No Action Offered

‘No action offered on migration’ says the BBC News website headline – a phrase derived from a Conservative party press release by the Shadow Immigration Minister, Dominic Grieve.

This comes after Labour’s Immigration Minister, Phil Woolas had been forced to partially backtrack on comments he’d made in an interview with the Times about reducing the number of immigrants entering Britain.

In a post-Times interview, Phil Woolas told the BBC’s One Show:

I think, frankly, there’s a lot of nonsense talked about the cap…

The European Union population can come and go just as we from Britain go and live in Spain, perhaps, or France - so, too, can others come to our country.

So it’s very difficult to see, even if we are in favour of a cap, what it should be.

And here, for once, we have the truth from a Government Minister – well, almost. Phil Woolas is indeed right that there is ‘a lot of nonsense talked about the cap’. It is nonsense because, as even the dim-witted journalists at the BBC have finally grasped:

Immigration from inside the EU cannot be controlled, and neither can a limit be placed on genuine claims for asylum.

We cannot control immigration whatsoever within the European Union as our old friend EU Commission Directive 2004/38/EC put pay to that. However, in his interview with the One Show, Phil Woolas fails to actually mention the elephant in the room (ie. the role of the European Union). To mention the EU directly in British Westminster politics is just not the done thing.

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Rat Flees Sinking Ship

The BBC are reporting that Ruth Kelly is to stand down as MP for Bolton West and will not be seeking re-election. Ms Kelly is claiming that she made the decision because she wants to spend more time with her family and children.

Could it be that the old left-wing fanatic is afraid of losing her seat at the next election, which she currently holds with only a slim majority of around two thousand votes?

Whatever the true reason for her departure, good riddance I say. Unfortunately however, the damage she helped cause in her time as Education Secretary under Tony Blair’s premiership will not be undone by her political demise.

Ruth Kelly, like so many of her Ministerial predecessors across the decades, presided over the imposition of increasingly pitiful state education on the poorest in Britain while, as emerged earlier this year, allowing her own children to escape the system by sending them to good public schools. Of course, afraid of the public backlash that her hypocrisy would have sparked, she desperately attempted to suppress the truth before the story broke.

Unsurprisingly, Ms Kelly’s arrogant and hypocritical stance is not unique within the Labour party. Diane Abbott famously described her own decision to send her child to a public school despite being against them and for the hopeless state educational system in this country as, ‘indefensible’.

Quaking In His Boots

With Morgan Tsvangirai out of the running for the Zimbabwean Presidency, our utterly incompetent Foreign Secretary, David Miliband along with the Queen have said that the soon to be ‘re-elected’ Robert Mugabe will be stripped of his Knighthood.

Such a strong, decisive and well thought out act on the part of our Monarch, Ministers and Government will no doubt leave Mugabe quaking in his boots when he hears he’s lost his title as Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. Not.

If this rather pathetic and purely symbolic act is the best our Government can muster then Mr Mugabe has little to worry about, while the people of Zimbabwe still have much to fear.

Gordon Brown talks of wanting to see an end to violence in Zimbabwe and a peaceful transition to democracy – but this will not happen unless Mugabe is forced in some way to listen. Since African leaders have failed to strongly condemn President Mugabe’s terrible and oppressive regime; unless a western nation chooses to step in and take action then the suffering of the Zimbabwean people is only set to continue.

A Four Class Society

Back in 1997, John Prescott (the greedy fat pig who now claims to have bulimia) told us that ‘we are all middle-class now’. Spoken genuinely or an attempt to curry favour with Tony Blair – who knows or frankly cares, because either way reality tells an entirely different story.

New Labour’s ‘classless’ social concept was and always will be a façade and a lie. In whatever society you choose to consider humanity has and always will organise itself into classes. It is in our tribal nature to do so. No amount of social engineering can or will ever do away with this reality.

British society, like all others, still maintains degrees of class; it’s just that they have been noticeably transformed in more recent times. Largely gone are the days of the working, middle and upper classes. Relative economic affluence and prosperity for all has done away with the need for those terms, as did the destruction of the British manufacturing sector in the 1980s and the current rise of tertiary service industries.

Where once class was based upon economic well-being and means by which the man on the street earned his living, now class and our society revolve around the struggle for power, prestige and the ability to influence others. Thus people in Britain can now be categorised into roughly four different classes: the Elite, the Underclass, the Welfare class and Everyone Else.

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