So now Germany is telling the spineless Cameron what to do on a referendum.  (Telegraph, 18 Nov).

Cameron looks increasingly like a modern Neville Chamberlain.  Appeasement of the Germans for fear of causing trouble didn’t work the first time and it won’t work this time.

His lack of leadership, and the Tories’ refusal to let us have a referendum on EU withdrawal, shows the true state of Britain’s democracy: non-existent unless you happen to be rich or part of the ruling elite.
It simply suits the bankers and the ruling class to stay in the EU and just let the ordinary British worker and taxpayer suffer the consequences.

As for Germany, it’s the same wolf but in different clothing.  ‘Political union’ was attempted in more direct fashion by a certain little corporal back in the 1930s.

Maybe the Germans learned, after the 2nd military-led attempt failed, that the only way to assert the will of the ‘Ubermensch’ over Europe once and for all was by economic means instead.

Now they have nearly succeeded.

We gave them the money and tools back in 1945 to succeed in defeat. Meanwhile, Britain remained literally in hock to the Americans for the next 50 years and we never really recovered.

What have we got to lose by pulling out of Europe?  Are all EU nations suddenly not going to buy any of our goods and services? Unlikely.  Will all EU banks / businesses default on loans and investments made by the British?  Unlikely.

Meanwhile, we save the many £billions it costs us on EU membership – much of which was wasted on the massive EU grants given to Greece, Spain and the others.

They have had their ‘boom’ over the past 20 years at our expense, and now (by staying in the EU) we would be expected to pay for their ‘bust’ as well. Heads they win, tails we lose.

Get out now.
Stay out… and to hell with the Germans!

Who’da thought it?   The Nasty Party have let their pants fall down to reveal… nothing!

No immigration policy, no controls, no borders – and not a clue.

Home Secretary Teresa ‘Kitten Heels’ May hasn’t even been to see if the UK Border Force is fit for purpose at our ports and airports. Clearly, it isn’t up to doing the job.  But why?  It’s not the fault of the hard-working staff themselves.

IT’S SIMPLY BECAUSE WE DON’T HAVE ENOUGH OF THEM.

It doesn’t take a genius to work out the solution.
First, take the number of incoming travellers arriving per day (a), then work out how many passengers a Passport Control Officer can process each day (b), then divide (b) into (a).
Then you make sure you employ the right number of people to get the job done promptly and efficiently.  How difficult is that?!

Compared to the financial and social disaster of allowing thousands of terrorists, thieves, fraudsters, benefit cheats and their families into the country, the cost of hiring some extra UKBA staff is nothing.

We hear Cameron and the Tories bang on about Civil Service and state sector inefficiency, or blame everything on ‘the mess Labour left us with’, and yet they couldn’t organise a proverbial p**s-up in a brewery.  How long will it take before some Tory-led ‘committee’ decides to throw billions of taxpayer money at hiring a private contractor to do the job?  And will the owner of that contractor be a Tory donor?
Take a good guess.

People voted these idiots into power to play party politics with OUR money.  Are we nuts? Is any politician actually going to DO anything about this mess instead of making the typical empty promises?

For Pete’s sake, complain to your MP and force the government’s hand.   The LibDumbs won’t do it, because they’ll let literally EVERYONE in.

If we don’t stop this nonsense now, we’ll never be able to stop the tide of criminals, terrorists, cheats and scroungers flooding into the country we love.

Multiculturalism isn’t working because we haven’t created the right conditions for it to succeed.

I wish all ethnicities and religions peace and prosperity, but if people come to live here they must fit into our way of life, not we into theirs.   I integrate with immigrants every day: in my job, on the bus, in the supermarket, in my local area of Wandsworth or in the centre of London, and in the hospitals … and unfortunately many of the stereotypes seem to be borne out.

In my work, I see many Indian and other nationalities come here first by themselves, then bringing over their dependants (quite easy under the current visa system), then get pregnant and have more dependants. In addition, they pretend to be students and within a short time they stop attending classes and disappear. They can’t be traced as they have changed address.  They get reported to the UKBA and you never see published statistics on how many are ever traced and deported successfully.   The widespread belief is that the majority are never found and merely join the vast ‘black economy’ in this country.

If any do go through the motions of attending classes, they are often absent through ‘illness’ with scrappy and highly dubious-looking medical certificates from Indian ‘doctors’ or ‘medical centres’ in Wembley or Southall or somewhere similar.   These are only ever produced way after the event when threatened with being reported to the UKBA.  Whereas you and I would be off work for 1 or 2 days with ‘flu or backpain, these people seem to be signed off for a month or more by their ‘doctors’ to get over the slightest illness.

