THE SUREST SIGN THAT there is an election in the offing is for a party leader (supposedly of the Right) to raise the issue of mass immigration. This morning, David Cameron addressed his party faithful with a full frontal attack on mass immigration; linking it to welfare benefits, and accusing the last Labour government of actively encouraging the influx of over 2 million migrants to fill the vacancies in those sectors of the economy where British workers refused to go; preferring to stay idle on welfare – a situation the last government did little to change: but a state of affairs Cameron’s speech sought to highlight in order to damage Labour.
Now Cameron’s Business Secretary, Vince Cable has responded to his leaders speech, describing it as “unwise” and in danger of harvesting support for extremist groups. Cable has, like many business leaders, proposed no limit on immigration, as well as supporting an amnesty.
Cameron talked a great deal of sense, but, as one ordinary citizen said when interviewed on Sky this morning “he’s [Cameron] 20 years too late…”. The horse has bolted; the genie is out of the bottle. Now what our leader proposes is too little too late. No-one, not even in his own party, believes that the problem of immigration can be resolved satisfactorily to the future harmony of our society. By the middle of this century this small island will be home to some 70 million people living in separate communities; speaking in over a 100 different tongues and each segregating their own cultures from the other. For this is the multicultural ideal; an ideal constructed on liberal tolerance, and a belief in separate identities. A modern Babel where many cultures lead separate lives on a somewhat congested island - cultures that defy integration because it runs contrary to the ideology of Multiculturalism.
Immigration, as a rhetorical force will once more go into hiding once the May elections are complete. On May 6th Cameron will decide whether raising the issue did his party any good. If the Conservatives (as opposed to the Coalition) make generous gains, he will feel vindicated by today’s address.
HOWEVER, VINCE CABLE need not worry. The Conservatives will not make any gains as a result of this issue. They will not do so, simply because the electorate have been caught out once too often in the past by Conservative rhetoric on this issue, and besides, there is an alternative which those concerned with immigration can turn to and rely upon.
Both the BNP and the EDL are the bête noire of immigration. The former of these two are indeed racists who would, given the chance, replicate Nazism’s attraction for force in dealing with immigrants. The EDL, on the other hand, are a nationalist party who see Islam as the greatest threat to this country, and must be viewed (for now at least) in a different light to the BNP. The EDL expresses a major concern that overrides even that of immigration and attracts many none-Islamic minorities to its cause. For the medieval theology of Islam is, as far as I have been able to judge, the EDL’s modus operandi. If I am wrong time will tell.
The only party of the Right that serves the needs of conservatism in this country today are UKIP. Once seen as a single issue party, UKIP are slowly attracting conservatives away from Cameron’s (conservative Light) all things to all people party. Today British Conservatism’s only outlet are UKIP.
At the moment it is seen as a one issue party – but what an issue! For the very soul of nationhood is UKIP’s raison d’être. UKIP are however starting to transplant from the Conservative party many of its once proud values by absorbing many of its one time supporters; while, on a lesser scale, the party also attracts many traditional working class Labour supporters.
Of course it may amount to nothing: especially if Cameron turns out to be a mere aberration, whose successor returns the once great party to its traditional roots.
FUTURE IMMIGRATION CAN BE stopped. However those currently residing in this country legally cannot be removed unless you turn the problem over to the BNP, whose methods are brutal and racist.
I am afraid that we have made our bed (or the Labour Party has made it for us) and now we must lose much sleep in finding comfort with the results. At least, if it had been made clear to those invited by Labour to live among us, that they should integrate and obey our laws and customs, or return home to the customs and culture they left behind and feel most at home with, then, perhaps, we would not be swamped today.
Now, the main thing to do is to abandon Multiculturalism and make it clear to other cultures that they fully integrate within the mother culture, or return, whether the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) agree or not, to the land where their customs and culture are practiced; and where, in many instances, other cultures are not tolerated in any true meaning of the word, without any comment from the ECHR.
The only way forward for this country is to do in part what Cameron is seeking to do, by making the welfare state more befitting its original purpose of acting as a safety net when Capitalism limits its capacity through recession. Those who fought for and introduced the welfare state saw it as a temporary measure while the economy once more found its feet. But the post war years have seen permanence introduced to the system of welfare.
THIS COUNTRY CANNOT for long remain at peace with itself if it remains under the yolk of Multiculturalism. For such an ideology is by its very nature divisive and violent. The great mistake of the ideology’s founding fathers was to assume that immigration was a black and white issue. But Multiculturalism provides ample reward for many colours whose cultures are in political disagreement with each other, like India and Pakistan, to ferment social unrest.
Perhaps the most significant of the founding fathers of the Multicultural ideology was one Roy Jenkins, who saw it as a means of somehow combating what he thought to be the exhibitionism of Enoch Powell.
However, it appears that Jenkins himself felt, toward the end of his life, that the concept had, like that of other human creations, proved fallible.
There is no point today in seeking to return home immigrant families who have been with us for generations. To do so would require methods of repatriation that would boarder on fascist. But every culture, whether they have resided with us over the past three days or the past three decades, should be given the opportunity to return to their own country, or stay and obey the laws and customs of the British culture. If they cannot make such a transition, then, and only then should they be sent back to whatever country their culture is perfectly assimilated with.
Immigration is to important for a politician to use as a means of either improving or retaining power for either himself or his party. David Cameron has merely scratched the surface on the issue of immigration.
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