London’s sudden vibrancy explained

Posted by Guessedworker on Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:09.

Each time I journey through my capital city I find myself shocked by the quantity of aliens I see.  There is no doubt in my mind that this has been an extraordinarily sudden and recent development.  Before 1997 there were, of course, far too many immigrants around.  But nothing like what I see today.

I have it on unimpeachable authority that, until this year, the government had no idea how many of our, of course, always vibrant new countrymen were here illegally.  Too many of the leading demographers couldn’t be trusted by the Home Office because they were associated with the stirling MigrationWatch.  When, finally, ministers could commission one who wasn’t, they found themselves staring at a June 2005 report giving a:-

... best estimate of 430,000 but the number could be between 310,000 and 570,000.

The Tories claim the estimate shows an immigration shambles and say it should have been released during the election.

... The Home Office estimate does not include asylum seekers whose claims are being processed, or who are appealing against a refusal.

It was produced by taking the numbers of foreign-born people living in the UK recorded in the 2001 Census and subtracting the estimated number of legal immigrants.

Home Office officials say they have sought to take into account the fact that some illegal immigrants may not have filled in their census forms.

Immigration Minister Tony McNulty said the figures were a “best guess”.

“By its very nature, it is impossible to quantify accurately, and that remains the case,” he said.

 

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The unbearable blandness of being … a Tory moderniser

Posted by Guessedworker on Monday, 10 October 2005 22:18.

David Cameron, the young lion of the left of the Conservative Party … and the centre … and everywhere, really, where desperate men dream, has spokenAnd he has written.  So there is no longer any cause for doubt about what this blank-faced, almost smart, tolerably personable font of ambition stands for.  Besides himself, of course.  We have been told.

We have, in fact, been told this:-

Our task now is to move the argument forward: to show how a changed Conservative Party will offer an attractive alternative programme at the next election.

To be attractive, our programme must be balanced, compassionate and modern: balanced in the sense of improving the quality of life as well as creating prosperity; compassionate in the sense of helping people in Britain and the world who are least able to help themselves; modern in the sense of recognising the challenges of today’s Britain and offering effective solutions. And our programme must be based on optimism: trusting people and giving them the responsibility and the power to do the right thing for their families and their communities.

Oh dear.  Changed.  Attractive.  The man has been thinking about change and attraction.  As if the electoral angst of politicians hadn’t done enough to change Conservatism and repel people already.

What, young lion, is the history of post-Reform Conservatism but the failed effort to adapt to the sinking game of One-Man-One-Vote democracy and a liberal polity?

 

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Citizens of what? Pacifia?

Posted by Guest Blogger on Monday, 10 October 2005 11:40.

A month or two ago, I warned of plans to merge Australia, New Zealand, PNG and a dozen smaller island nations into a Pacific Union. These plans have now been taken significantly further. The Australian Labor Party, one of the two major political parties here, has

released a policy paper

setting out the design of what they call a Pacific Community.

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Segregation the big idea with Black Canadians

Posted by Guessedworker on Sunday, 09 October 2005 23:11.

Yesterday, MR reader Ed Derbyshire sent me a Toronto Star article about a truly surreal response from leading black activists in Toronto to the wave of gun crime in the city.

“We know what we need. We live it. We attend the funerals. We deal with the drop-outs and the children expelled from school.  As it stands now, our communities are, in many ways, being destroyed.”

Gun deaths have ravaged Toronto’s black community more than ever this summer.  Out of more than 60 homicides this year, a record 41 have involved a firearm.  Black community leaders say “90 per cent” have involved blacks.

Wow, you’re thinking.  They’ve understood.  Finally.  What a tragedy it’s taken so many lost and broken lives to drive the point home.

And

, stone me, they’re even talking about segregation!

But no.  Not really.  Reading on we discover that:-

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Imagine

Posted by Guest Blogger on Sunday, 09 October 2005 12:37.

I have always found John Lennon’s Imagine, his ode to peace and love ... well, odious.

“Imagine there’s no countries” the song implores us, and then “Imagine no possessions, / I wonder if you can, / No need for greed or hunger, / a brotherhood of man, / Imagine all the people / Sharing all the world ... “

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Right on but nothing left among the Singaporean Chinese

Posted by Guessedworker on Saturday, 08 October 2005 10:08.

Yesterday Reuters and AP broke the story of two Singaporean Chinese bloggers jailed for posting racist remarks about minority Malays.

Benjamin Koh, 27, was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment while Nicholas Lim, 25, was fined and jailed for a day, both for posting comments on their personal websites, or blogs, attacking the city-state’s mostly-Muslim ethnic Malay community.

The two faced up to three years jail or fines of up to S$5,000 for violating laws under Singapore’s Sedition Act by promoting ill-will and hostility between the city-state’s ethnic communities with their June Internet posts.

 

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The anniversary of an unsolved killing

Posted by Guessedworker on Friday, 07 October 2005 00:42.

In North London on the 4th or perhaps 5th of October 1985 a car driven by a young black male was stopped by the police.  It was immediately noticed that the road tax disc did not match the vehicle.  It was a none too clever substitute.  The driver made matters worse for himself by providing a false name, and was duly arrested.

At Tottenham police station the driver told his interviewers that his real name was Floyd Jarrett.  A decision was taken to conduct a search of his home address.  Four officers were detailed for the task.  For reasons one can only speculate the arrival of the officers caused panic among some of the occupants.  In the furore Jarrett’s mother, Mrs Cynthia Jarrett, collapsed.  She had a weak heart and this was the moment it gave out.  The police officers did everything they could to save her but she was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.

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Catholics for Islam

Posted by Guest Blogger on Thursday, 06 October 2005 12:04.

This story has already done the rounds on a couple of websites. But I thought it significant enough to also get a run here.

In short, there is a Catholic Center at New York University. An attendee of a Catholic retreat at the centre was surprised to find that the opening prayer was made not only to Jesus but also to Muhammad.

He was even more disconcerted to find that the Catholic Center hosted in its basement an Islamic Cultural Centre, complete with prayer rugs, pictures of Mecca and Islamic literature.

So here we have the the ecumenical spirit turned up to full blast. And what was the response of the Muslim side to all this? Did they give equally in return?

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