Immigration

The only reason I mention it is that, in this day and age, I somehow find it hard to imagine a white actor being hired to play a black historical figure. While Mr Gatwa gets to play Marlowe, the writer of Tamburlaine and Doctor Faustus, I somehow doubt that, say, Keira Knightley would be cast to play the Nobel Prize-winning African-American novelist Toni Morrison, or that Hugh Grant would get the nod to portray the great Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. I tend to suspect that such casting would be considered not just inauthentic, but disrespectful. If not downright racist.

Nowadays, in fact, casting white actors to play black characters is unacceptable even in cartoons. This may seem curious, given that a cartoon’s audience is unable to see what race the actors are. None the less, we know it’s true, because in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, the Fox TV network announced: “The Simpsons will no longer have white actors voice non-white characters.” As a result, Harry Shearer, who is white, no longer voices the character of Dr Hibbert, who is black.

The same happened on another popular US cartoon, Family Guy. For 20 years, the character of Cleveland Brown, who is black, had been voiced by Mike Henry, who is white. But after the Black Lives Matter protests, Mr Henry announced that he was quitting the role, saying: “Persons of colour should play characters of colour.”

In summary, then, here are the new rules. A black actor may play a real-life historical figure who was white. But a white actor may not even provide the voice for a completely fictional character who is black. Please update your records accordingly.

We might even describe it as racist double standards.

One of the UK’s biggest police forces has temporarily blocked applications from white British candidates in an attempt to boost diversity, The Telegraph can disclose.

West Yorkshire Police (WYP) is currently preventing white British candidates from applying for jobs as recruits to its police constable entry programmes. However, “under-represented” groups can lodge their applications early.

The process has raised concerns that white British candidates are being unfairly treated, amounting to a form of positive discrimination that could be potentially unlawful.

And if it isn’t, shouldn’t it be?

One of the – few perhaps – things to like about French officialdom is that they adamantly refuse to even collect the statistics on ethnicity. Every French citizen is a French citizen and that’s just that. Now, obviously, that’s an attitude which – very definitely – does not feed through into all of life. But as Sir John pointed out, if you don’t collect the numbers then no damn fool will try to do something with them.

In 1956, her parents, along with most of the remaining Jewish community, were forced to leave Egypt after the Suez crisis.

Given modern interpretations of the word – where a population is moved from its homeland – genocide this clearing of the Arab countries of their substantial Jewish populations was a genocide. One that some people are remarkably unwilling to talk about….

It is a factually inaccurate and totally, utterly wrong to say that undocumented people are ‘illegal’ and are ‘criminals’

It is a crime to breask the law. Someone who has done so has done something illegal.

If it’s a crime to wander across a border without the right documents then someone who has done that has done something illegal.

What’s the difficulty Mehdi Hassan has with grasping this?

That Mehdi thinks it should not be illegal to do so might be true. But if it is it is, right?

A population rise of more than eight million since Tony Blair came to power in 1997

Blimey. Given that the fertility rate ain’t causing it – indeed, will be subtracting from it – that’s a lot of immigration there.

An illegal Iraqi migrant who fled his home country over his part in an alleged exam fraud has avoided deportation after claiming a people smuggler threw away his ID and phone.

The man fled Iraq after being threatened with arrest for the alleged fraud when he was caught on CCTV delivering test papers to an address a day before students were due to sit for the qualification.

He claimed that an “agent” who facilitated his passage to the UK had not only thrown away his ID documents but also made him get rid of his phone, on which he had his family’s numbers.

The Iraqi, who was granted anonymity, told an immigration tribunal that he could not remember the telephone numbers for his family, which meant he could not get their help to replace his lost ID card.

The amazement is that the court bought it.

Do we not have an offence of “taking the piss”?

Who knew?

The number of migrants caught illegally crossing the US southern border has dropped by 82 per cent since Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

In February, 8,347 people were arrested trying to illegally cross the border, according to US border patrol statistics, putting the new administration on track for the lowest year of migrant crossings in decades.

