When is 'illegal' 'iregular'? When the EU controls your immigration policy

Tereasa May is today telling everybody how serious the Governement is when it comes to dealing with immigration. It is a sham of course, because even she admits she and the government have no say obver migration from EU countries. With the EU becoming even more involved with foriegn policy and Justice policy the Government's room to manoevre on non-EU immigration just gets smaller.

Just yesterday the EU anounvced the creation of a visa regieme with the Ukraine, and they are setting deals with India, Moldova and others are planned. The EU still believes that it requires mass inward migration, no matter what the populations of the nations of Europe think about the matter.

In other words, Europe needs immigration to survive. Therefore, we need to find more legal ways to the EU", says Cecilia Malmström.

But here is how the arguement is being twisted by the European Union. After all people will get angry about illegal immigration. That is immigration that is not specifically accepted by the Governmenst of those nation states. So what do they do. They change the word. Non legal immigrants are no longer to be called 'illegal', far from it, now they are merely 'irregular'.

The Parliament consequently welcomes the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon and welcomes the increased parliamentary dimension of these policies, notably concerning legal migration and integration.

The European Parliament actively supports the introduction of a European immigration policy. On the admission of third-country nationals, it calls for the development of legal means, particularly to reduce incentives for irregular (1) immigration.

And the footnote?

1 Parliament prefers the term ‘irregular’ to ‘illegal’ because it does not believe that irregular entry to the territory of EU justifies the reference to illegality.

You cannot charge somebody for commiting an irregular act. You cannot deport somebody for a mere confusion with the system. Changing the owrds makes a massive difference to how a situation can be handled, and they know it.

I guess it would be irregular of me to smash them over the head with a lead pipe? Or irregular to force feed them a rolled up copy of the Bill of Rights? After all the defence of my soveriegnty, indeed fighting for self determination doesn't really justify reference to illegality does it now?

We will cut (non-EU) migration.. except we cannot

It isn't much of a claim, but, due to our membership of the European Union and the Corpus Juris it is the best that our benighted government can do. But it cannot even do that.

Today after a meeting in Brussels between Barosso, van Rompuy and the President of the Ukraine is Van Rumpy's statement,

I am very pleased that we can announce today an Action Plan for Ukraine towards the establishment of a visa free regime for short stay travel.

This of course fiollows hard on the heels of the EU's decision about immigration from India, also, famously not part of the European Union.

In the end it may be the case that Cameron and his government might be able to control immigration from the Islew of Man, and maybe at a push the Channel islands, but that is about it.

In the same speech, Van R also makes it clear that those clean living officials in the Ukraine will also have access to any amount of taxpayer funded EU project finance,

We have also been able to sign a Protocol to the current Partnership and Cooperation reement permitting Ukraine access to EU programmes. In practice this will allow Ukraine to benefit from EU programmes in areas such as business and entrepreneurship, information and ommunication
technology and energy.

Because they can be trusted to use our money wisely. Common William, isn't this Foriegn Affairs? Shouldn't you be saying something, or has the Cathy got your tongue?

India celebrates Eu control of the UK's borders

There are push and pull factors that impact on immigration. There are those things such a economic downturns and so forth which drive people to leave their homes, that would be a push factor.

The discovery that Britain no longer has a immigration policy is acting as a pull factor.

As we all know the Government has made a great play about how it is going to put a cap on Non-EU immigration. This is because as Nick Clegg pointed out during the Prime Ministerial debates there is nothing that anybody can do about immigration from the Member Nations of the EU, as under EU law which supercedes UK law, what ever Hague and his 'soveriegnty act' says.

It was one of the few times that I have ever said "I agree with Nick".

Anyhow even this small concession to having control of our own borders has been breached and the siege engine of choice is the upcoming EU-India trade deal As Bruno has pointed out

A planned "free trade agreement" with India, to be signed this December, will give skilled Indian IT workers, engineers and managers easy passage into Europe in return for European companies gaining access to India's huge domestic market.

