By Max Musson:
When politicians make stupid pronouncements such as that made yesterday by Labour Party leadership contestant and current Shadow Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, the least they could do is offer to foot the bill for the largess they so clearly wish to be seen doling-out!
An old acquaintance of mine many years ago, once said that if we are to be forced by liberals and Marxists to have mass immigration into Britain, there ought to be an ‘Immigration Tax’ levied solely on those people who are in favour of such immigration. The tax would be to cover the costs of the housing, welfare, health and educational benefits needed by the immigrants allowed in, and anyone who objects to mass immigration would be free of such a tax. Ignoring the cultural and social implications of non-White immigration, this would of course be a thoroughly sensible suggestion, and anyone advocating Third World aid for example, could also have a similar additional tax levied upon them also, so that only those in favour of Third World aid would have to pay for it.
One wonders how much longer the likes of Yvette Cooper would be calling for Britain to take in more immigrants and for us to do more overseas, if it was only her and the rest of the liberal-Marxists elite who were paying for it, and if it was to be in their exclusive neighbourhoods that the immigrants would be housed?
In a speech to the Centre for European Reform in London, Yvette Cooper said of the immigrant invasion of Southern Europe: “This has become a humanitarian crisis on a scale we have not seen on our continent since the Second World War. Yet we seem paralysed to respond.
“And it’s not just us. All Europe is struggling to respond. We can’t carry on like this. It’s immoral, it’s cowardly and it’s not the British way.
“We have to step up to the plate. This has become a test not just of Europe’s values, but also of the EU’s resilience and ability to respond, and so far our continent has been found still wanting”.
Ms Cooper called upon politicians of all parties to support a ‘national mission’ to change attitudes, end the fear of the ‘politics of immigration’.
We are indeed facing a humanitarian crisis on a scale not seen since the Second World War, but it is we Europeans who are becoming the victims of determined people who want what we have and who are prepared to risk their lives and break our laws in order to get it, and use force if necessary.
Some claim to be ‘fleeing’ tyrannical regimes in their homelands, however it is evident that no-one is stopping them from leaving their homelands. They have simply packed up all the belongings they can carry and have deserted their homelands by whatever means are at their disposal.
Some claim to be escaping poverty, yet who is responsible for the lack of wealth in their homelands? Who is it that is responsible for the conditions of poverty in which they lived?
There is the automatic assumption on the part of people like Yvette Cooper, that we must of course let these poor people share in the relative wealth that we have, an assumption predicated on the false notion that we have done nothing to justify our relatively greater wealth, just as the immigrants have done nothing to justify their poverty, but this is not so!
Our forebears began during the last Ice Age, to occupy an ice bound wilderness at a time when, in common with the peoples of the rest of the world, we had a stone tool technology and a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. There was in civilizational terms a ‘level playing-field’ at that time. In the intervening 35,000 years, we have created a modern high technology society and have evolved the capacity to feed ourselves, whereas the peoples of Africa and much of Asia have not. Therefore, when the question is asked whether we as a people have conducted our lives in a way that justifies the higher standard of living that we have, the answer should be a resounding ‘yes’!
Furthermore, when the question is asked whether the immigrants currently invading Southern Europe are as a people responsible for the poverty and the tyranny to be found in their homelands, the answer should also be a resounding ‘yes’!
There is no moral onus upon us to surrender the benefits of European citizenship to people who simply demand it and who demonstrate that they are willing to use deception and/or force in order to extort the benefits of European citizenship from us. And let us make no bones about it, when people force their way into our country and demand to have the benefits of citizenship, they are morally little different to the mugger who stops his victim in the street and who uses intimidation and the threat of violence to rifle through his victims pockets, taking what he wants.
The situation regarding immigration has become a ‘crisis’, but not because of the way in which the peoples of Europe have responded. It has become a crisis because people who might in different times have queued and gone through the appropriate channels in order immigrate into Europe have decided to smuggle themselves past our boarder controls or to physically break through them. In terms of the methods used, they have made the transition from being legal immigrants to become invaders.
