More Migrants Die Trying to Reach The Land Of Milk And Honey.

Forty one Migrants have drowned crossing the Mediterranean off the coast of Italy when their boat sank.

Of course the Left are saying it's a tragedy, but are not accepting culpability for the deaths. Because it's the Left that insist we keep accepting limitless numbers of migrants. It's the left that insist that we cannot remove the pull factors. It's the left that insist we can't introduce deterrent measures to reduce the numbers.

So instead we have to house the migrants, not in barracks, but in hotels. We can't just give them a room in a hotel, we have to give them pocket money. We have to feed them, clothe them (although I'm sure not up to the standards of the designer gear they had on when they crossed the Channel). I mean Asics? Go to hell, where's my Nike Airmax, I demand them now! Human Rights!

The thing the Left have yet to grasp is the things we had in place for our own hard-working population are pull factors for migrants and cause them to make the dangerous crossings. If the pull factors were removed, or restricted to tax-paying or long-term residents, then there would be no crossings.

"We've always had these pull factors in place and the crossings didn't happen before" say the left. And that's true. But things have changed. Not the pull factors, but now there is an organised crime network built up to exploit those people willing to risk their lives to get to the land of plentiful. To exploit our good nature and hospitality.

The huge crime network is the difference. Created from the remains of the radical terrorist organisations, the crime network spans the whole of Africa, the Middle East  and parts of Asia. These are the scraps if ISIS, Islamic Jihad, Al Queda and a host of other "former" terrorist organisations. It's the equivalent of a mobster going legit. The terrorist organisations did this previously to move agents around, but now they've found those networks can move ordinary people around for profit. Huge profit.

And to be honest, if they mix a terrorist or ten in amongst the ordinary desperate people, then that's great, they have sleeper agents within their enemy's territory. 

The crime bosses have jumped on the bandwagon and used the networks to transport effectively slave labour for their drug networks and their sweatshops and money laundering enterprises in the West.

All those hand car washes and Turkish barbers need staffing somehow to keep the money laundering happening. But it's all legit. Those huge "loans" given to start the business up need repaying at huge interest rates. Or someone loses a finger, or a family member.

The other institutions that are supposed to stop organised crime are no better. The Banks close Fred the butcher's account because he deals in cash, because his elderly customers deal in cash as well. Typical money laundering activity apparently. But ignore the huge loans for brand new businesses. And the Police? Hah! Don't make me laugh. They're too busy issuing PFNs and scouring the internet for hate speech. Organised crime? Not on the radar for the Socialists in charge because all business is exploitation and crime according to these quasi-Marxists. They can't tell the difference.

Sometimes I really despair. Are our intelligence services that thick? (Yes) Do they not have assets in place to hear the same things I'm hearing? Do they have intelligence on this but the government refuse to act? Are the government passing information on to other governments, but the foreign government fail to act? Transparency would be great in alleviating the political pressure.

The thing that pisses me off is the lack of transparency. The government come across as inept and incompetent.  

And without evidence to the contrary that's the only conclusion I can come to. 

A Revelation and a Request.

I was thinking recently and had a revelation:  Over the past 25 years, what government policies have provided a net benefit to me? I can't think of a point in the past 25 years that I've felt better off or more secure.

I have a request. Have a think yourself. Ask yourself the question: what exactly have successive governments and political parties done for me in the past 25 years?

Because I really, really, can't think of a year where I've actually felt better off thanks to government policies in the past 25 years. In fact the absolute opposite: I have been directly attacked by them.

I'm a car driving, house-renting, working class low-paid worker.

Yes, over the past 25 years there have been moves to reduce the amount of tax I pay by raising the income tax threshold, but conversely, I've had to pay more in Vehicle excise duty, or fuel duty, or had my pension taxed, or had to pay into an entirely new pension pot, which has reduced my net wealth. Those things the Tories used to call stealth taxes when Labour were in power.

Not at any point in the last 25 years has any policy made me richer, or better off. edit: It's actually 30 years, I forgot John Major's Tories and the Fuel Price Escalator.

