Mediterranean Immigrant Crisis - EU plays politics with lives

In recent weeks and probably up to the UK election (7 May 2015) and beyond, the main focus for the hand wringing and breast beating is the plight of the Mediterranean boat people, those unfortunates who, seeking a way out of poverty or escape from a war zone have put their lives in the hands of some of the most ruthless and brutal criminals in the modern world (and by modern standards criminals of the past were pussy cats).

The hand wringing and breast beating is pure hypocrisy of course, just the latest example of the emotionally retarded left's need to be seen to care If these people actually did care about their fellow human beings rather than gathering brownie points with which to buy indulgences and thus escape a Kafkaesque trial of our worth as people, they might understand their cultural Marxist 'caring' does more harm than good.

But while the emotionally needy petit bourgeoisie might feel their guilt at being born in a relatively prosperous nation could be salved by supporting the efforts of the Labour party to change voter demographic so much by encouraging unrestricted immigration, to a one party state (the votes of new migrants being bought by the generous state benefits only a Labour government would provide, the policy may have succeeded in cementing Labour support among the suburbal and managerial classes, but resulted in bittterly divided working class communities (from a new media article in support of UKIP:

… we only need print the Labour quote with regard to forcing uncontrolled and unending immigration on the British nation to 'rub noses in diversity' and also the note on the day Labour left office boasting that there was 'no money left' to demonstrate the intention of Labour to destroy British culture, population, society and laws and to spend taxpayers' money not only on industrial scale irresponsibility but for Party use and Marxist projects.

Even senior members of the last Labour government, including Jack Straw and David Blunkett, have spoken out against that policy, citing the social problems in their constituencies caused by mass immigration.

But are the hand wringers and breast beaters who wail that 'anybody who wants to come to Britain and make a better life for themselves should be allowed in and given citizenship without questions' really doing migrants any favours or are these pious fools (yes, leftist thinking is like the dogma and creed of a fundamentalist religion,) Any self righteous fool who thinks they are 'helping the poor' does not know how the illegal immigration business works. So here's a beginners guide to this ugliest of all crimes.

Take a walk eastwards along the Marine Drive from my Dear Old Mum's home in Morecambe Lancashire and before covering half a mile, while looking out across the bay's wide expanse of sands towards the Lake District fells you will come across a memorial to a group of Chinese migrants who, while cockling in the shallow but treacherous waters of Morcambe Bay where channels carved trough the sand by outflow from rivers that empty into the bay shift constantly and an area of firm sand can become quicksand in a matter of hours.

Near Hest Bank, Morecambe

Thus it was with the group of shellfish harvesters dumped on the sands that February night in 2004. They were given a sack, a scoop and a tool for raising the clams to the surface and left, in the dark, to gather shellfish that were destined for the tables of expensive restaurants where the bourgeois left wing luvvies would gather to eat dinners that cost more than a cockler could earn in a week (don't look at me, I might eat in expensive restaurants, but never shellfish) congratulate themselves on how much they were doing for the fight against oppression and exploitation.

In the darkess, far away from their homes and families, as the Chinese cocklers were overwhelmed by the cold waters of the inrushing tide, the truck they had used to reach the cockle beds was submerged. Some tried to swim to safety, others huddled together on a sandbank, hoping for rescue. Just one had a mobile telephone and knew enough English to call for help, but due to his being unable to give a clear description of the location which meant the authorities had to get an electronic trace on the call, it was too late when help arrived. The man with the mobile phone was the only one to be rescued, twenty one bodies were recovered. Nobody knows how many went out to the cockle beds.

Irony, the gang masters for whom the cocklers were working didn't give and more of a flying fuck for the resaurant customers who would eat their plunder that they did for the workers whose lives they risked. A recent case of oyster rustling on the north Kent coast in southern England showed that the harvest was shelled on the beach to be shipped straight to customers. Shellfish (bivalves) should be purified by being kept in clean water for several days before they are fit to be eaten. If this is not done a moment's carelessness by a chef can easily result in serious food poisoning.

The Morecambe Bay cocklers had no right to be out plundering the cockle beds, there is a strict licensing policy in operation to preserve stocks of shellfish, and also to prevent people who have not been properly schooled in survival techniques and safety equipment requirements putting their lives at risk. The Chinese cocklers did not know anything about that, they should not have been in Britain and few understood English adequately to read warnings. But they had no choice anyway, the Chinese cocklers were effectively slaves, owned by the gangs who transported them, in conditions worse than are found on a cattle boat, from their homes half a world away to Britain to provide cheap labour for criminal operations.

The way I understand the trafficking racket to work, and I have researched it thoroughly, is people sign up for a package including travel, documents and a guaranteed job and house. This does not come cheap and on arriving in Europe, the migrants (those who have not been abandoned in the Mediterranean) find they have no legal status and the only work available is menial work, virtually slave labour, for associates of the criminals who sold them the package.
"But why don't they just go to European authorities who will give them legal protection?" the do-gooders ask.
Simples. Because the crooks back home know where they came from and where their families and friends live.

This is a vastly under-reported aspect of the whole thing. These boats are just another service offered over the internet - smart people aren't going on them, because they are too dangerous. Our Dear Leaders, Merkel, Cameron, Hollande etc. but most of all Barack Hussein Obamsa are effectively collaborating with third world immigrant gangs running a disgusting service into the EU. I heard a story about one of these boats drifting in the mediterranean for 10 days.

Everybody who encourages people to put their lives into the hands of "people smugglers", and to take their families onto rickety boats, has the blood of those who die, as the result, on their hands(and that includes anyone who votes Labour because The Fabian Society and other Labour affiliated organisations are among those placing adverts in African and middle easter newspapers, selling the idea that Europe desperately needs unskilled, uneducated immigrants).

The hand wringers and breast beaters of the left say we must let them all come, all the impoverished, marginalised, oppressed, persecuted and simply malcontent. I even saw on Facebook one university dumbed down idiot, in response to a UKIP candidate's protestation that Britain was full, claim that if you look at Google Earth it's clear there is lots of land in Britain not built on, which could be used to accommodate migrants. It's typical of the dumbing down effect of Cultural Marxist brainwashing administered in universities that the imbecile was unaware of the problems caused by interfering with natural drainage, the importance of woodland and peat upland environments, wetlands and so one, none of which are suitable for human habitation. Oh no, all the people in the world should be invited to come to Britain, after all there are only seven billion people and we have three hundred billion square yards of land, everybody could have 45 square yards in which to house themselves, grow food and do everything else humans have to do.

University dumbed down Lefties are nothing if not selfish and egocentric of course so with that in mind we can understand what this poor loser was saying is “Look at me, look at me everybody, see how much I care about the poor, the oppressed and the deprived. And PLEASE, PLEASE give me a few Facebook likes to prop up my self esteem.