Yes, illegal migration is awful and it is impacting everything and everyone. But the minute we begin to treat these illegal migrants horribly, we have lost to our enemies. That is what they want to see. They want to say that we are no different and when it comes to it, we are happy to demonise the weak, threaten them etc.
It is the reason we cannot condone people saying “burn the hotels down” or push their boats back across the channel etc.
We are different. We have our democracy and we do not wish to descend into barbarism!
Brits can disagree about what’s going on in Isreal, BUT Jews and Israelis in the UK cannot become targets of hate or persecution. Same as for Palestinians and their supporters in the UK, they must not become targets. We can disagree and debate and even protest etc., all fine. But the rule of law must be maintained. Opposing illegal migrants cannot be allowed to turn into harassment of anyone who doesn’t look like a direct descendant of Henry the VIII. What we need is policies, a strategy, answers! We cannot continue to put illegal migrants in 5-star hotels (or even no-star hotels!) while homeless Brits line our streets and poor, starving kids from poor families suffer for housing. And the security aspect remains a major issue. But we must avoid allowing excrements and intolerant folk to hijack this and turn it into what it isn’t! We have crimes and criminals in the UK long before the illegal migrants turned up. And yes, some of them will be criminals too or won’t understand our ways and start chatting up teens etc., we must be robust in addressing all that. And yes, the illegal boat crossings across the channel must end and soon!
But we must not allow these issues to destroy our way of life and the rule of law! We are not animals!
We are and we’re not and have never ever been perfect, and our societies still have a lot to do in sorting intolerance, hate, misuse of social media etc., blaming it all on illegal migrants is easy, it’s a cheap shot. But we must avoid that temptation. We need to find decent, effective means of solving our disagreements and airing our grievances, but we cannot and must not allow these issues to destroy our fundamental way of life and our decency
We need to be able to disagree with each other, without burning the place down! This is what those against the west and against democracy want us to do: they want us to disagree about migrants, race, gay rights etc., and they want to see us tear each other apart. They want to see us riot and burn the place down. Then they win!
And today, they are winning. We are rioting, we are ripping into each other. It needs to stop! There are democratic, law-abiding, decent, sane ways for us to disagree and make our points! We need to revert to those…
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