Peter Hill
WE CAN build £3billion aircraft carriers with the firepower to wipe out whole countries (well, when the strike planes eventually arrive) and our satellites can send pilotless drones to kill enemies in the remotest places but neither Britain’s nor any other security force can seemingly prevent people living on their doorstep from driving vehicles into innocent passers-by.
As with many similar attacks, it is emerging that some of those involved in the Barcelona atrocity were “on the radar” but perhaps not making enough noise to warrant arrest. Our extremely liberal regimes mean that terrorists have to make a very big noise before police feel able to intervene.
But we do not help ourselves. Quite the opposite. Men with North African connections have been involved in most of the massacres, precisely the migrants for whom European nations including Britain have set up a free ferry service to facilitate their journey here. We are making it so easy for Islamic State to send murderers into our midst. They must be laughing at us.
Politicians will say these monsters will never win, that we have faced and overcome much worse threats, but these are excuses for not tackling the enemy head-on because to do so would be to point the finger at specific ethnic groups. Our leaders appear to fear accusations of racism far more than they value the lives of their citizens. q IF YOU doubt that, consider the case of MP Sarah Champion who has been forced to resign from the Labour Party because she said it was mainly Pakistani men who were involved in the abuse and rape of young white girls. Her claim is perfectly true but instead of acknowledging that there is a big problem that needs action, her bosses prefer to fudge the issue by suggesting the fault is hers.
Pity the vulnerable young girls who will be victims of society’s timorous attitude towards racial issues. q I AM completely with the parish council of East Budleigh, Devon, which has fenced off a football pitch because dog mess was fouling the players. The decision has made council members public enemies with hostile villagers trolling them and even issuing threats. Why don’t they turn their wrath against the rogue dog owners who have persistently let their pets mess on the grass?
Please don’t think I am against dogs. I have enjoyed their companionship in the past but there is no right to let them befoul public places. It is only common decency to clean up properly after your dog. Everyone knows this but in every corner there are a few sly culprits who wilfully refuse to comply.
That is why sometimes good fences are necessary to make good neighbours. q PRINCE HARRY has been collecting his American girlfriend Meghan Markle from the airport Tarmac to save her the bother of going through passport control, it is reported. It seems there are a few benefits to being a prince, despite all his moaning. If there is one thing we British hate it is a queue-jumper. q JEREMY CORBYN has been up to his old trick of making daft promises. The Labour leader says: “We will develop the jobs, skills and industries of the future through an investment approach, supported by our National Transformation Fund and a Welsh development bank… blah, blah.”
What this means is that he will turn Britain into a replica of Venezuela, which despite having huge oil and gas reserves has been transformed by socialism into a starving hellhole tyranny. It is no exaggeration to say that the British people need a Corbyn government like we need cancer. q COMMONWEALTH citizens are demanding the same rights to live and work in the UK as EU citizens after Brexit. They can see that our weak negotiating position is leading to exceptionally lax controls and naturally as our long-standing allies they feel they deserve at least equality with foreigners.
As home secretary, Theresa May presided over record immigration, so how does she propose to deal with an even bigger influx?
I’ll tell you: nothing will be done because the Border Force is neither equipped nor inclined to limit the numbers entering the country and following them up to see they leave when their visas are up.
The purblind oligarchy that runs Britain is convinced mass immigration is both necessary and good. As for the opinions of ordinary people their attitude is: “Talk to the hand ’cos the face ain’t listenin’.’” q AN UNNAMED mother is advertising for a “highly qualified” nanny for her four children aged from two to 15. The pay is £100,000 a year and the successful candidate will enjoy private jets and the use of a Porsche and be prepared to flit between London, Cape Town, Barbados and Atlanta at a moment’s notice.
My reaction is the same as Daniel Craig’s when asked just after finishing the last Bond film whether he would do another. I would rather slit my wrists than be at the beck and call of this spoilt woman and her brats. Sisyphus had a nicer job. q SHOPPERS are to be given a choice of milk from cows kept inside or those allowed to graze in fields for a bit. Bring back our old milkman who poured milk brimming with golden cream into our jug from churns on his horse-drawn cart.