Great post in my opinion
@Ponders Revisited
It is just a pity that - because it is not easy to tell the good people from the evil - the whole ethnic group is vulnerable to fear and mistrust.
The same problem was faced by other immigrant communities in the not so distant past.
Irish folk (especially during the Troubles) and the Windrush generation of Black people.
Irish Culture and Caribbean Culture have not destroyed the British way of life.
Granted there are still areas of potential aggravation, such as the badly organised Notting Hill Carnival. But by-and-large we have found ways to co-exist and those other Cultures are gradually blending with our own, rather than taking it over.
Sadly I don't think anything can be done quickly to fix the issue of the thousands of small boat illegal migrants already in the UK.
They will have to be individually processed and either granted asylum or deported. That process will likely take 10 to 15 years at a rough estimate.
I hope that process can be carried through with a more humane touch than the way ICE operates in the US.
But it will not be possible at all unless the boats due to arrive tomorrow, or next month, or next year, are stopped.
And the only way to stop those boats without sinking them, causing massive loss of life, is to intercept them all while still at sea, and make sure those onboard never set foot on British soil.
That will mean a fleet of high speed interceptor vessels & skilled crews, plus a fleet of detention ships (or prison hulks, to use more blunt language). And then eventual re-location to other Countries.
A massive commitment of resources running into £billions.
I have no faith that Nigel Farage and his cabal of disgruntled ex-Tories have the vision or the ability to get the job done.
He talks a good fight, I'll grant him that.
But he has surrounded himself with failures and losers. Tory rejects who were less than useless when they did have power.
In a nuthell, I cannot see how the small boat crossings will ever stop.
People will keep coming, unless they realise that getting into a boat will result in the 100% certainty that they will be imprisoned at sea, or drowned.
The former option being impossibly expensive, and the latter one morally unacceptable.
PS:
Credit and huge respect to the undercover Police officer who infiltrated that terrorist cell who were planning to massacre innocent people at that rally in Manchester. He risked his life to save many others.
I assume the policeman in question is a Muslim himself. I hope he can be protected from possible reprisals.
