CARSWELL DROPS UKIP BOMBSHELL !

On the day when Tory MP Douglas Carswell has announced that he's resigning his seat, switching to UKIP and will stand in the consequent by-election for his new party, it's also been announced that the government has failed miserably in its efforts to exert any control over net immigration.

Largely in response to the perceived threat from UKIP, and what seems like years ago, Cameron and his cronies told us that controlling immigration was a 'number 1' priority. They promised that they'd reduce the annual figure from hundreds of thousands to mere tens of thousands by the end of the current parliament. Needless to say they are destined to miss their target by the proverbial 'country mile'. In fact, the latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics show that immigration in the 2013/14 year actually increased by some 40%, rising to 243,000 from 175,000 in the previous year. Apparently, two-thirds of the increase is attributable to EU citizens including thousands of Romanians and Bulgarians; we were, of course, previously told that fears of an influx from these countries were unfounded - more government lies and propaganda. Worse still, it's also been reported that over 25% of births in England and Wales in the same year were to mothers who were themselves born overseas.

Cameron and his like have, and are, presiding over a shocking and frightening change in our nation. Immigration in recent years has resulted in parts of our country now being predominantly foreign, with a huge number of people now living here who have no allegiance to the country or its culture; many of these either cannot speak English at all or use it only when they have no choice. The rapid rise in the number of such people, which will very soon be quite independent of immigrant numbers, will lead, in the near future to permanent changes which seemed inconceivable only a handful of years ago.

Is it any wonder that Mr Carswell has said that he's had enough of the Conservative Party and its leader ? Today, he's said that he did not believe that Cameron was "serious about the change we need" in Europe; can anyone deny that he is 100% correct in his assessment ? Exactly what Cameron and his pals, in all 3 of the main parties, think they've been doing in recent times, the truth is that they've been destroying a once great nation. Whether UKIP would be able to make any difference is a moot point but it must be worth giving them a chance; they can't make things any worse and they might just make them better.

JUNCKER SIGNALS TIME TO LEAVE FOR UK.

I have yet to find anyone who voted for the 'European People's Party' though it seems that this was the winner of the recent European Union elections. As a result, the leader of this unknown party is expected to become President of the European Commission in the near future.

Jean-Claude Juncker is a career politician from Luxembourg who wants closer union between the member states; in fact, he'd probably be happiest with the creation of a United States of Europe. Shockingly, it seems that most national leaders support the election of this man to the 'top job' on the spurious bases that his 'Party' 'won' the election and the European Parliament has proposed him. Almost no one seems to want to dig a bit deeper.

There is actually no such thing as the 'European People's Party', it is simply a collection of national parties which have come together for the purpose of having a degree of power in the European Parliament. NO ONE voted for the EPP or, outside of Luxembourg, for its leader, Juncker, and yet he, from nowhere, is the man with the power. If Juncker gets the job, the chance of any meaningful reform of this backward looking and moribund socialist experiment in mediocrity is pretty well zero.

For once, David Cameron is doing what he should and is opposing this lunacy, though his chances of success are small. Already, a mix of national leaders, including the all-powerful Mrs Merkel, have expressed support for Juncker, which surely should tell us which way the European wind is blowing. Most European leaders want more integration, regardless of the wishes of their populations, and will push the project forward come what may. For Cameron and the few who share his views, as well as for the millions who voted for anti-EU parties in May, it's a 2-fingered salute.

Undoubtedly, the time has come. Whatever the other states do, the United Kingdom should now start to withdraw from this bureaucratic nightmare. The reforms which Cameron says he wants, and will negotiate for, will never come and the only route left is the door marked 'Exit'. Merkel, Juncker and their friends don't believe this is either a probable or possible outcome and so are pressing ahead with their federalisation agenda; Cameron's trump card is that he could, at least, suspend elements of British membership, withdrawing from key European activities until the rest see sense. If they prefer not to, then the next steps would be obvious and inevitable. Get out and leave them to their own devices.

SALMOND'S PLANS UNRAVEL.

As the debate over Scottish independence gathers pace, it's clear that the plans of megalomaniac Alex Salmond are unravelling.

Last week, George Osborne made it clear that an independent Scotland would be just that - independent. He ruled out Salmond's plan for a sterling currency union and was backed up in this stance by the principle financial representatives of the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties as well as by the top civil servant in the Treasury.

Next, the current president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, appeared on television on Sunday and stated fairly categorically that an independent Scotland would have to apply for membership of the EU but could well be disappointed. Oh, Lordy, Lordy !

A cornerstone of Salmond's attempt to become Prime Minister, President or even King, of Scotland has been his constant claim that independence would change very little; the only real change would be to free it from the unwanted and hated attentions of the government in Westminster. According to Salmond, an independent Scotland would retain the Queen as head of state (though no mention of what would happen once she is gone), would retain sterling as its currency in a currency union with the remains of the UK, and would still be a member of the EU. It is now clear that at least 2 of these claims have 'feet of clay'.

Whatever the people who live in Scotland, for they are the only ones with a vote, decide in September there'll be ructions. If it's a vote for independence, expect a lot of whingeing and whining from the people once they realise the true implications of their choice; if it's a vote to remain in the UK, expect Salmond and his mates to be back arguing for the so-called 'Devo-max', in other words, effective independence within the UK. The second of these would undoubtedly lead to considerable unhappiness in England as Scottish members of the Westminster parliament would continue to tell the English what to do while Scotland was not affected by their decisions.

Ho-hum ! Exciting times ahead.

IMMIGRATION SET TO SPIRAL AGAIN.

The organisation 'Migration Watch' has awoken to the potential dangers of vast numbers of Romanians and Bulgarians invading the UK once restrictions on their movements are lifted next year. Being members of the EU, their citizens will have the right to travel anywhere in the EU area without restriction and will be entitled to everything that the already settled populations of every country receives.

 

For the UK this will mean, according to 'Migration Watch', something like 50,000 people from these countries coming to the UK every year for at least the first 5 years of free movement; they will be entitled to free access to the NHS, free education for their children, housing, employment and benefits in exactly the same way as are all existing citizens, regsardless of the fact that they will not have paid a single penny in and quite possibly will be sending money 'home' as fast as they can.

 

That this situation is wrong is obvious. That successive UK governments have allowed it to develop is shocking and disgraceful. Governments whose first priority is to safeguard their own population seem to have gone out of their way to create a situation in which they've done exactly the opposite; we could now be heading towards a repeat of the 'Polish' problem which occurred a few years ago and which has led to Poles now being a very significant group in our society.

 

Inevitably, the ministerial response to this issue has been to ignore it. Instead of answering the concerns expresses by 'Migration Watch', they simply say that 'calculations are difficult' and 'the Home Office is working to cut net immigration'. This is no more than meaningless rhetoric and is insulting to those who elected them; these people are paid extremely well to deal with 'difficult calculations' and they and their predecessors have been 'working hard to cut immigration' since the 1970s, with very little success.

 

Surely the time has now come when our government has to cry 'Enough ! Thus far and no further !'.