PETER HITCHENS: What is the point of tourists' checks and tests if migrants can just walk into Dover?

Mail on Sunday ^ | June 6 | Peter Hitchens

[RandFan]

Compare and contrast. A British family, who have saved all year for a holiday after long months of house arrest and general dreariness, have to interrupt their break in Portugal to go home, on the stern orders of the Government in London.

Before them lie hours of bureaucracy, unpleasant and ruinously expensive nasal swabs, long forms to fill in, shuffling queues, more nasal swabs, more queues, and then days of being snooped on at home.

You'll know that I think this is ridiculous and useless. But even if you disagree with me, you must see that it is profoundly unfair, and a pretence of security.

It reminds me of the water companies which sternly tell us not to waste water in our homes while leaving a thousand ruptured mains gushing millions of gallons of the precious fluid back into the earth.

For here come the illegal migrants, in ever-growing numbers, who have chucked away their passports and paid a gangster to get them across the Channel.

Into the boats they climb, until they are 'rescued' from their self-imposed plight by an expensive cutter paid for by your taxes and mine, and ferried to a British port where, after a few weeks of processing, they are almost invariably allowed to remain and can vanish. In most cases, we will have very little idea of who they really are.

Someone will say at this point 'What about the plight of the poor refugee?' or alternatively that it is selfish of us British even to take holidays on sunny beaches while millions endure poverty in the Third World.

Well, a refugee would be just as able to escape his persecutors, if he really has any, in France as in Britain, so that one doesn't work.........

[antceecee]

Behold the Plandemic! Robbing FREEDOM from you under false pretenses.

[Dogbert41]

We figured it would be easier to get into North Korea than Honolulu.

[Pajamajan]

Scamdemic.

[Brian Griffin]

Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees

“Article 44 denunciation
1. Any Contracting State may denounce this Convention at any time by a notification addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
2. Such denunciation shall take effect for the Contracting State concerned one year from the date upon which it is received by the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
3. Any State which has made a declaration or notification under article 40 may, at any time thereafter, by a notification to the Secretary-General of the
United Nations, declare that the Convention shall cease to extend to such territory one year after the date of receipt of the notification by the Secretary-General.”

http://www.unhcr.org/protect/PROTECTION/3b66c2aa10.pdf

It is time to rid rid of the Refugee Convention porous border loophole. Every nation needs the unquestionable legal ability to secure its borders against the spread of Covid. One company says its vaccine was found to be 86% effective (14% ineffective) in the over 65 population.

[Brian Griffin]

Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees

“Article 44 denunciation
1. Any Contracting State may denounce this Convention at any time by a notification addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
2. Such denunciation shall take effect for the Contracting State concerned one year from the date upon which it is received by the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
3. Any State which has made a declaration or notification under article 40 may, at any time thereafter, by a notification to the Secretary-General of the
United Nations, declare that the Convention shall cease to extend to such territory one year after the date of receipt of the notification by the Secretary-General.”

http://www.unhcr.org/protect/PROTECTION/3b66c2aa10.pdf

It is time to rid rid of the Refugee Convention porous border loophole. Every nation needs the unquestionable legal ability to secure its borders against the spread of Covid. One company says its vaccine was found to be 86% effective (14% ineffective) in the over 65 population.

[Mr Radical]

"What is the point of tourists' checks and tests if migrants can just walk into Dover?"

Indeed.

Long ago came to the realisation that it's not incompetance but all part of a plan.

[BenLurkin]

“Migrants” = Invaders

[RandFan]

Hitchens does raise a good point in that during a supposed pandemic letting in the illegals with no health checks doesn’t make sense but there you go.

We live in strange times.