Dedworth
17th January 2013, 10:36
Very good piece from the Express with some chilling home truths
The forces of the establishment are desperately rallying in defence of the miserable European project. Panicked by the growing hostility of the British public towards the EU, politicians, are now lining up to warn us of the supposed dire consequences if we try to regain our freedom from Brussels.
Jobs will be lost, trade will suffer and Britain's global influence will be diminished, they keep telling us.
David Cameron, in advance of his big set-piece speech on Europe tomorrow, has led this scaremongering, arguing that it would be "madness" to leave the EU. Meanwhile Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has shown his contempt for democracy by condemning the idea of a referendum on the EU, which he says would have "a chilling effect on the economy".
Yet the real nightmare lies, not in Britain's exit but in our continued membership of the EU. For there is one crucial issue that puts into perspective all the hollow rhetoric about the economic advantages of staying in the EU. Claims of theoretical future prosperity pale beside the colossal immigration disaster that is about to be inflicted on Britain.
From the end of this year, citizens of Bulgaria and Romania, two of Europe's most poverty-stricken countries, will have the right to settle in Britain under EU plans to demolish all borders within its jurisdiction.
In practice, this means that 29 million Bulgarians and Romanians will have access, not only to the British labour market but also to a complete raft of welfare benefits.
IT WILL be a catastrophe for our country. The fabric of Britain has already been torn apart in recent years through uncontrolled immigration running at 600,000 arrivals every year. Now, at a time of austerity, the influx from eastern Europe will impose an intolerable new burden on our civic infrastructure.
The welfare bill, already unaffordable at £209 billion, will increase. Schools and hospitals will be overstretched, housing shortages will worsen and dole queues will lengthen as employment opportunities diminish for Britons.
Not that the European Union will care about any of this. All that matters to them is the triumph of their doctrine of European integration. Mass immigration and the obliteration of borders are two key weapons in their remorseless campaign to wipe out the traditional concept of nationhood across Europe, replacing it with the federal superstate. In the mindset of the EU fanatics, the vast army of Bulgarians and Romanians arriving here to lay siege to our public services will be another welcome step towards the abolition of Britain.
The numbers will undoubtedly be huge, whatever the EU's cheerleaders pretend. One prediction, made by the think tank Open Europe, is that 450,000 Romanians and 170,000 Bulgarians will come, but the real figure could be much higher. When eight former Communistic bloc countries from eastern Europe joined the EU in 2004, the Labour Government blithely reassured us that only 13,000 would settle here.
That forecast was an act of spectacular deceit, so characteristic of pro-EU, pro-immigration propaganda. In fact, according to the 2011 census, at least 1,114,368 eastern Europeans are now living here.
The influx from Bulgaria and Romania is likely to dwarf anything seen before, simply because the standard of living is so much lower than in Britain. The average net monthly salary in Romania is just £272 per month, while the minimum wage is only £158 per month for a 42-hour week. Child benefit is just £8 a month for any offspring older than two years. Compared to this impoverishment, the generosity of our own welfare system will seem like fabulous riches. Many Bulgarians and Romanians are looking forward to the prospect of sponging off the taxpayer. "I would like to go to Britain because I support Manchester United. There we will get our housing and benefits paid," says one jobless father from So-fia, the Bulgarian capital.
Many Romanians and Bulgarians have already proved eager to exploit the laxity of the British state. In one notorious case, Firuta Vasile, a Romanian Big Issue seller was awarded benefits worth over £28,0000-a-year, far more than average earnings, after a legal battle in the courts. Others have resorted to criminality. Lavania Olzamu from north London used her cover as campaigner for the rights of gypsies to mastermind a £2.7 million benefits racket in which she and her boyfriend made a fortune from handling fraudulent claims from migrants.
Britain is a magnet for migrant scroungers and criminal gangs. Our once well-ordered society is now scarred by benefit tourism, organised thieving, and the sex trade, much of it carried out by eastern Europeans. The police estimate that 90 per cent of cashpoint robberies in London are perpetrated by Romanians.
Speaking of Romanians sleeping rough, the Westminster City Councillor Nickie Aiken said: "We give them tickets back to Romania but it is like a revolving door. They come here because we have a reputation of providing benefits and accommodation."
