BBC coverage of the migrant crisis is the gospel of the liberal left

CW
It’s plain that many if not most now camped out in Budapest and Kos and Calais are not ‘refugees’ or ’asylum seekers’. Because of the EU’s open borders, no one seems to have a clue about their point of origin or their reasons for being here.
The suspicion is that a high proportion are economic migrants; pictures suggest they are mostly male and they are desperately trying to queue jump in order to get what they want.
This is potentially worrying because it suggests the beginnings of the complete disintegration of border controls. The EU’s ‘free movement’ principle has seemingly transmuted into a total free-for-all."

'They're NOT refugees, they're migrants after a German life': Hungarian PM claims thousands fleeing war zones should stay in Turkey because they are no longer in danger

Daily Mail

Viktor Orban says many migrants are seeking the 'German life' because they refuse to stay in other safe countries

Calls on EU to provide financial support to countries such as Turkey so migrants stay there and do not move on

Germany expects to receive some 800,000 refugees this year and has urged other EU members to open their doors 

President Francois Hollande said France would take in 24,000 refugees over the next two years to help the burden

But he warned that without united EU policy to share migrants the borderless Schengen system would collapse

Refugee crisis: What will the true cost of taking Syria's displaced be?

Telegraph
In March 2015, a Freedom of Information request revealed that the UK spends more than £700,000 a day housing and feeding asylum seekers – prompting representatives of Ukip and the Taxpayers’ alliance to complain that people were not being processed quickly enough. Once the cost of taking, say, 10,000 Syrian refugees is properly understood, we could see a political backlash against it. Where are the school places? The hospital beds? ......  But even if we help bring peace to Syria, we shouldn’t expect the Great Migration to stop. Because it’s about more than people fleeing immediate peril. It’s about a desire to economically better oneself and it’s made possible by a revolution in cheap communications...... Intellectuals and populists warn that huge transfers of populations are bound to change the culture of the country involved. That's the argument of Hungary's controversial premier, Viktor Orban, who has spoken of the erosion of Christian identity"

This child's death was tragic but it was not our fault

Daily Mail

Which brings us back to the child’s corpse on the beach in Turkey. I repeat, it’s awful. Heartbreaking. But it’s not our fault, and it’s not our responsibility, however compassionate we might feel.

The father told the Mail that the family were fleeing the war in Syria when the dinghy capsized.

Miraculously, he survived, although he couldn’t save his wife and two children.

But here’s what puzzles me. They’d been living in Turkey for the past year. So why didn’t he apply for asylum there? After all, surely culturally Syria has more in common with Turkey, another Muslim country, than with Tunbridge Wells or Trondheim.

We’re also told that he’s a Kurd. So why didn’t he move to Kurdistan? Who knows? And that’s just the point. No one knows anything for sure.

Similarly, the shocking death of a child should never be exploited just because media tarts and ‘liberal’ luvvies such as Jackboots Jacqui and the absurd Emma Thompson can feel good about themselves.

However horrible, however tragic such cases are, they’re not a sensible basis for a realistic asylum policy."

Tragic Aylan's final journey: Father of drowned boys returns home to bury his wife and two sons - in the war-torn city of Kobane

Daily Mail
The barber had paid people smugglers £2,900 over the course of three attempts to reach Greece from a refugee camp in Turkey."

OPINION: This man is responsible for the deaths of his wife and children. He took them from a safe place - Turkey - and placed them at great risk using people traffickers and THEY paid with their lives.

From the comments:

"Ok it's time all EU countries return anyone that comes by boat! Let them know if they do they will be refused entry full stop! Then this would stop the trafficking and the drowning,"

"These children and their parents left the safe haven of Turkey and in the Father's own words undertook a hazardous journey on an unsuitable boat on rough seas. Turkey is not an island, it has land borders with European countries, just not very attractive countries to migrants. Migrants are dying because when they are safe from ISIS/war/famine etc, they choose to head for a 'prosperous' life in Western Europe."

"Cameron, would you enlighten us as to where the UK is going to find the 'thousands of houses' needed to accommodate the 'thousands of refugees/economic migrants' that you have agreed to take? What about their health care, school places for their children and of course Benefits for the whole bunch? Where are the jobs? We can't house, provide adequate healthcare & schooling for our own people. As for jobs, what a laugh - the influx of 'free movement' workers has taken care of that! What's the long-term plan, I'm sure we'd all like to know! "

"Very sad story, but this country had its own problems, 50,000 children on the at risk register in Britain today. So before the lefty tree huggers invite every refugee into the UK, I would suggest we fix our own mess first."

  

For pity's sake, we must shut the borders: DANIEL HANNAN says the only way to control who comes here is to leave the EU

Daily Mail

What, then, is the solution? First, Schengen needs to go. The Euro-fanatics have done enough damage in their pursuit of political integration. 

The restoration of sovereign borders would mean the authorities of each country no longer had an incentive to wave migrants through, knowing they would become someone else’s responsibility.

Second, we need to follow Australia’s example. Faced with a surge of seaborne migration, it towed ships to an island and processed claims offshore. 

Since then, there has not been a single death through drowning and far fewer people attempt the journey.

To emulate Australia, though, we would have to stop interpreting the 1951 Refugee Convention in a way that obliges us to allow every asylum-seeker to remain in the EU while their claim is assessed.

That charter was designed in a very different age. Its authors were understandably haunted by the memory of the Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s who had been turned away from safe countries. 

They could not have dreamed of an era of cheap travel, when perhaps two billion people could theoretically claim to be victims of oppression.