This is a devastating rebuke to the British Governement and proof positive that we no longer control our borders. I am not here argueing whether or not Britain should let in highly skilled Indians (my preference is yes).My arguement is merely that it is no longer in the gift of the people of this country who can or who cannot join us.

What is also interesting, and slightly worrying is how Indian newspapers have picked up the story.
Here is the Hindu,

India-EU trade deal may help bypass UK migration cap

Here is the New Kerela

EU-India 'free trade agreement' will allow flood of Indian skilled workers into Britain

The Times of India Business,

India-EU trade deal may nullify UK migration cap

You get the point.

It is transparently obvious that if one was an Indian of some skill (reading an English language newspaper) I would be encouraged to look to emigrating to the UK.

That is a pull factor.

Where shall I go on my holidays?

Or more to the point, where shall I go to work?
The EU's pollster Eurobarometer has produced a new survey on the Freedom of Movement (otherwise known as uncontrollable borders).

If you look at Page 32 we have a graph titled

Q 13 In which country(ies) would you prefer to work?

Interestingly the top three countries share one thing, they are members of the Angloshere

US - 21%
UK -16%
Australia - 15%

So 52% of those that expressed a preference would like to go to English speaking, Common Law countries (Canada is there with 9%, New Zealand 6%). I note that this is the desire of those who wish to work, not those who wish to get benefits.

It becomes even moe interesting when the country of depature is included, with 26% wanting to go to Germany from the eastern block, but still with the UK at 21%.

Right down at the bottom of the document page 181 is the preference by country in raw figures. It will not suprise you that Brits want to go to the

US - 32%
Australia - 28%
New Zealand - 15%
Canada - 12%

So who wants to come to the UK (first column) and Germany (Second Column) In percentages

UK DE

BE - 17 3
BG - 17 18
CZ - 26 34
DK - 31 15
DE - 12 0
EE - 21 14
IE - 22 5
EL - 31 28
ES - 22 16
FR - 14 5
IT - 25 7
CY - 57 5
LV - 35 17
LT - 28 10
LU - 12 13
HU - 26 36
MT - 54 7
NL - 20 13
AT - 4 14
PL - 21 32
PT - 15 12
RO - 6 11
SI - 15 31
SK - 30 29
FI - 18 21
SE - 32 12
UK - 0 4

Whilst the situation with Malta and Cyprus can be explained by history, the rest is by opportunity.

Yup I think geography has something to do with it in the case of Germany, but just look at those numbers. Nobody can tell me that with that being the number of people who want to come here to work that we have control of our borders whilst we remain in the EU.

Where the Irish want to go is even more telling.

At a stroke of a Hungarian pen, another 450,000 EU citizens are created.

By passing a new citizenship law the Hungarian Parliament has just given EU citizenship - thus migration rights to the UK to 450,000 (approx) ethnic Hungarian speakers in the Ukraine and Serbia.

Now if the Hungarians wish to give citizenship rights to those stuck on the wrong side of national borders in the post Hapsburg world then OK, that is their right and choice so to do. (Though it is likely to worry some of the neighboring countries with large Hungarian minorities).

What I object to is the the fact that due to EU law there is nothing we can do to stop said types travelling and settling in the UK.

How can it be right/fair/reasonable for a foriegn government to pass a law that could theoretically have such serious consequences. And how can our Government justify membership of an organisation that strips the British people to make their own decisions about such important matters.

Oh they bang on about restricting immigration. But what they are talking about is non-EU immigration.

But what about those who overnight become EU citizens?

Nothing.

Ofcourse I am aware that the latest figures released under the International Passenger Survey suggest that more Eastern Europeans are leaving than arriving, but even if you can take those figures seriously - and many people suggest that the IPS is not in any way authorative that doesn't alter my point a jot.

So this year more leave than arrive, fine, and next year? The pass is sold.