Despite the fact that some employers become richer by employing migrants and by doing so are able to depress wages, it should be clearly understood that mass immigration into Europe and into Britain makes each of us poorer on average monetarily and because of the racial, cultural and religious differences, our lives are made increasingly dangerous, especially when the immigrants concerned are drawn from peoples among whom violence is too readily resorted to when they don’t get their own way.
Her pronouncements yesterday demonstrate that Yvette Cooper is not a fit person to lead our nation and we must hope that she never gets the chance.
By Max Musson © 2015
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* NB: Obviously not Yvette Cooper’s actual words, but based on an old nursery rhyme and the kind of childish nonsense one might expect of her.
Dan England
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Why we Nationalists take any notice of people like that is beyond me, the vast majority of our fellow Countrymen can see what is happening, the thing is they are just too slow or have no one to set an example that they might follow.
What we need is a Mosley type of character but without the fascism, of course that would be like asking for a multi billionair to finance the movement.
There is the alternative which could be a Nationalist Radio or TV Station something like The UK Column, but I can see what the reaction would be from people on this site, everyone is addicted to moaning here and very little action.
Having been around now for almost eighty years and seen almost every kind of diverse and perverted mindset, nothing surprises me anymore, Ms Cooper is just one of those childish immature Idiots that infest the left.
Max Musson
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I’m sorry that you feel this website is dominated by people who moan, but what you need to do is read the articles highlighted in the ‘About us’ section of this website. Once you’ve done that, I look forward to receiving your email.
B.A
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Advocating such liberalism is easy, like pushing on an open door. You don’t have to think very hard about anything at all, certainly not the long term consequences of things.
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For them, it is all about the ‘here and now’ and emotional senses of ‘reward’ for being ‘compassionate’ and ‘welcoming’. (It is the same with the endless raft of adverts asking us to give “Just £2 a month” to help little “Edward” in the Sudan or whatever).
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The future? Well, that can all wait for another time as far as these people are concerned.
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It will all “work out in the end” – if only they just keep doing what they can to be ‘tolerant’, ‘nice’ and ‘change perceptions’, remove borders, barriers, reduce ‘wealth inequality’ (etc) things will just be peachy. There is just “so much work to be done” before they “get there”, to some future utopia they imagine.
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Friends on social media can have a bad habit of showing liberal originating campaigns with little old women and young children being beaten back with smoke bombs and truncheons – and subsequently ‘thumbing up’ these campaigns to let people in.
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They do not see, or want to see, the other side of the picture. They can just pass it around to look caring and kind, to congratulate themselves on their ‘open minded’ compassion. “Look at me everybody! I care! Pass it on {or you are one of those inhumane people!}”. The trouble is, they are so open minded that their brains seem to have fallen out.
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They don’t have to take any courageous stands. They can just glide through life as a paragon of virtue, one little piece at a time, ignoring those consequences of their actions – or simply blaming the consequences (yet again) on some mystical ‘Conservative’ or ‘right wing’ dominance that liberals still laughably seem to believe rages through the established order.
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The solution to all their created problems seems to be, of course, yet more liberalism. Which is no doubt one reason as to why we seem be in this position, where what would have once been considered the stuff of ‘far fetched’ and ‘scaremongering’ dystopia novels by ‘extremists’, has actually come to pass….and is only just starting.
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Yvette Cooper is hardly saying anything bold, edgy or risky. She is just playing the typical ‘holier than thou’ morally self righteous ticket, which of course has the added bonus to her election campaign (as she gambles away the future of her own people – not that she would ever see people that way!).
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Is there anybody at all, in the “mainstream”, arguing any kind of articulate rebuff to these people that would shame them? Something that would slice through the pathological altruism and lay the blame squarely on their shoulders as the drivers for this?
