Check out this torrent of absolute fake moralist horseshit.
Conservative MP Miriam Cates was heckled by some on the opposition benches as she argued: “Many of those who argue against strong borders and strong action against illegal immigration are not themselves personally affected by illegal immigration.
“Their wages are not threatened by the black market economy, they don’t rely on essential local resources that are taken up with housing migrants, their children are not sent to school with young men who are clearly not children, and their sense of agency and national identity does not rest on the integrity of our borders or the sovereignty of our Parliament.
“For those whose lives and culture are not negatively impacted by thousands of people arriving here on small boats it makes sense to argue for open borders in the name of compassion.
“For many of my constituents, these are luxury beliefs and the reality is that high and clearly visible levels of illegal immigration are a threat to ordinary people’s safety, security, identity and sense of fair play.
“Believing in and upholding strong borders and firm boundaries is not uncompassionate or bigoted. It is a pre-requisite for a fair, safe and cohesive nation.
“Ultimately when boundaries are not upheld or laws are not unenforced, it’s always the vulnerable that suffer as criminals exploit loopholes and drain much-needed finite resources away from those in genuine need.”
Who's suggesting not enforcing borders or not enforcing laws? Who's supporting illegal working? Whose "culture" is affected, what does that even mean? Most of us don't support "open borders". We just want to do what we used to- evaluate claims properly.
Whatever the cost of all this is, much of it down to government inefficiency, it's surely dwarfed by Brexit, Osbornomics and all the rest of it. Why were those not "luxury beliefs"?
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