To do what the Australians have done, the EU would have to abandon a great many accords, starting with its Charter of Fundamental Rights.

That, though, is unlikely to happen. So if Britain wants to control its borders, it will have to do so unilaterally, by leaving the EU.

Ministers are tying themselves in knots trying to avoid this conclusion. 

But all the schemes they propose – tightening benefits, requiring evidence of a job – fail to address the huge, clunking fact that, as long as we are in the EU, we cannot control who settles here or in what numbers.

Eventually, our hand may be forced. With no let-up in the numbers reaching Italy across the Mediterranean, there will come a point when the Rome government, tired of carrying the burden for other EU states, gives identity documents to all those migrants who want to move on and settle in Germany or Britain or Sweden.

The only question is whether this moment comes before or after Britain’s referendum.

If it comes before, no force on Earth will persuade people to remain in. 

If it comes after we’ve voted to stay, it will be too late to change our minds."

Barack Obama's diplomatic 'reset' has let Vladimir Putin get away with murder

Telegraph
By 2012, a still clueless Obama mocked Mitt Romney for saying that Russia is "without question our No. 1 geopolitical foe," quipping oh so cleverly: "The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back." After all, he explained, "the Cold War's been over for 20 years."
Turned out it was 2015 calling. Obama's own top officials have been retroactively vindicating Romney. Last month, Obama's choice for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff declared that "Russia presents the greatest threat to our national security." Two weeks ago, the retiring Army chief of staff, Raymond Odierno, called Russia our "most dangerous" military threat. Obama's own secretary of defense has gone one better: "Russia poses an existential threat to the United States."

80% of London Muslims Support ISIS

FrontPageMag
There are about 1 million Muslim settlers in London where they make up 12 percent of the population. These figures suggest that the vast majority of them, perhaps as high as 80 percent , support ISIS.  .....
These numbers suggest that most or virtually all young Muslim settlers in the UK support ISIS.
That's not surprising. Major papers such as the New York Times have found similar results in even supposedly moderate countries such as Tunisia among young Muslim natives. It's not surprising that young Muslim settlers in Europe hold similar views."

Multiculturalism is a cancer, our enemy is the savage cultures that exist domestically and come from other countries

JunkScience
There are, unfortunately, some cultures that cannot contribute to the progress of civilization.
We need to stop pretending otherwise. This open borders stuff is suicidal. We are getting everything we don’t want in this new wave of 3rd world immigration that started with the Teddy Kennedy immigration bill of the 70s and continued with Reagan amnesty in the 80s–we are getting the dregs from 3rd world countries with only a few exceptions. We don’t allow immigration of any degree from 1st world countries–we are becoming a dumping ground and our prisons are filling with foreign born monsters. ........
Ann Coulter is a U of Michigan Law Graduate who clerked for an appellate judge, but you know her as the polemicist and commentator/writer for the conservative point of view.
Her new book reveals the horrors of uncontrolled illegal and legal immigration and how it imports a criminality that is malignant and savage in its intensity and depravity but is covered up by the open borders political and media people who intimidate law enforcement into not revealing the magnitude of the problem. We can’t even get reliable info on nations of origin and immigration status for heinous felons and the incarcerated.
I would recommend that you read the accounts of crimes–but not too much at one time for the barbarity that is almost incomprehensible–beheadings, murders, terrorist type violence, rape, child abuse, and then ask yourself how could we be so blind?
There is a foreign rape culture that is now coming to America.
Violent killers and rapists are coming in and now fill up our jails but worse–they are not being jailed."

Inside the Milibunker: the last days of Ed

Spectator (Dan Hodges)
Labour’s failure to realise the true state of the ‘ground war’ was crippling. In the last days of a campaign, it is vital for the parties to have an accurate picture of what is happening in constituencies, so they can allocate workers and other important resources.
It used to work perfectly: in the old days, the Labour spin doctor Damian McBride used to win favours with journalists by sharing the party’s confidential internal polling, which was always spot on. This time, it failed. Miliband’s troops were effectively fighting blind. Blame for this abject failure of basic intelligence gathering has been viciously apportioned to several areas. Some are quick to point the finger at Labour HQ. ‘It wasn’t fit for purpose from day one,’ a shadow cabinet adviser told me. ‘The first day we turned up, we were told there weren’t enough workstations and some of us would have to spend the campaign working from home. Then someone discovered there was one mid-level official who still had a company car because he’d been with the party since the 1970s and that was still written into his contract.’      .............Ed Miliband was an idealist until the end. He surrounded himself with academics, took inspiration from political textbooks and had an extraordinary ability to detach himself from the hue and cry of daily politics. He created his own world and lived in it. This explains his preternatural calm and his astonishing self-belief — but it also explains why he drove his party over a cliff."

Lynton Crosby: 'the so-called experts have lost touch with ordinary people'

Telegraph

And what about Mr Miliband as a candidate?

“He really was a sort of first year politics graduate who thought he had the answers to the world’s problems - who’d done a year of the course and it was just that other people hadn’t been as smart as him in the past to implement the policies that he believed in. Whereas Cameron was very steady - he’s much underestimated and I think a very impressive leader.”

Lynton Crosby: 'the so-called experts have lost touch with ordinary people'

Telegraph
Mr Crosby adds: “I mean the public polls are a bit like going to a doctor who’s reporting your temperature each day and tells you it’s 38, then it’s 40, then it’s 39, then it’s 41. They don’t tell you what’s actually going on, what's causing the temperature changes yet people, they just report the temperature what you want is diagnosis that tells you what’s going on and why and that’s what they don’t do.”