The numbers represent a staggering decline in arrests at the Mexico border since December, the final full month of the Biden administration, when the border patrol apprehended 47,330 migrants.

This means that we could stop he boats at the cost of what, half a dozen 5 inch shells? Well aimed 5 inchers…..

Germany could take in 500,000 migrants per year on a special visa scheme and give voting rights to non-citizens.

The new policies were drawn up by members of the Social Democratic (SPD) Party and could become a flashpoint in coalition talks with Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which wants to significantly toughen immigration rules.

Josh Simons is a newly elected Labour MP and trusted ally of McSweeney who I have heard being tipped for quick promotion to the cabinet. During the second parliamentary reading of the government’s border security, asylum and immigration bill, he gave a quite remarkable speech based on his admiration for the ancient Greeks – and specifically their categorisation of migrants as “metics”. Such people, he told the Commons, “were subject to different rules; who joined the city was controlled and the bar was set high for who could become a citizen and vote”. If metics broke Athenian laws, moreover, “they were expelled from the city, and sometimes thrust into the blazing Greek sun.”

Lest anyone think he was getting a bit carried away, this was merely an object lesson in the principle whereby “people who govern themselves control who they are and who becomes a member of the demos”.

Being one of us has both costs and privileges. Why should we decide who gets to become one of us?

A convicted Zimbabwean paedophile was allowed to stay in Britain because he would face “hostility” if he was deported back to his home country.

An immigration tribunal judge blocked his deportation to Zimbabwe by the Home Office because it would breach his rights under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) which prohibits torture, inhuman treatment and degrading punishment.

Sarah Pinder, the judge, accepted his lawyers’ claims that, as an openly gay man who had been jailed for more than five years for child sex offences, he was likely to face “substantial hostility” from the Zimbabwean authorities.

Err, yes:

The Home Office ordered his deportation in June 2021, but he fought this under Article 3 of the ECHR, arguing that he would face inhumane treatment in Zimbabwe because he was “a gay white man, who would seek to live his sexual orientation openly, and who is also a convicted sex offender”.

His lawyers argued that his risk of persecution would be increased as a result of his reduced social skills because of his health conditions, including autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, attention deficit disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and deafness.

And, well, you can sorta see the point. Not that I agree with it, but you can sorta see it. But:

She said that RC “would also be at a greater risk on account of his disabilities, namely his deafness and autism, which would reduce his social skills and likely lead him to be open about his sexuality… the judge had also considered that the appellant would likely disclose his convictions with him not appearing to have any sense of the gravity attached to his offending”.

So he’s unrepentant and we’ve got to keep him because he’s unrepentant? That is….odd.

An Afghan man suspected of ramming a car into a crowd in Munich had his asylum application rejected six years ago but had still not been deported.

Perhaps deportation should be made easier once the law has run its course?

Sweden, the once model society now plagued by guns

Quite so, quite so:

Gangs, anger over migration and the worst shooting in its history have turned a land of harmony into a tinderbox

Be careful about your immigration policy….

A 25-year-old migrant from Cameroon said: “We saw the money – they count it in front of you. Women cost more because in Libya women are considered sex objects.”

Another Cameroonian, a 26-year-old man, told the researchers: “It’s a business they have with the Libyans. It’s about selling human beings, trafficking n—–s. It’s shameful.”

Tunisian police and Libyan militia reportedly refer to the captured migrants as “black gold”, in a chilling echo of the transatlantic slave trade.

So, those who migrate from sub-Saharan to N Africa hoping to get across into Europe find slave traders – flat out real slave traders, none of this modern shit – in the way.

That’s pretty bad.

The report, entitled State Trafficking: Expulsion and Sale of Migrants from Tunisia to Libya, offers a grim insight into the human cost of a crackdown that last year succeeded in reducing the number of migrants and refugees crossing from North Africa to Italy by 59 per cent.

Guess who’s fault this is? That’s right! It’s the wipipo in Europe’s fault!

The Libyans and Tunisians are just helpless vicitims themselves, victims of their Arab nature or summat.

Fun, eh?

Exams for solicitors should be made easier in order to boost diversity in the industry, lawyers have urged.

