Why Boris is Leave

The Mayor of London explains his reasoning in The Telegraph, and for someone who reportedly vacillated on the matter, it is a surprisingly powerful and comprehensive case:

I am a European. I lived many years in Brussels. I rather love the old place. And so I resent the way we continually confuse Europe – the home of the greatest and richest culture in the world, to which Britain is and will be an eternal contributor – with the political project of the European Union. It is, therefore, vital to stress that there is nothing necessarily anti-European or xenophobic in wanting to vote Leave on June 23.

And it is important to remember: it isn’t we in this country who have changed. It is the European Union. In the 28 years since I first started writing for this paper about the Common Market – as it was then still known – the project has morphed and grown in such a way as to be unrecognisable, rather as the vast new Euro palaces of glass and steel now lour over the little cobbled streets in the heart of the Belgian capital.

When I went to Brussels in 1989, I found well-meaning officials (many of them British) trying to break down barriers to trade with a new procedure – agreed by Margaret Thatcher – called Qualified Majority Voting. The efforts at harmonisation were occasionally comical, and I informed readers about euro-condoms and the great war against the British prawn cocktail flavour crisp. And then came German reunification, and the panicked efforts of Delors, Kohl and Mitterrand to “lock” Germany into Europe with the euro; and since then the pace of integration has never really slackened.

As new countries have joined, we have seen a hurried expansion in the areas for Qualified Majority Voting, so that Britain can be overruled more and more often (as has happened in the past five years). We have had not just the Maastricht Treaty, but Amsterdam, Nice, Lisbon, every one of them representing an extension of EU authority and a centralisation in Brussels. According to the House of Commons library, anything between 15 and 50 per cent of UK legislation now comes from the EU; and remember that this type of legislation is very special.

It is unstoppable, and it is irreversible – since it can only be repealed by the EU itself. Ask how much EU legislation the Commission has actually taken back under its various programmes for streamlining bureaucracy. The answer is none. That is why EU law is likened to a ratchet, clicking only forwards. We are seeing a slow and invisible process of legal colonisation, as the EU infiltrates just about every area of public policy. Then – and this is the key point – the EU acquires supremacy in any field that it touches; because it is one of the planks of Britain’s membership, agreed in 1972, that any question involving the EU must go to Luxembourg, to be adjudicated by the European Court of Justice.

It was one thing when that court contented itself with the single market, and ensuring that there was free and fair trade across the EU. We are now way beyond that stage. Under the Lisbon Treaty, the court has taken on the ability to vindicate people’s rights under the 55-clause “Charter of Fundamental Human Rights”, including such peculiar entitlements as the right to found a school, or the right to “pursue a freely chosen occupation” anywhere in the EU, or the right to start a business.

These are not fundamental rights as we normally understand them, and the mind boggles as to how they will be enforced. Tony Blair told us he had an opt-out from this charter.

Alas, that opt-out has not proved legally durable, and there are real fears among British jurists about the activism of the court. The more the EU does, the less room there is for national decision-making….

We have given so much to the world, in ideas and culture, but the
most valuable British export and the one for which we are most famous is
the one that is now increasingly in question: parliamentary democracy –
the way the people express their power.

This is a
once-in-a-lifetime chance to vote for real change in Britain’s relations
with Europe. This is the only opportunity we will ever have to show
that we care about self-rule. A vote to Remain will be taken in Brussels
as a green light for more federalism, and for the erosion of democracy.

In the next few weeks, the views of people like me will matter
less and less, because the choice belongs to those who are really
sovereign – the people of the UK. And in the matter of their own
sovereignty the people, by definition, will get it right.

The choice facing the British people is a straightforward one: will you be sovereign or will you be slaves?

This is one of the great moments of our lifetime, comparable to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. One of the great nations of history is deciding whether to extinguish itself or not. If there is to always be an England, then England must vote Out.


Burning down the house

If the German authorities don’t stop aiding and abetting the invasion, I suspect they’re going to start finding themselves locked in the buildings before they are set on fire:

A crowd is reported to have cheered as a building designated to house migrants in Germany was burnt out in a suspected arson.

The blaze in the town of Bautzen early this morning caused serious damage to the former hotel which was being converted.

Cops claim onlookers tried to prevent firefighters from tackling the blaze.

Officers said members of the crowd took “unashamed delight” in watching the fire.

Two drunken men were arrested after they refused to leave the scene, the BBC reports.