When Labour came to power they introduced the IR35 tax rules which stopped me working as an independent IT contractor. Blair's buddies in the big corporations wanted to stop us being more agile and filling gaps and costing them profit. So I stopped earning £70,000 a year and all the potential trickle-down that could have had into the local economy when I spent it.

Nope, I instantly lost thousands in earnings. Never to recover.

So, in 2002 after running down my savings I started being a low-paid worker. 

I thought the Tories may have removed the IR35 rules and allowed the independent contracting sector to flourish again, released from red tape. But nope. They carried on with it and the HMRC doubled-down, attacking ever more areas of contracting.

Being a car driver I've had incessant request for more money. Either in VED or in more expensive fuel. The only time fuel prices dropped was during the pandemic, which was irrespective of government policy, it was caused by lack of demand.

With rises in indirect taxation replacing reductions in direct taxation in the form of income tax outstripping the benefits of the reductions I feel as if I'm being exploited by government. 

Add to that legislation that supresses my ability to talk freely, (the Bastard Offence Laws), the government promotion every ethnicity, creed, colour and religion EXCEPT MINE, There's no wonder I feel that those at the top no longer represent me and my ideology, do not offer me any benefit from them being in office.

Being a poor, straight, white, heterosexual male over 60 who works and relies on a car to continue working, there has been no government, no political party expressing support for me for at least 25 years. Instead all I see is oppression from those above.

I even can't say John Major's Tories didn't directly attack me. They introduced the fuel price escalator, a way of artificially raising the price of fuel in order to reduce traffic on the roads. So saying 25 years is generous, it's actually been 30 years of direct attacks by government on my net wealth. Half my life and more than half of my working life. Who would put up with that?

So, over to the main political parties: what exactly are you going to do that will directly benefit me? What are you going to do to earn my vote?

Because if you don't, I'm going to vote for someone else, no matter how bad, how horrible their opinions and actions. I've had enough of your direct attacks. 

I've not even listed the indirect attacks, the ideological ones, the abandonment of the working class by the Labour party, the promotion of every other culture other than British Culture, the rise of government sponsored non-Charities, abandoning social housing provision, the list could literally be endless.

UPDATE: 

I'm deliberately leaving out Thatcher's bonfire of the corporations in the early Eighties that ended up with me being made redundant. Although I suffered initially, her government redeemed themselves by offering paid training courses that allowed me to get into IT and start earning a decent wedge, more than I would have if I had stayed in the job I was in when she came to power in 1979. Overall hers was the last government to provide me personally with a net increase in living standards and not directly attack me. 

Conservatives! The Way to Stop Lefty Lawyers With your 80-Seat Majority.

Okay Tories, stop griping about lefty lawyers hamstringing your attempts to remove illegal immigrants. 

Either you really want to remove them, or you don't. And the evidence at the moment is you don't want to remove them. Like the Socialists you appear to be.

Because the easy way to stop all the lawfare is to say this to the left:

"If you continue to hamstring the government's attempts to deal with the problem that affects the poorest the most, then fine, we will use our 80-seat majority to enact legislation to withdraw from the ECHR which also removes workers projections and rights. 

If the lefty lawyers use other legislation like UN charters, we will remove ourselves from those too. 

Over to you lefties...."

And leave it at that. If the lefty lawyers and pressure groups continue to interfere then remove the legislation that empowers them. If any charities involved are getting government grants, remove those also. 

It's time to play hardball and take no shit. The government shouldn't be funding organisations that then cost the government more money by opposing it. The left want everyone to be in lockstep and suppress opposition. Well, it's time the government gave 'em a taste of their own medicine. That's if the government is actually on the right.

If I were PM, my answer so all of this pandering to immigrants is: I don't care. By all means we will support those fleeing war zones etc. But they have to apply legally through the legal channels. Thos turning up on our doorstep unannounced especially from a safe country like France will be refused any and all support.

If the lefty charities want to provide the money to put them up in 4-star hotels, then fill your boots, but the government will supply not a single penny of taxpayers money towards their remaining in the country.