When they do attend, they are totally disinterested in studying and fail dismally. All they want to do is work, and they are supposed to have a 20-hour a week limit (new students now have a limit of 10 hours), but it seems obvious from their attendance patterns that they work longer than the maximum allowed. There are many employers of their own nationality who will flout the law on employing immigrant workers, as it’s cheap labour. Work always takes precedence over their ‘studies’, so they are constantly late for classes or fail to attend regularly unless threatened with being reported.  The whole system of student visas is therefore a joke.

So I go home every day on the bus and all around me there are people not speaking my own language:  Russians, Africans, Indians, Somalis – all life is there.

I go to the supermarket on Saturday in Wandsworth and have to pass through what is now called ‘Southside’.  Without fail, crowds of immigrant families are in the street, or in the mall, dressed in their black robes and with 6 kids for each mother. You usually get 2 or 3 of these families out together, making several groups of a dozen or more, with kids ranging from babies to teens.

They come out of their council flats and walk around without a care in the world – not just on Saturdays, but on any day of the week you may visit the shopping mall.  They always have lots of shopping bags filled with goods from Primark and wherever else they spend their money.  How they get the money and the council flats I can only speculate. They appear to be Somalis, a very distinctive-looking people, so are they ALL asylum-seekers?

I have to go to the hospital occasionally as I have had some health issues as a man approaching sixty.  I’ve worked all my life and now need to use an NHS service that I have been helping to pay  for over the last 45 years.  When I go to the local GP or the hospital, what do I see?  Queues of the same people I meet at work and in the supermarket and in the street:  Indians, Somalis, many other nationalities, but very few of my fellow English citizens by birth.  Certainly the proportion of immigrants in the waiting rooms, as you observe them come and go, is much higher than the immigration statistics would lead you to believe.

What do we have in the UK -  9%… 10% immigrants now?  In the GP’s or the hospital waiting rooms they must represent around 80% of the queue or more. I wonder how much THEY have paid into our tax and National Insurance system.  I can’t help feeling that I have worked all my life to give it away to these people.

I appreciate that some readers have what they consider balanced and fair views about immigration.  As for my own views, I am not a racist and never have been. The colour of someone’s skin is of no consequence whatsoever.

The rich, Tory-voting classes who need cheap foreign labour, will still want this flow of immigrants to continue. Their housing, transport, local communities or healthcare are not affected in the same way as they are for ordinary working people. The mealy-mouthed LibDems wouldn’t dream of picking on immigration as an issue for fear of being called racist. Labour has lost its way and is too scared of anything approaching a working-class policy or manifesto. Heaven forbid, in the age of the Miliblands.

I am not especially patriotic, the ‘refuge of a scoundrel’ and all that, but I do believe that we will lose whatever culture we have if we don’t stop immigration soon.

We need to wake up now.

Thanks to Wikileaks, the power of the internet and the Guardian, we now have some kind of truth about the war in Afghanistan.

A truth that, if we had ever given it more than a moment’s thought in our busy lives, we probably could have guessed for ourselves.  A truth that says more about the state of British democracy than what goes on behind the stories and lies we are fed about a shabby and ill-conceived military campaign.

The expectation of openness or honesty from our elected politicians – and the secret army of faceless, civil servants and Whitehall mandarins who manipulate them -  clearly still has a long way to go before it becomes a reality, if it ever will.     A considerable amount of wool has been pulled over our eyes by introducing a Freedom of Information Act that is simply window dressing and – despite a policy of Open Government – very little has changed in real terms.

We, or rather the politicians, are just going through the motions.  Paying lip service to the notion of a democratic government which is accountable to the people it is supposed to serve.  Theirs remains a world of lies and deceit, of smoke and mirrors, of spin and outright propaganda: not aimed at a terrorist ‘enemy’, but at the ordinary citizens of Britain and America.

The lack of truth is ‘in the interests of national security’, we are told.   However, national security is unlikely to be compromised by information which is months or even years old, and which is already history.    Nor is anyone suggesting that the armed forces’ detailed strategy against our Taliban foes should be given to the newspapers in advance. There is, in any case, enough reportage and hypothesis on Allied tactics in the broadsheets every week. Any Afghan warlord who cares to stump up two quid at his local newsagent can read it for himself.

The politicans miss the point, as usual.  Why do they think we need to know?

It is because our sons and daughters are being killed and our money is being spent by the billion to fight this questionable cause.   We are entitled to more honesty and transparency from our politicians about the reasons for war and the mistakes they have made in waging it – without having to wait to get it from whistleblowers.

Whether it’s good or bad news, we must have the truth.  Only then can we make proper choices about who to elect and who to sack; about what we are prepared to let them to do in the name of our country and what we are not; about whether we want them to build more schools and hospitals for our society, or go to war.

Just give us the truth and let us – the people – decide, through the ballot box, by referendum, gathering a petition or by whatever other means we have at our disposal in order to make our voice heard.

…but of course, that’s what they are afraid of.