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For example, there’s general people smuggling, sex trafficking, black market slavery, deaths at sea and the deserts, the living conditions at camps, the perilous journeys in crates, under cars, the splitting up families, and so on…. so why the hell are we who oppose this invasion on the back foot against all these things? We are not driving it – the open borders advocates are!
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It seems we can talk till we are blue in the face about overcrowding, schools, hospitals, wages, which are all true and good enough reasons, yet for many it still seems “cold hearted” and “selfish”. I think we need to be able to command the other side to this too, to take the battering club out the hands of our opponents.
Byrhtnoth
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A great post from B.A. Perhaps he should join Western Spring as a regular correspondent. His comment about the likes of Yvette Cooper ‘pushing on an open door’ is perceptive. There is an institutional and cultural bias in favor of open borders and humanitarianism manifested as making Britain into a haven which stifles public opposition to the invasion and allows the Yvette Coopers of this world to occupy the center stage on this issue. Thus there is no public figure prepared to stick their neck out and take a position on this issue that is ‘bold, edgy or risky’. This bias also inhibits public demonstrations of opposition to the invasion thus enabling the open borders crowd to get all the media attention and impose their will on the majority. In one of his articles Max pointed out that an occupation of the Channel Tunnel by nationalist protesting at the invasion would be treated more harshly than direct action by other groups and would probably result in prison sentences all round. I have seen this double standard in action when a demonstration against the migrant invasion in Croatia was broken up the police.
Michael Woodbridge
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We must remember that by helping asylum seekers we’re sacrificing the future welfare of our own progeny. Our natural altruism evolved with us to protect our children and elderly folk through such institutions as the Welfare State. Those who aren’t part of our White/Aryan family only see Northern Europe as a “milch cow” to be exploited.
Pured1989
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Yes, and there’s this too:
London Forum – 1 June 2015 – Dr James Lewthwaite – ‘The Liberal Mind – a suitable case for analysis’: the liberal mind’s characteristics: – its utter selfishness masquerading as extreme individualism; it’s short-termism; its ludicrous expectations; its placing of personal emotion as supreme arbiter of all questions; its childish spoilt-brat cum hedonistic teenager ‘the world as a kindergarten outlook’ on life; its temper tantrums; its slavish worship of The Money Power, international finance, free trade and internationalism generally – providing they all continue to supply and bribe it with pleasure, leisure, baubles and gewgaws; its total lack of empathy; and finally, its vindictive viciousness verging on the psychopathic towards anyone who dares not to share its own illusions and who thus threatens to wake it up from its self-imposed dream sleep.
Richard James
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Cooper sees future Labour supporters .
heechee
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As Ms Cooper is a member of the Party that spread much of the carnage and lawlessness now rampant across the Middle east with their warmongering ways shouldn’t she be apologising to them personally?
Not that too many are even true asylum seekers anyway, and that is before the real ones ignore claiming asylum the first safe nation and so become nothing more than economic migrants.
Do the world a favour Ms Cooper emigrate to the Middle East?North Africa and work to repair the damage done by people like yourself! Better still grab a gun and go fight ISIS, they are a product of your lousy philosophy.
TiglathUK
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Mrs Cooper-Balls heartily supported her hero, Bomber-Blair and voted enthusiastically to invade Iraq, wreck that country and cruelly murder Sadaam –who actually tolerated a million Christians, and even had one as his Deputy! Most have since been killed or fled.
That Marxist witch has the blood of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis on her hands. Let her put up 10 INVADERS in her own, no doubt spacious homes! And then she should fly to Sicily to sympathize with the relatives of the innocent elderly Italian couple hacked to death and thrown over their balcony, by an ‘Asylum-Seeker’ from the Ivory Coast when they gently resisted the Negro-beast’s burglary.
frederickdixon
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A week or so ago we were being asked to wring our consciences over Africans pouring across the Med into Italy, now the focus has switched momentarily to the Syrians swarming through the Balkans into Austria and Hungary.
