With A Lot Of Hesitancy

[poliphilo]

My sympathies are with the migrants. They're enterprising and brave.

My sympathies are also with the French. Why should they bust a gut to protect our borders?

Beyond that...

I do rather think the migrants are chasing after castles in the air. I'm flattered they think Britain is such a totally wonderful place to live but...

Channel 4 had a piece a few days back about migrants who had returned to their countries of origin. Apparently  northern Somalia is absolutely the place to be right now. They're rebuilding after the war and crying out for people. One chap had gone from being an estate agent in London to a camel herder on the edge of the desert. "This is paradise," he said. "No council tax. no bills..."

But look, this is the world as it's going to be. It's borders are porous and increasingly indefensible. As always the political instinct is to try and keep things the way they were by sticking fingers in dykes;  and as always it's an unequal fight. Sea v little Dutch boy- which are you going to back?

There's talk about deploying British soldiers to Calais. Oh brilliant! Is that really how we want to live?

Comments

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Wherever Nirvana may be, it certainly isn't here in Cameron's Britain!

There's an element of the grass always being greener in all this- the reality must come as an awful shock.

British soldiers? What British soldiers? The Sun was talking about sending the Gurkhas and the racism involved in that piece of reportage just has me reaching for the brain bleach!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That's right. There was some Tory backbencher frothing on Parliament Green about sending in the ghurkas.

They do't like it up 'em, Mr Mainwaring...

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Although why on earth anyone feels they've done anything to require it being placed up 'em is beyond me..........

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Whenever anyone talks about sending in the military I scent fascism...

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

You'n'me both.