The converted hotel was supposed to house 300 migrants…. In a further sign of anti-migrant sentiment, police in the Brandenburg
region are investigating the distribution of leaflets urging “absolute
resistance” against “foreigner invasion”.

If the government won’t resist foreign invasion, then the people have no choice but to do it themselves. The arsonists aren’t the criminals, the quisling authorities are.

Nationalists who burn down migrant hostels are no more guilty of committing any crime than a combat engineer who blows up a bridge or a vehicle with a suspected IED.


BoREXIT is go

The Mayor of London declares his support for reclaiming British sovereignty:

Boris Johnson tonight declared he will campaign for Britain to leave the EU because it would save money and regain control for the British Parliament.

The Mayor of London electrified the EU referendum campaign by ending months of speculation and dismissing David Cameron’s EU deal as insignificant, saying he could not turn down this ‘once in a lifetime’ chance to quit the EU.

And he told the Prime Minister he was making the announcement by text just nine minutes before he appeared on live TV outside his north London home.

Mr Cameron was said to be ‘absolutely furious’ with the Mayor of London’s decision and earlier today he made a last ditch attempt to persuade him to join the In campaign by warning against ‘linking arms with Nigel Farage and George Galloway’.

Good on him. Johnson not only just ensured that he will become the next Prime Minister of Great Britain, he just significantly increased the probability that the title will actually mean something.

If you are British, vote BREXIT. Vote leave. Vote out. Escape the Fourth Reich while you can.


They may want to rethink the curriculum

What exactly are they teaching in those “how to treat women” courses?:

A teenage Afghan immigrant has been charged with raping a female worker at an asylum seekers’ centre in Belgium, authorities said, prompting outrage from anti-immigrant politicians.

The 16-year-old Afghan asylum seeker followed a worker from a catering firm into the basement and raped her at the centre in Menen, near the French border, prosecutors said….

“Two weeks ago we gave a course about how to treat women in Flanders and the boy was present there,” the spokeswoman said.

They might as reasonably teach them calculus and astrophysics for all the good it is going to do them. Post-secular Europe can’t even appeal to basic morality.

Immigration is rape culture. Immigration is culture rape.


Bulgaria defends its border

It’s about time Europe started defending its borders. Think about how many lives would have been saved if the Greek and Italian navies had simply sunk the first 20 boats that attempted to cross the Mediterranean:

An Afghan man was killed after police officers fired warning shots during scuffles on the border with Turkey, when a bullet is said to have ricocheted, the Guardian reports.

The man was shot trying to cross into Bulgaria from Turkey late on Thursday and died on his way to hospital, the interior ministry has said.

“A big group of illegal migrants attempted to enter Bulgaria from Turkey. One man suffered a gunshot wound in the incident and died on the way to hospital,” an interior ministry spokeswoman told AFP.

The incident happened near the south-eastern Bulgarian town of Sredets on Thursday evening, she said, adding that the dead man was from Afghanistan.

If the migrants are not sent back soon, many more of them are going to die this summer. The EU is cracking apart and Europe’s sympathy is entirely tapped out.


The end of the EU

The abomination appears to be in its death throes.

A new German plan to impose “haircuts” on holders of eurozone sovereign debt risks igniting an unstoppable European bond crisis and could force Italy and Spain to restore their own currencies, a top adviser to the German government has warned.

“It is the fastest way to break up the eurozone,” said Professor Peter Bofinger, one of the five “Wise Men” on the German Council of Economic Advisers.

“A speculative attack could come very fast. If I were a politician in Italy and I was confronted by this sort of insolvency risk I would want to go back to my own currency as fast as possible, because that is the only way to avoid going bankrupt,” he told The Telegraph.

The German Council has called for a “sovereign insolvency mechanism” even though this overturns the financial principles of the post-war order in Europe, deeming such a move necessary to restore the credibility of the “no-bailout” clause in the Maastricht Treaty. Prof Bofinger issued a vehement dissent.

The plan has the backing of the Bundesbank and most recently the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schauble, who usually succeeds in imposing his will in the eurozone. Sensitive talks are under way in key European capitals, causing shudders in Rome, Madrid and Lisbon.

Deflation is killing the bond markets; governments require an ever-growing inflation in order to pay off their debts in cheaper money. That’s why interest rates have been driven negative, but it’s a fool’s game because the problem continues to expand the longer the day of reckoning is delayed.

Although complete collapse is unlikely, between the migrant crisis, the debt crisis, and Brexit, it’s possible that 2016 will see the first European nations break free of the Fourth Reich.