Coals to Newcastle

It appears that infrastructure, jobs and so on are not the only problems that mass migration from Eastern Europe to the UK have caused.

DRINKS DEATH WARNING
East Somerset Coroner Tony Williams said the case was one of four similar deaths
of Polish nationals that had reached him recently and said a message needed to be sent out.

He said: "The number of Polish people dying seems to be starting to have an impact on us. This culture of heavy drinking is starting to cause problems."...

Mr Kaszowicz had been drinking over the weekend and, although too hungover to go into work on the day of his death, had continued drinking vodka including the strong black label variety.

Work colleague Grzegorz Lesniak, in a statement, said that he had known his friend as a hardworking man but at the weekend he liked to drink and had been known not to go to work because of his abuse of drink.

He said that there had been discussion in work that day about how drunk Mr Kaszowicz had been that weekend and people had been making jokes about it.

He had called in to see him that day and found Mr Kaszowicz in a pitiful state, looking terrible, unwashed and scruffy.Later that day he called in again and Mr Kaszowicz was still drinking.

When his flatmates arrived home, they put him to bed after he dozed off at a table. They became concerned when they went to take a photograph of him in such a state and could not find a pulse.

Neighbour David Wallace said he was aware that Mr Kaszowicz drank to excess and, when he saw him briefly that day, he had been staggering on the stairs.

"His eyes were bloodshot and he looked hungover. It was one of the worst states I had seen him in but it was not uncommon to see him in such a state," he said.

He told the coroner that the flat had become a meeting place for many of the Polish nationals living locally and on one occasion police had been called to calm down the situation.

Mr Williams said that it appeared Mr Kaszowicz had of his own freewill embarked on an extended period of drinking, not realising the risks."

My feeling is that he simply thought he was going to carry on drinking until he thought it appropriate to stop and be ready to go back to work."

I would have thought that the Poles hardly need to know the dangers of drink, but equally it also appears that they are begining to fit into local customs pretty well.

Illegal Immigration to be abolished says MEP

It is a fact that millions of illegal immigrants are living in Europe. Life as an illegal is a modern form of slavery and must therefore be abolished.

So says Manfred Weber in his report to be voted upon next week,

on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals

To say that I am somewhat startled by this is an understatement, and it is serious as he points out,

"This is the first time that the co-decision procedure has applied to Parliament's consideration of a draft common return procedure directive."

So in other words this will be law. It does not seem to have crossed the young chaps mind that modern equivalent of slavery is slavery, as those in Mauritania and Sudan will testify. The point is that slavery is involuntary and immigration, even illegal immigration, is voluntary. Now if you are talking about those being trafficked into sex slavery, then call it what it is slavery and it must be stopped. But don't equate illegal immigration with slavery, you cheapen the concept.

Oh and how the hell does he think that illegal immigration can be abolished? There are a couple of ways of doing it as far as my imagination works,

1) Abolish all immigration controls in their entirety.
2) Set up a network of maxim guns at all points around the EU border and blow them all away as soon as they appear over the horizon.
or,
3) Make the EU such an unattractive place to live, with a collapsing economy, dropping living standards, failing governmental system and so on as to make it unattractive to prospective migrants.

Aha, now I see the strategy.

Is Holland to join the Anglosphere?

The reason I ask is this. Firstly I do not know a Dutchman whose English is worse than my own, often far better - that goes pretty well the same for the Flemish of my aquaintance. So imagine my suprise when I read on Klein Verzert that a Dutch centre right party, the VVD allied to the British Lib/Dems in the European Parliament, are setting up a new immigration policy.

VVD MP Henk Kamp wants to reduce immigration as much as possible of people "who not speak Dutch or English". The minimum age of a non-EU marriage immigrant should go up from 21 to 24, to combat arranged marriages. The applicant should also pay a deposit of 7,500 euros, only repayable after five years if no call has been made on social security.

I wonder if the UK should reciprocate? I wonder what the Clegoon thinks?