A letter in todays Daily Telegraph reminded us of the civil war in the Lebanon some years ago when hundreds of thousands of Lebanese refugees made their way to prosperous and stable Arab countries in the region, such as Saudi and the Gulf States. When the Lebanon settled down, the refugees went home. Why, the writer wondered, do not today’s Syrians seek refuge in these fellow Arab countries, far more suitable for them in every way than the countries of Europe? The fact that they do not appear to have done so should immediately disqualify them from any right to claim asylum in a European country.
One silver lining to this crisis – it makes “Brexit” much more likely (can’t wait!)
heechee
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Today we have the body, washed ashore, of a young child to tug at the heart strings. But strangely no mention of the fact her parents need not have risked this child’s life in the first place. There are numerous safe nations they could have travelled too by foot but, for what may be financial reasons possibly, they chose to take a dangerous voyage in an unsuitable craft across the Mediterranean Sea.
Obviously far more needs to be done to dissuade people taking such risky ventures. Adequate deterrents like immediate deportation, towing back to point of departure for such boats etc.
We also need to build detention camps for the folks who make it through,like Hungary has done, so we can process them properly before deciding their future.
GEORGE
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I think you make one mistake in this article. You say that Yvette Cooper is not fit for purpose. This tends to imply that other politicians are. I don’t think there’s one politician that’s fit to serve the people of this country.
If we are to believe that it’s our responsibility to take care of these people, when does the responsibility end? Assuming that all these ‘refugees’ are from Syria, why are those that can cross to Europe to be treated as special cases? The population of Syria is approximately 29 million people. Moving those 29 million into Europe would solve the problem. Is that what we are being asked to do?
If we take in 10 million then are we going to say the other 19 million don’t matter and leave them to the wolves?
If we are going to take in any African that is not happy when will there be a point at which we stop? When every African lives in Europe?
This detracts from the big question of demographics. The U.N. predicts that the population of Africa will rise eightfold over the next one hundred years. If these people can’t feed themselves now how will they in the future? Are we going to allow these billions into Europe too?
Over the last thirty years trillions of pounds has been paid to help Africa. What has been the result of these payments? Where has the money gone? What has it been used for?
Everyday we see some celebrity asking for money to help in some dire situation in Africa. It may well be very admirable to promote these causes. The future consequences of this largesse only exacerbates the problem.
Perhaps nature is trying to tell us and Africa that there’s a problem and we are ignoring her?
Byrhtnoth
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Max wrote ‘an assumption predicated on the false notion that we have done nothing to justify our relatively greater wealth, just as the immigrants have done nothing to justify their poverty’. Yes, there is an assumption amongst liberals and leftists that the wealth of the West is largely a consequence of colonial exploitation, and that the present international system is unfair and exploitative towards developing countries, and thus compels the inhabitants of some of these countries to migrate to the West, and that we must atone for these injustices by opening our borders to them.
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However, the facts do not support these assumptions. Globalization has been hugely beneficial to developing nations by permitting a massive transfer of technical resources from the West while enabling equalization of incomes across the world. Any advantages that the West may have enjoyed in the past are due to native talent and industry over a very long time span, starting from a period when the world was a ‘level playing field’ as Max puts it. For instance, consider the fact that the iron age in China began in the 6th century BC, while in Europe it started in the Caucasus in the 11th century BC. Therefore, although China may have been more culturally advanced in ancient times, Europeans had a head start with technological development.
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There is a consensus that the quickening of artistic and technological progress in Europe at the end of the Middle Ages is due largely to the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek literature. Largely overlooked is the fact the Muslims had also rediscovered this ancient literature and that some surviving works of the ancients owe their existence to Arabic translations in the great libraries of Toledo and Baghdad. The Muslims also had the advantage of taking control of the Byzantine empire and enlarging it beyond it’s greatest extent, thus bringing enormous material resources under their control, along with the scientific and technical expertise of their Greek subjects. Despite receiving the same advantages as the West the Muslim world went into decline until the West was compelled to take control of the ramshackle and impoverished Muslim societies in the 19th and 20th centuries.