Toby on Tuesday

'The Canterbury Tales'

The last Archbishop of Canterbury to express his faith in strong, clear language, unhedged with sophistry and politically correct equivocation, was George Carey.   He was Archbishop from 1991-2002.   And it is not surprising that he has called for a “Brexodus”, in which the British people find the promised land even if a time in the wilderness must be endured.   And in an article of great importance he writes, “We are an island people, proud of our heritage and history.   We have been generous, happy to share our riches with newcomers on the understanding that they own our history and share our values.   Yet there is now huge pressure on our population, due to an unasked-for experiment in uncontrolled immigration that has seen millions added to the population of the UK in the past two decades.   We now have no choice but to take back control of our borders.”   And Archbishop Carey’s warning takes on a new urgency after the revelation that for years the Government has been deliberately falsifying the true number of migrants coming into Britain, all with access to our buckling public services.

 

It is now clear that the anecdotal figure of around a million new arrivals a year into the UK is correct, yet our public services have been planned around falsified official figures.   For it has been revealed that the Home Office has deliberately excluded “short-term migrants”, those supposedly planning to stay in Britain for less than a year, from the numbers.   Put simply, the official figures state that just over a million migrants came here from the EU between 2011 and 2015.   Yet in the same period 2,234,000 new National Insurance numbers were issued to EU nationals.   And the Government has finally conceded that the discrepancy is due to the exclusion from the statistics of those claiming to stay here for less than a year.   Last year, 800,000 EU citizens arrived here, so if you add some 200,000 non-EU arrivals then the figure of an annual population increase of around a million is correct.  And this figure can only grow exponentially as the EU expands to take in all those unstable and impoverished countries to its South and East.

 

Last week I wrote about the EU’s decision to offer visa-free travel to nearly 130 million citizens of Turkey, Kosovo, Georgia and Ukraine, as a prelude to their full membership of the project.   Those at the top of our Government are clearly determined to see Britain in a political union with all of these, so we should at least try to learn something of them before 23rd June.   President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey, with its population of nearly 80 million, is plainly the most worrying.   He is an infinitely determined man who is using the threat of uncontrolled migration to hold Berlin’s feet to the fire.   When mayor of Istanbul, he was imprisoned for inciting religious hatred by reciting these words at a rally:

 

The mosques are our barracks,

The domes our helmets,

The minarets our bayonets,

And the faithful our soldiers...”

 

Erdogan is also a patient man who is now President of his country, on which his grip is tightening.    And, despite the warning from the good King Abdullah of Jordan that “The fact that terrorists are going to Europe is part of Turkish policy...Turkey keeps getting a slap on the hand, but they are let off the hook”, on 4th May Turkish became an official EU language.   The global elites who are pressing for a Remain vote on 23rd June have their bodyguards and their drivers, their personal security and their protection.   The ordinary men and women of Britain do not.  Recently, Sir Richard Dearlove, former head of the Secret Intelligence Service, declared “Brexit would bring two potentially important security gains:  the ability to dump the European Convention on Human Rights – remember the difficulty of extraditing the extremist Abu Hamza of Finsbury Park Mosque – and, more importantly, greater control over immigration from the European Union.”   For the sake of our children and grandchildren, we must all take to heart the advice both of Sir Richard and of the truly excellent Archbishop Carey who, although his language is plain, clearly speaks in St. Paul’s words with “the tongues of men and of angels!”

 

Until next Tuesday!

 

Toby