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Another British Invasion
Townhall.com ^ | August 4, 2015 | Cal Thomas

Posted on 08/04/2015 4:03:17 PM PDT by Kaslin

When music fans think of "the British Invasion" they are referring to '60s bands like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Britain today, however, faces a different type of invasion.

Thousands of migrants, most from North Africa and the Middle East, are storming an ineffective "barricade" in Calais, France, as they attempt to enter England via the Chunnel, a 30-mile rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent, with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, in northern France. Some of these migrants hide on top of or inside of trucks or cling to the trains that travel beneath the English Channel. Some have died on the journey.

Cargo trucks were backed up last week in Calais, waiting for human and other traffic to clear. Some of the migrants have sat down on roads leading to the tunnel causing further traffic delays. A strike and blockade by French ferry workers has added to the misery, especially for vacationers trying to reach the continent. British Prime Minister David Cameron, confronting his first crisis since his re-election in May, is considering sending Army soldiers to Kent to ease traffic congestion.

Britain is facing a problem familiar to America, which has its own challenges with a porous "southern border."

Last Wednesday, at least 1,500 migrant attempts were made to storm inadequate fences in Calais. Outnumbered police could only stop a few. Some migrants interviewed vowed to return as many times as it takes to get into a country they see as providing jobs, health care and other benefits. In response, the Home Office confirmed "it was planning to strip families of the automatic right to benefits if their asylum applications were rejected," the government moved forward with a plan to evict illegal immigrants without a court order from rentals properties "under new laws designed to make Britain a tougher place to live in" and Theresa May, the home secretary, who warned in a Telegraph article written with Bernard Cazeneuve, France's minister of the Interior, that Britain's "streets are not paved with gold," said that "tackling this situation is the top priority for the UK and French governments."

America take note.

The French government blames Britain for the migrant crisis. It claims Britain has failed to provide enough security at the tunnel. French officials also say British companies are too willing to hire migrants for their cheap labor. British officials counter that France isn't doing enough to intercept the migrants before they reach Calais and that fences are inadequate.

A London Times editorial notes the rules adopted by the European Union: "...migrants are supposed to claim asylum in the first EU country in which they set foot. If they fail to do so, if they make their way from Italy and Greece on to France, then they should be sent back to their first port of call."

That isn't happening.

Then there is the problem, largely unspoken but real, that most of the migrants have come from Muslim countries. Are there radicals among them? No one can say with certainty, but "flooding the zone" would be part of a grand strategy to bring down Western nations by infiltrating and subjugating Britain and other European countries (and America) from within.

The London Times carried a story last week about how The University of Westminster in London "has hosted the highest number of extremist or intolerant speakers over the past three years." Islamic State murderer Mohammed Emwazi attended the school. The terrorist known as "Jihadi John" earned a computer programming degree at the school.

Stories of people from Muslim countries who are admitted to Britain and the U.S. on student visas and then disappear are all too familiar. An unknown number of Sharia courts -- estimated by the think tank Civitas to be 85 -- operate outside British law in handling legal disputes between Muslims.

For thousands of years the British Isles have been invaded by foreign powers. The British eventually were able to expel (or absorb) the invaders. "There'll always be an England," says the patriotic song. Unless the unbridled migration and immigration is slowed, or halted, that could be a hollow prophecy here and in America, which also might not always be.


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1 posted on 08/04/2015 4:03:17 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Just turn off the Socalism and ca$h flow to muzzies.


2 posted on 08/04/2015 4:04:54 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: Kaslin

1. Deport them as soon as they are caught. No trial. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.

2. Give them NOTHING if not caught. Not one pound in welfare. The existing mosques can have a soup kitchen.


3 posted on 08/04/2015 4:07:57 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Kaslin

The real story is the death of Western Civilization. It’s a pity all the real men of England died at the Somme and the real men of France died at Verdun. What’s left isn’t capable of stopping this.


4 posted on 08/04/2015 4:09:53 PM PDT by henkster (Where'd my tagline go?)
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To: henkster

Britain has a coward for a leader. The Muzzies will take it over


5 posted on 08/04/2015 4:12:15 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Britain has a coward for a leader because it’s people have become socialized sheep. These are not the same people who who built the Empire on which the sun never set.


6 posted on 08/04/2015 4:17:39 PM PDT by henkster (Where'd my tagline go?)
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To: henkster

Death of Western Civilization, at the hands of drunken atheist louts wandering about the streets of London.


7 posted on 08/04/2015 4:22:12 PM PDT by heye2monn
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To: henkster

Their last sign of life was under Maggie.


8 posted on 08/04/2015 4:24:52 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: henkster

The real story of the Death of Western Civilization was told in “Camp of the Saints.”


9 posted on 08/04/2015 4:30:53 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: 2banana

Could raze the mosques too.


10 posted on 08/04/2015 4:37:57 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: Kaslin

Why is the invasion by Muslim hordes even a story?

The EuroLeftists are getting exactly what they want. Why is that a story? The Euroweazels should be CELEBRATING the new diversity!

Or did someone finally turn on the light?


11 posted on 08/04/2015 4:47:22 PM PDT by navyguy (The National Reset Button is pushed with the trigger finger.)
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To: Kaslin

This isn’t just happening in the U.S. and UK, but across Europe as well, indeed world-wide.


12 posted on 08/04/2015 4:52:59 PM PDT by Company Man ("An armed society is a polite society." -- Robert Heinlein.)
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To: henkster

That war killed nearly 10,000 men a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks per year, for over four years.

Round II twenty years later didn’t help.

Europe never recovered.


13 posted on 08/04/2015 5:35:22 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

I keep thinking but for Round 2, Europe would have recovered. It would have taken more than a generation, but it could have happened. Round 2 made sure it didn’t.


14 posted on 08/04/2015 5:48:23 PM PDT by henkster (Where'd my tagline go?)
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To: Paladin2

Exactly. No feather-bed treatment to immigrants receiving or not receiving asylum. Right now they are getting preferential treatment over citizens. They will self-deport and decide to stay on the French dole.


15 posted on 08/04/2015 5:52:59 PM PDT by expat2
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To: stephenjohnbanker; henkster
The anglo-saxons have always had a tendency to be slow to anger, but when they have finally had enough, they go all out. Just ask the Germans and the Japanese and the Amerinds. Read Kipling's Et Dona Ferentes

It is easy to mistake this slowness to anger for weakness.

16 posted on 08/04/2015 5:59:51 PM PDT by expat2
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To: expat2
The Beginnings.
17 posted on 08/04/2015 6:13:48 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: expat2

So what’s it gonna take to finally piss them off? Muslims grooming and serially raping their precious little girls?

If that doesn’t do it I don’t know what will.


18 posted on 08/04/2015 6:13:49 PM PDT by henkster (Where'd my tagline go?)
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To: Noumenon

Kipling Ping.


19 posted on 08/04/2015 6:16:06 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Yes, a good one.


20 posted on 08/04/2015 6:21:17 PM PDT by expat2
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