Britain’s legal watchdog is understood to have faced calls to increase the pass rates for its Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) in response to concerns that lower pass rates among trainees from ethnic minority backgrounds could be hindering law firms’ diversity initiatives.

It’s possible to say that we should actively look to aid “diverse” entrants as the population has changed and, perhaps, so should the professions. It’s also possible to point out that it’s really rather racists to insist that brown or black would be lawyers are, sadly, dimmer than white would bes.

But it is really very odd to insist that we must have that diversity so as to take advantage of hidden talent and also that the pool we’re fishing in is packed with those such dullards that they can’t qualify.

An exodus of millionaires from Britain last year was equivalent to losing half a million taxpayers, analysis shows.

And the country did lose 500k taxpayers as well. Outmigration is quite high, net migration is inwards because of the vast wave arriving.

Suipping out the people who make money and pay taxes and shipping in the people who don’t and require subsidy isn’t, hugely, a wise idea.

Up to one in 12 in London is an illegal migrant

8% of London is there illegally? Note that’s not immigrants, nor asylum seekers. That’s illegals….

The new estimate has emerged in a study commissioned by Thames Water,

Ah, now this could get amusing. Back a decade or more Polly T was insisting that the inner cities were grossly underfunded and look, look, the proof was in the use of services – sewage esp – which proved that the capita was much higher, therefore the per capita was unfairly low.

The same source of the same info is clearly going to be an acceptable source, no?

Ahahaha, no don’t be silly. But is should be…..

The next chancellor of Austria could be Europe’s most Right-wing leader after establishment parties failed to strike a pact to keep a populist pro-Putin faction out of power.

The victory for Herbert Kickl’s Eurosceptic and anti-migrant Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) marks a paradigm shift on the continent as traditional coalition building between moderate parties falters.

So, you build this firewall, this cordon sanitaire. If we, the right thinking, stop those baddies from ever getting a taste of political power then, well, they’ll never have any political power.

But there’s a reason they’re doing well in elections. Lots of people like their ideas. And so it’s possible – possib le, not certain – that their vote will keep going up. And one day, leap your firewall. At which point you’ve no defence, have you? Becauyse everything was reliant upon their never actually gaining power.

Migrants from cultures with “medieval attitudes to women” should be blocked from coming to Britain, the Tories have said amid the ongoing row over child grooming gangs.

Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, said some of those who had migrated to the UK in recent years had “backward, frankly medieval attitudes to women” – and that “we have to be very careful about who is coming into this country”.

His remarks were supported by Kemi Badenoch, the Tory leader, who has previously said that all cultures are not “equally valid”.

Great. OK. So what about asylum seekers? Who might well be coming here in order to escape medieval attitudes…..and, under the law as it stands, have a right to asylum for precisely that reason. Heck, how about some proudly bourgeois Afghan family just trying to escape the Taleban? Escape by migration, not asylum?

This is not to say the goal ain’t great – it’s to point out that it’s not that simple.

Foreign nationals are more than three times as likely to be arrested for sexual offences as British citizens, according to the first analysis revealing the scale of crime by migrants.

OK

This represented a quarter (26.1 per cent) of the total estimated 35,000 sexual offence arrests, according to the first analysis of its kind by the Centre for Migration Control of data from police forces, the Home Office and the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Foreigners were 3.5 times as likely to be arrested for sex offences as British suspects, based on a rate of nearly 165 arrests per 100,000 of the migrant population against 48 per 100,000 for Britons.

OK.

Without thinking too hard about it all those boats seem to be unloading prime age males and criminality – let alone sex offences – is a prime age male thing.

Here’s the number that juddered for me:

While foreigners make up nine per cent of the population

One tenth, eh? Thassalot. A lorralot.

Inside the ‘priority’ NHS services for migrants
Asylum seekers receiving ‘preferential medical treatment’ despite increasing wait times for Britons

But it’s near enough true to stand.

The worm is turning here, no? 15 yers ago this would have been Nick Griffin shrieking in the street and the newspapers taking no note of that smell.

Now….