This problem will become much worse once all restrictions are lifted on the movement of Bulgarians and Romanians. It is madness to think that we have any responsibility towards these people. That is why, whatever the protests of Cameron and the establishment, we have to seize back control of our borders and get out of the EU.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/371398/And-now-we-must-expect-millions-more-immigrants/
The forces of the establishment are desperately rallying in defence of the miserable European project. Panicked by the growing hostility of the British public towards the EU, politicians, are now lining up to warn us of the supposed dire consequences if we try to regain our freedom from Brussels.
Jobs will be lost, trade will suffer and Britain's global influence will be diminished, they keep telling us.
David Cameron, in advance of his big set-piece speech on Europe tomorrow, has led this scaremongering, arguing that it would be "madness" to leave the EU. Meanwhile Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has shown his contempt for democracy by condemning the idea of a referendum on the EU, which he says would have "a chilling effect on the economy".
Yet the real nightmare lies, not in Britain's exit but in our continued membership of the EU. For there is one crucial issue that puts into perspective all the hollow rhetoric about the economic advantages of staying in the EU. Claims of theoretical future prosperity pale beside the colossal immigration disaster that is about to be inflicted on Britain.
From the end of this year, citizens of Bulgaria and Romania, two of Europe's most poverty-stricken countries, will have the right to settle in Britain under EU plans to demolish all borders within its jurisdiction.
In practice, this means that 29 million Bulgarians and Romanians will have access, not only to the British labour market but also to a complete raft of welfare benefits.
IT WILL be a catastrophe for our country. The fabric of Britain has already been torn apart in recent years through uncontrolled immigration running at 600,000 arrivals every year. Now, at a time of austerity, the influx from eastern Europe will impose an intolerable new burden on our civic infrastructure.
The welfare bill, already unaffordable at £209 billion, will increase. Schools and hospitals will be overstretched, housing shortages will worsen and dole queues will lengthen as employment opportunities diminish for Britons.
Not that the European Union will care about any of this. All that matters to them is the triumph of their doctrine of European integration. Mass immigration and the obliteration of borders are two key weapons in their remorseless campaign to wipe out the traditional concept of nationhood across Europe, replacing it with the federal superstate. In the mindset of the EU fanatics, the vast army of Bulgarians and Romanians arriving here to lay siege to our public services will be another welcome step towards the abolition of Britain.
The numbers will undoubtedly be huge, whatever the EU's cheerleaders pretend. One prediction, made by the think tank Open Europe, is that 450,000 Romanians and 170,000 Bulgarians will come, but the real figure could be much higher. When eight former Communistic bloc countries from eastern Europe joined the EU in 2004, the Labour Government blithely reassured us that only 13,000 would settle here.
That forecast was an act of spectacular deceit, so characteristic of pro-EU, pro-immigration propaganda. In fact, according to the 2011 census, at least 1,114,368 eastern Europeans are now living here.
The influx from Bulgaria and Romania is likely to dwarf anything seen before, simply because the standard of living is so much lower than in Britain. The average net monthly salary in Romania is just £272 per month, while the minimum wage is only £158 per month for a 42-hour week. Child benefit is just £8 a month for any offspring older than two years. Compared to this impoverishment, the generosity of our own welfare system will seem like fabulous riches. Many Bulgarians and Romanians are looking forward to the prospect of sponging off the taxpayer. "I would like to go to Britain because I support Manchester United. There we will get our housing and benefits paid," says one jobless father from So-fia, the Bulgarian capital.
Many Romanians and Bulgarians have already proved eager to exploit the laxity of the British state. In one notorious case, Firuta Vasile, a Romanian Big Issue seller was awarded benefits worth over £28,0000-a-year, far more than average earnings, after a legal battle in the courts. Others have resorted to criminality. Lavania Olzamu from north London used her cover as campaigner for the rights of gypsies to mastermind a £2.7 million benefits racket in which she and her boyfriend made a fortune from handling fraudulent claims from migrants.
Britain is a magnet for migrant scroungers and criminal gangs. Our once well-ordered society is now scarred by benefit tourism, organised thieving, and the sex trade, much of it carried out by eastern Europeans. The police estimate that 90 per cent of cashpoint robberies in London are perpetrated by Romanians.
Speaking of Romanians sleeping rough, the Westminster City Councillor Nickie Aiken said: "We give them tickets back to Romania but it is like a revolving door. They come here because we have a reputation of providing benefits and accommodation."
This problem will become much worse once all restrictions are lifted on the movement of Bulgarians and Romanians. It is madness to think that we have any responsibility towards these people. That is why, whatever the protests of Cameron and the establishment, we have to seize back control of our borders and get out of the EU.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/371398/And-now-we-must-expect-millions-more-immigrants/