Trump is the Great Nationalist

This is why Europeans across the continent are hoping to see Donald Trump win the US presidency:

 “What’s happening in Europe can lead to its collapse. It’s dramatic what Merkel has allowed to happen, this flood,” he said, adding that the “consequences” were being felt around the continent.

“If we don’t deal with the situation competently and firmly, then yes, it’s the end of Europe,” he predicted.

Stopping short of predicting civil war, he said the continent had “real revolutions ahead of you”, adding that Europe “won’t be spared” a 9/11-style disaster.

“My German friends no longer know where they are. They can’t believe their eyes about what is happening…they’re desperate,” he claimed.

He also warned that if immigration could not be dealt with “in an intelligent, rapid and energetic manner,” then Europe was headed for “more than just upheaval, on a scale you can’t even imagine.”

As for France, Mr Trump warned: “Unfortunately, France isn’t what it was, nor Paris”. The pro-gun candidate claimed that the Paris terrorist attack of November 13 that killed 130 could have been thwarted if the French had been allowed to bear arms to defend themselves, saying he would have done so.

At the Bataclan (concert hall where 90 died), he said: “The only people who had weapons were the killers…it was ‘open bar’ for a massacre.”

He added: “I always carry a weapon on me. If I’d been at the Bataclan or one of those bars, I would have opened fire. I would have perhaps died, but at least I would have taken a shot. The worst thing is the powerlessness to respond to those who want to kill you,” he said.

They don’t get a vote, but I think Trump just won over the French and German people. And remember, Trump is married to a European, so he understands the continent much better than most American politicians.

And as for the Americans, notice that he didn’t say his bodyguards carried a gun. He does. Not only that, but he is advocating for carry laws in Europe. I expect he is considerably more trustworthy on the 2nd Amendment than any of the Republican establishment candidates.


Microcosm and harbinger

Migrants are lowering Germany’s average intelligence, to say nothing of their educational standards:

According to a detailed report in Sueddeutsche, more and more German families are switching their child’s schooling because of the presence of more and more migrant children who often disrupt class and bully native Germans.

The article tells the story of a typical German family (names have been changed) and a typical German father who like many is eager to prove how tolerant and multicultural he and his family are. His daughter is placed in a school with a majority of the pupils being non-Germans.

Yet by the end of his daughter’s first year in the school the father starts getting concerned the school is giving his daughter special treatment. It is not until he investigates that he realizes she is special because she is the last native German left, the others having one by one transferred to different schools….

German Federal Interior Minister Thomas Maiziere did nothing to calm these fears when back in November he said current school standards would need to be dropped to help integrate more migrants.

As Red Eagle and I showed in Cuckservative, immigration is increasingly reducing the West’s IQ as well as its collective capabilities. If you want to know why society seems to be getting dumber, it’s because it actually is.

The terrible thing about this article is the way in which the father of the beleaguered daughter is still trying to virtue-signal; he’s fine with multiculturalism, just not too much multiculturalism.

But multicultures always become monocultures in the end, as is already the case with his daughter’s school.


Musings on Immigration IV

This is the final section of the four-part guest post.

