Calais cock-up.......

Ah, sweet mystery of life; why is it that the Masters of the Universe look for difficult solutions when facing simple problems. The solution to the migrant disaster in Calais is simple.

 

The West Africans are economic migrants. They have no business trying to come to the UK from countries such as Nigeria, one of the richest in the world (admittedly most of it is stolen by the elites, but that is not our problem). Many are French-speakers who seem not to be welcome by their former colonial rulers, who in any case are far less generous than the soft British when it comes to jobs, housing, and hand-outs.

 

It the French are not willing to accept them, they should invoke EU law and send them back to their first port of entry into Europe, which is almost certainly Italy from whence the authorities have been quietly helping them over the borders of other countries.

 

The alternative is to air-lift them back to their native lands. Whatever the French decide, the fact is that it is a French problem, not ours, and we are not taking any illegals.

 

So much for the West Africans. What about the other illegals, from Syria and Somalia?

 

Another matter altogether. They are refugees and the countries to which they flee have obligations under the UN Convention on Refugees.

 

 A refugee is defined as  "A person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it’.

 

That seems to be a pretty good description for Somalis and Syrians. The fact that they are ‘illegals’ is irelevant. The Convention goes on to say that

A refugee has the right to be free from penalties pertaining to the illegality of their entry to or presence within a country, if it can be shown that they acted in good faith- that is, if the refugee believes that there was ample cause for their illegal entry/presence, i.e. to escape threats upon their life or freedom, and if they swiftly declare their presence.  The Contracting States shall not impose penalties, on account of their illegal entry or presence, on refugees who, coming directly from a territory where their life or freedom was threatened in the sense of article 1, enter or are present in their territory without authorization, provided they present themselves without delay to the authorities and show good cause for their illegal entry or presence. (Article 31).

 

So sending them back, as the Standard 6 noise-makers advocate, is not an option. But there is another more positive solution at least partially.

 

We now appreciate that the Syrians are frequently educated and professionally-qualified. Unlike Africans, these are not people who have been exposed to our concept of civilization for two or three centuries. They come from one of the cradles of civilization. Many speak flawless English, as we have seen from TV news interviews.

 

So we should get amongst them and cherry-pick those who could be economically useful. Our own economy is suffering a chronic and serious skills-shortage.

 

But Germany needs 200,000 immigrants to make up for its declining population. As ‘Stonewall’ Jackson is alleged to have said ‘Blessed is he whose cause is just; but thrice blessed is he who gets his blow in fust’.