Friday, October 18, 2002

The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf, has vowed to uphold the human rights of illegal immigrants, asylum seekers and terrorists alike and fight for their right to stay in Britain. He intends to do this even if he has to defy parliament and public opinion. Very noble of him.
As we know, public opinion doesn’t count for much in Britain. We have a crazy system that rewards terrorists with government posts (think Sinn Fein) and demands that a hard pressed and under funded police force to foot the bill for a refugee camp burnt down by its (mostly illegal) occupants. Am I the only one who believes this is pure madness? I don’t think so.
At the risk of sounding unfashionably politically incorrect I suggest the following:

That individuals possessing terrorist tendencies, who are seeking asylum of a country whose way of life they vociferously despise, should be given the boot without leave to appeal. Anyone allowed into Britain who begins to preach hatred against the British people should also be immediately deported.

Refugees from war zones should be given temporary asylum but encouraged to return home as soon as their countries have been stabilised. Aid should come from an international fund, especially from countries who have helped to bomb or terrorise these people out of their homes. And I'm not talking parachuted peanut butter and other questionable comestibles.

People seeking asylum for economic reasons should be told to get lost. Our creaking social security system can barely cope with our own poor and needy along with genuine asylum seekers so we don’t need a large influx of foreign scroungers to sink the boat thank you very much.

Innocent individuals and families who are genuinely fleeing for their lives should be given priority to have their cases heard.

Rich immigrants who make political donations or bribe members of HM government to gain British passports can f*ck off. Being a rich, corrupt bastard with friends in high places doesn’t mean the ordinary Brit in the street wants the like soiling our shores. We have enough home spun crooks of our own if you don’t mind.

The British people are generous when it comes to digging into their pockets to help those in need. But we are a small country with a big population. We cannot possibly fit a large percentage of the world’s dispossessed and dissatisfied into what amounts to a two-up-two-down terraced house. Anyone forcing entry and demanding permanent lodgings for no good reason will get the door slammed firmly in their faces. If Lord Woolf and his rampant, politically correct public servant cronies don’t like what public opinion thinks of them then perhaps they shouldn’t be taking their salaries from public coffers.