Ashley Mote
Letter to the Editor, Farnham Herald
13 April2013
Your correspondent Cllr Andrew Joy rightly applauds the enthusiastic contribution of migrants from the Commonwealth and other parts of the Far East to the British way of life (letters 12 April). But he chooses to ignore the elephant in the room.
Never in this island’s history have such numbers of people arrived as over the last two decades. We are now one of the most overcrowded places on earth, particularly in the south-east. But the great majority of newcomers are not enthusiastic new Britons, as My Joy would have us believe.
They are from the EU. They now have a right to come here. They are economic and benefit opportunists, and who can blame them? They pour in, tens of thousands a year, in an unstoppable flood, regardless of the huge strains on UK housing, education, health and other essential resources - to say nothing of the high unemployment amongst the indigenous population.
British national identity, so rightly applauded by Mr Joy, is deliberately being diluted by the EU as part of the process of creating a country called Europe governed by unelected bureaucrats.
From January next, this already alarming situation will get much worse. The doors will open to everyone now living in Bulgaria and Romania. Yet these are, essentially, still third-world countries. They are also major sources of criminality. According to The Daily Telegraph a few weeks ago, a third of the entire Romanian population in the UK have been arrested since their arrival.
According to Scotland Yard, 27,725 Romanians had been arrested for offences in London since 2008, including 10 for murder and more than 140 for rape. Only Polish immigrants created more crime although their population in the UK was five times larger. They accounted for 34,905 arrests, including 84 for murder and over 120 for rape. Lithuania, another Eastern European country, came third. Over 18,500 criminals from Lithuania were detained by the Metropolitan Police.
Sir Andrew Green, chairman of Migration Watch UK, was reported as saying: “The extent of this criminality is a real concern for the ending of all immigration controls on Romanians and Bulgarians next year.” But the risks get worse. “The connection between criminality and Islamism is very tight in Europe,” according to Michael Radu, a terrorism analyst at the Foreign Policy Research Institute
In that connection, The Daily Telegraph drew attention to the social and cultural gulf between migrants who involve themselves in the British way of life and those who deliberately do not. By far the most numerous of the latter group are Muslims, who choose to remain largely contained within their own community. The facts also show that, rather than making an economic contribution to the British way of life their impact is negative. Overall, they are a serious drain on the welfare state.
Last year, 75 percent of all Muslim women and 50 percent of all Muslim men in the UK were unemployed - a staggering rise from 13 percent for men and 18 percent for women in 2004. Worse, Muslims were on sick leave more than anyone else, with 24 percent of women and 21 percent of males making claims. Muslims were also the most likely among all religious groups to be living in accommodation rented from a council or housing association (28 percent). Four percent were living rent-free.
With the great majority of the five million Muslims living here last year at British taxpayers expense, the total cost to us was over £12 billion. In just one year. Yet that same community scarcely contributed anything to British wealth creation. Who will be generating the wealth for our economy and our future if we continue to tolerate so many takers instead of makers?
Meanwhile the indigenous population is barely reproducing itself. Stability is 2.1 births per woman. The English are now down to 1.6, yet the Muslim population in the UK is reproducing itself by over four children per woman. Muslims have by far the highest birth rate of all ethnic groups. If the same population growth and birth rate continues as now, by 2030 Britain will have a 40 percent Muslim population. A few years later we could have a Muslim prime minister and the introduction of Islamic sharia law will be on the cards.
Mr Joy should consider the bigger picture when enthusing about migrants. We have huge problems, and we can do nothing about them until we leave the EU and restore control of our borders and our finances.
Ashley Mote
(author OverCrowded Britain)
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Open letter to Damian Hinds, MP for East Hants
12 April 2013
You Really Must Put Cameron Straight
Damian I have read Cameron’s letter to you and all other Tory members.
Not only is incredibly naive, but he has his facts plain wrong on one crucial point.
He says “Around 50% of our trade is with the EU”. NOT TRUE by a country mile. And he must know it.
Export trade (in both directions) is barely 20% of total UK trade.
Of that, less than half is with the EU.
I have pointed out to you before – and EVERY minister and senior civil servant knows it – that the Blue Book DELIBERATELY distorts the figures by including in “trade with Europe” the huge exports to other parts of the world which start their journey by going to Rotterdam and Antwerp for containerisation and onwards shipping.
Why try to suggest otherwise by lying?
Even worse, we have a HUGE permanent trade deficit with the rest of the EU. In terms of trade, they need us far more than we need them.
Why defend this continuous and damaging disadvantage?
He says “We need to be...round the table and having a say in what the rules are”
Does Cameron really expect you to believe that we have choices? One voice in 27? One vote in 27?
We all know the EU has long been an ever-increasing, protectionist, customs union. It is not remotely a free trade area.
Furthermore, acquis communauitaire is a rachet. Once the EU has competence it stays with Brussels. Non-negotiable.
Why should anyone believe/take seriously a prime minister (for heaven sake) who can write such a pitiful letter?
You need to put this pathetic man straight. For all our sakes. He is completely out of his depth.
His present strategy (if you can call it that) is utterly unrealistic on several levels – not least your chances of winning a second term.
You claimed in the local paper this week to have been inspired by Mrs Thatcher.
Now is the time to show it – and start behaving like her!
Ashley Mote
PS: I hope you found my new book A Mote in Brussels’ Eye illuminating
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