Conclusion
If there is one thing that can be said in faint praise of Barrack
Obama, it is his unerring capability to escape the consequences of
gaffes that would have destroyed a lesser politician. Most recently,
his comparison of Syrian refugees to the pilgrims on the Mayflower
provoked derision and disbelief in equal measure. By welcoming
the Europeans to their shores and helping them to survive the first
hellish winter, the Native Americans signed their own death warrants.
There was no mass resistance to the immigration/invasion until it
was far too late.
Seriously, if you happened to be a Native American with access to a
time machine, what advice would you give the Indians? Help the
settlers or kill every last one of the white devils?
And that is the problem facing Europe now.
The lesson we have failed to learn, time and time again, is that
introducing large numbers of people who THINK differently from us to
our nations is asking for trouble. These people are not blank
slates. Young men raised in a society where women are regarded as
chattel, as little more than property, are unlikely to adjust well to
Western society. Nor do they understand the concept of the ‘iron
fist in the velvet glove,’ coming as they do from a society which
functions on the concept of ‘iron fist in the iron glove.’ Such
people regard such concepts as a sign of weakness, a sign that they
can (and should) go further. Arab society, in many ways, is based on
bullying. One is either the bully or the bullied.
Getting through to these people requires – demands – stern measures.
Gentle rebukes are meaningless because they don’t use gentle
rebukes themselves. Forbearance and tolerance is nothing more than a
sign of weakness.
There is an old saying that insists that fish have no word for water,
because they swim in it. That is certainly true of European Culture.
It is all around Europeans such as myself, yet it goes unnoticed
because we are too used to it. But because we are unaware of our
culture, we fail to comprehend that others might have a different
culture – or that defending our culture means not submitting to their
culture. Tolerance of what one may do in private, among consenting
adults, is one thing; tolerating the intolerable is quite another.
For all its flaws, and it has many, I LIKE Western Civilization.
Life is good here. We do not oppress women in any systematic manner.
Homosexuals can be homosexual without anyone giving a damn; they are
certainly not hunted down and thrown off tall buildings. People can
change their religion without being brutally murdered. There is a
great deal of freedom of choice, from everything like movies to
online porn! None of this is true of Arab counties. Women are
slaves, homosexuals are thrown off buildings, converts are killed …
The West has forgotten that it needs to draw lines. There is a
strong difference between anything done by consenting adults in
private and anything forced on an individual who does not
consent. The West has lost its ability to see that these lines
exist, instead making excuses for people who are ‘different.’
Pre-1945 Europe was a harsh and intolerant place in a great many
ways, but post-Cold War Europe is far too permissive. And, in not
standing up for its values, it has displayed a weakness that merely
attracts bullies. It has become far too permissive for its own good.
Above all, perhaps, the West has forgotten that the world is a cold
and brutal place. The years of peace enjoyed by Western Europe, held
in place by the nuclear deterrent and the American security
guarantee, was not a natural condition. If one happens to truly
desire peace, then prepare for war.
There are many arguments put forward by people who don’t see the
situation the way I do.
One chain of thought suggests that Germany needs younger immigrants;
the German population is growing older and the replacement babies are
not there. This argument hangs on the assumption that Mohammad will
be willing to work his ass off to keep Fritz in the retirement home,
a very dangerous assumption. Why should he? And even if Mohammad is
willing to work, can he? The vast majority of migrants have very
little in the way of useful skills.
Seriously, if Germany had wanted migrants, it would have been better
to pick and chose from people who could actually work.
Another suggests that the birth-rate among migrants is falling too,
that the nightmare of being overwhelmed by hordes of barbarians is
never going to materialise. I do not have any data, but I suspect
this isn’t particularly accurate. Arabs take pride in large
families. It will take at least two generations of assimilation, assuming that it happens at all, before birth-rates start to fall
significantly. That will be more than long enough to tip the
demographic balance squarely in their favor.
Indeed, given what tends to happen if there are large numbers of
migrants, I would be very surprised if the birth-rates fell at all.
A third argument suggests that we – Europe – have a duty, in line
with international law, to take refugees.
I am not an expert on international law, but it is, quite simply, unenforceable. No one can do more
than wag their fingers at Merkel if she decided to refuse sanctuary
to any further migrants, then start deporting the ones already in
Germany. International agreements were designed to prevent another
Holocaust, the destruction of a largely-inoffensive minority, not
force states to commit suicide by accepting large numbers of people
from a very offensive culture. There are times when keeping one’s
agreements is a good thing – a reputation for breaking them makes it
harder to make agreements in future – but this is not one of them.
If Merkel is unwilling or unable to recognise this, the next
government certainly will.
It is perhaps the greatest irony of the whole affair that agreements
made in the recognition that we – the West – failed to prevent a
genocide on a truly staggering scale may lead directly to another
genocide.
I am not sanguine about the future. Europe is facing a major crisis
at precisely the moment when it is psychologically, and perhaps
physically, unfit to handle it. Governments are increasingly under
siege by their own populations, who are demanding change, and facing
the threat of the EU coming apart once and for all. Fringe parties
that may want a more final solution to the migrant crisis ate gaining
in power as people lose faith in the elites. The rule of law is
crumbling. Violence is rising on the streets as people strive to
defend themselves against the migrant threat. Britain leaving the EU
in 2016 might merely be the first nail in its coffin.
Winter is coming.

Just wait

There is a lot of anger boiling just beneath the surface all across Europe. A LOT of anger that is simply waiting for an excuse to unleash itself. And keep this incident in Sicily in mind if you think that age is the primary determinant of combat effectiveness.

You’ll notice that no one on-board the bus lifted a finger to stop the driver, or even urge him to stop. That, in a microcosm, is what is the most likely outcome of the migrant crisis in Europe.

“That’s how you handle these freaking illegals who wants to come over and think they going to come over and violate your rights!”