Yes, immigrants need homes. So let's move them into Chequers

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday column

Those of us who warned for years
about mass immigration can only grieve now that the things we predicted
are coming true. It is starting – where else? – in the primary schools,
where people are simply having to accept that many, especially in less
well-off areas, will be too full from now on.

Next
it will be housing, which is why Government Ministers are screeching
curses at those who are trying to stop them concreting over the
countryside and turning spacious suburbs into crowded urban quarters.

I
can’t see why those who have saved all their lives to live in pleasant
places should be forced to lose their peace and space, because cynical
politicians left the nation’s door open for ten years and now can’t
close it.

Let the people in
charge set an example – an ‘affordable’ estate in the grounds of
Chequers, and a little development next to each of the many homes of the
Blair Creature would be good.

But
that won’t stop the quiet spread of unofficial shanty towns in areas of
high immigration. How long will councils be able to resist or police
the five-to-a-room overcrowding, and the conversion of garden sheds into
homes, which is the inevitable result of importing hundreds of
thousands of underpaid young men?

They can only afford to accept those wages because they live at a far lower standard of living than the indigenous population.

Then
it will be the NHS, if it isn’t already, with GPs and casualty
departments overwhelmed by numbers, and, of course, the roads and public
transport.

This is a huge change in the lives of British people, unasked for, undeclared, undiscussed. It is only just beginning.

And
so the rest of us will try as best we can to live in harmony in the
overcrowded, low-pay Third World economy which we have had foisted on
us. We know that the migrants themselves are not to blame and are only
trying to better themselves.

Those
who did it, and who still will not act to stop it, are another matter.
As the truth dawns I think the voters will find a way of punishing the
politicians who subjected us to this. The old parties are all complicit.
They all dismissed protest as ‘racism’ and refused to be honest about
the matter. Why should any of them survive?

From
now on, abandon them, and refuse to vote for them. Strip these
unpleasant, sneering careerists of the money  and power that protects
them from the consequences of their own actions. Let them find out in
detail what it is they have done to the rest of us. It will be some
compensation.

When you see Dave like this he's finished!

Poor
old President Hollande, caught by the cameras innocently making silly
faces at a primary school class. He’ll never recover. 

Ed
Miliband has an even worse problem because he always looks awful on TV
or  in photographs. And in modern politics, shallow and trivial as they
are, that’s enough  to destroy a man.

There’s a very
interesting formula which decides whether embarrassing pictures of major
politicians are published. I promise you that there are many such
pictures of David Cameron, far worse than the famous sunburn shots.

As
long as the media are still a bit afraid of him, they won’t get out. As
soon as they’re sure he’s done for, they will. Watch out for it.

How cruel to make maths dunces take the GCSE over and over again. Modern education  is torture precisely because it isn’t tough.

In my prehistoric classrooms, we sat in rows, chanted our tables, our weights and measures and our counties and capitals. 

Our
teachers ranged from the terrifying to  the petrifying. They threw
small objects at  us if we didn’t pay attention. They wrote rude things
on bad work. They made us do it again if we got it wrong. And as a
result, I, an Olympic-standard maths duffer, got an O-level in the
subject, and I am still astonished by (among other things) my French
vocabulary.

These
days, the poor things sit listlessly in undisciplined classrooms, don’t
chant their tables because it violates their human rights, and after
three years of alleged French they have learned nothing beyond
‘Bonjour’.

In education, it’s kind to be cruel.

 
'Humanitarian' war doomed Libya

I
am still baffled as to how bombs are a compassionate response to
atrocities, or how a country that can’t police Manchester can police the
Middle East. And anyway, President Obama has told Washington that his
real plan in Syria is regime change.

Well,
I am no supporter of the Assad  government, despite an, er, mistaken
claim to this effect by the pro-bombing Tory  MP Brooks Newmark in the
Commons, which he has refused to withdraw. But I am worried about who or
what might replace Assad once he’s gone, which must surely be part of
our calculation.

Hardly anyone pays
attention to the outcome of our intervention in Libya, also allegedly
humanitarian. They rejoiced  at the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. But
what happened? Liberated Libya is now a failed state, actually importing
oil because its own oilfields have fallen under the control of lawless
militias.

These are the same
ferocious Islamists who murdered the US ambassador, tried to kill the
British ambassador, and who desecrated a British cemetery from the
Second World War, taking special care to smash the gravestones of Jewish
soldiers. We freed them with our bombs.

Job done, as Mr Blair might say.

 

Doctors are caught offering to abort baby girls because they are girls.

The Crown Prosecution Service refuses to act.

Our enlightened Director of Public Prosecutions seems  to view killing as OK if it’s politically correct.

Assisted suicide, in such people’s minds, is fine. Abortion, to them, is a liberation of modern womanhood.

Getting rid of unwanted girls – though ‘sexist’ – is multicultural. So, the PC pluses outweigh the minuses.

And crime falls,  as fewer and fewer evil acts are crimes any more.

 
Safe cars only breed stupidity

As I ride my bike through modern British traffic,  I observe the rapidly declining standards of driving.

Many drivers are increasingly heedless, selfish and unaware of the danger they run, or of the danger they are to others.

So
I am completely unsurprised by the mad, violent chaos on the Isle of
Sheppey bridge on Thursday, which seems to me to have been  caused
almost entirely  by inconsiderate, thoughtless stupidity.

Were
it not for all those safety devices (which protect car-users from their
own folly but do nothing for pedestrians  or cyclists), many would have
died.