Georg Bach
3 years ago
Well some of them will end up working in third world sweatshops in the UK, or as lumpenproletarian small time crooks. Wellcome.
The illegal immigrants are coming to the U.K. to obtain economic benefit and the pretence of suggesting this flood is of families fleeing oppression is wrong. The majority of people of the U.K. want less migrants illegal or legal and the U.K. government needs to get on with the necessary means especially dealing with so called refugees. The whole system needs changing with no individual allowed permanent residence if they arrived illegally.
‘And if there’s one key insight that Trump has over his rivals, it’s that the social class that comprises Harvard MBAs are generally terrible at their jobs.’
So true, so true.
> frozen in internet ammonite
Maybe change to carbonite? “Ammonite” is not a rock but a prehistoric animal.
I have on Unherd several times described myself as a Vlad the Impaler socialist. Human Rights types may scream at me for suggesting, Eunuchs have no sexual desires/urges. SO! Why can’t these people be surgically castrated?
The 4000 people, mainly young men, are in addition to something in the order of half a million immigrants already here illegally (it is a disgrace that neither the Government nor the ONS can accurately number the people in this country). That is vastly in excess of the numbers that accompanied William the Conqueror at his invasion. Farage calls this one better than Bloodworth. We are a small island and more densely populated than any comparable European Country – more so than Germany, over twice as much as France and Turkey and three times as much as Spain. Large scale immigration is destabilizing and unpopular, it is time to tackle a problem another age would have referred to as an invasion. We must do the best with the many disparate elements that comprise the modern UK and continue to contribute to the support of refugees in other countries but refuse to accept an unending influx of people when other countries have more available living space.
Our judicial system fails again and the writer wrings her hands in not wanting to confront that real change is needed. We have murders, peadophiles, terrorists and rapist all go under punished, does not one of our legislators or judiciary have the clarity of thought that the experiment of rehabilitation is a failure and we need to reduce our prison population in a more drastic way.
How would you do that?
This category of insight is the most important thing to understand about twenty-first century Western civilisation.
‘And if there’s one key insight that Trump has over his rivals, it’s that the social class that comprises Harvard MBAs are generally terrible at their jobs.’
Closest thing to “truth” I’ve seen on the internets today. The best “meme masters” (and other social media noise) was/is made by the outsiders, the fringe friends, class clowns…even the random person with a moment of brilliance. NOT the MBA kids. There’s no business plan or masters degree of meme that creates outside the lines.
I read as far as the final sentence of the second paragraph where I was told that these people are fleeing from armed conflict. They’re obviously not doing any such thing as they’ve come from France. Their sole goal is to enter the country illegally and take illegal advantage of its health system, education and economy. The fact that they don’t apply to come here legally is evidence enough that they are not going to benefit any of us. They are neither wanted nor needed here.
I’ve not much time for them either. Far less than Giles. So I haven’t bothered to read beyond the first paragraph.
Not sure castration automatically reduces ‘feelings’.
There are no simple answers to this.
Bloodworth falls at the first hurdle through his inconsistent and inaccurate use of the words refugee, migrant and asylum seeker. The great majority of those illegally crossing the Channel are young males – economic migrants. A few are terrorists.
For a more informed account of who is coming here and why, read: https://twitter.com/_edward…
To quote one of our recent war criminals, and great moralist, Gen. Colin Powell: “It’s Pottery Barn rules: ‘You broke it, you own it’.” Try as you may to confound the issue, there’s no escape; Imperial blowback, ancient and recent, is the at the root.
So the moral obligation is patent; only the degrees are debatable. And here it is plain the imperial class bares vastly the largest share. Which, in a true and just republic would require it be utterly discredited, displaced, and appropriated for reparations.
Well some of them will end up working in third world sweatshops in the UK, or as lumpenproletarian small time crooks. Wellcome.