{"id":68176,"date":"2015-04-29T12:02:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T20:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68176"},"modified":"2015-04-29T12:03:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T20:03:27","slug":"its-time-to-get-australian-on-illegal-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68176","title":{"rendered":"It’s Time To Get Australian On Illegal Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katie Hopkins writes for The Sun newspaper of London<\/a>:<\/p>\n

No, I don\u2019t care. Show me pictures of coffins, show me bodies floating in water, play violins and show me skinny people looking sad.<\/p>\n

I still don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

Because in the next minute you\u2019ll show me pictures of aggressive young men at Calais, spreading like norovirus on a cruise ship.<\/p>\n

Watching them try to clamber on to British lorries and steal their way into the UK, do I feel pity? Only for the British drivers, who get hit with a fine every time one of this plague of feral humans ends up in their truck.<\/p>\n

Understand this, these two populations are the same. The migrants harassing Brit truckers at the port are the same as the vagrants making the perilous trip across the Med.<\/p>\n

And there is no stopping them. 170,000 came last year.<\/p>\n

During a recent operation by the Italian coastguard to rescue migrants off the coast of Libya, the people traffickers threatened crew with Kalashnikovs to get their vessel back.<\/p>\n

Clearly, boats are in short supply. And that is a good thing. No boats, no migrants.<\/p>\n

There is a simple solution to this. It\u2019s time for the Italians to stop singing opera, drinking espresso and looking chic in chuffing everything.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time to get Australian.<\/p>\n

Australians are like British people but with balls of steel, can-do brains, tiny hearts and whacking great gunships.<\/p>\n

Their approach to migrant boats is the sort of approach we need in the Med.<\/p>\n

They threaten them with violence until they bugger off, throwing cans of Castlemaine in an Aussie version of sharia stoning.<\/p>\n

And their approach is working. Migrant boats have halved in number since Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott got tough.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t need another rescue project. The now defunct \u00a37million-a-month Mare Nostrum \u2014 Italy\u2019s navy search and rescue operation \u2014 was paid for (in part) by British taxpayers.<\/p>\n

And we don\u2019t need a campaign from Save the Children to encourage more migrants to take the journey.<\/p>\n

What we need are gunships sending these boats back to their own country.<\/p>\n

You want to make a better life for yourself? Then you had better get creative in Northern Africa.<\/p>\n

Britain is not El Dorado. We are not Elysium. Some of our towns are festering sores, plagued by swarms of migrants and asylum seekers, shelling out benefits like Monopoly money.<\/p>\n

Make no mistake, these migrants are like cockroaches. They might look a bit \u2018Bob Geldof\u2019s Ethiopia circa 1984\u2032, but they are built to survive a nuclear bomb. They are survivors.<\/p>\n

Once gunships have driven them back to their shores, boats need to be confiscated and burned on a huge bonfire.<\/p>\n

Drilling a few holes in the bottom of anything suspiciously resembling a boat would be a good idea, too, just for belt and braces.<\/p>\n

Unless we take the emotion out of this and start connecting the migrants in the Med with the Africans clinging to trucks in Calais, we cannot deliver an appropriate response.<\/p>\n

If you think rescue boats are a good idea, you may as well set up a Libya to Italy P&O ferry service and send your taxes to Africa by direct debit for good measure.<\/p>\n

Or if you think like me, then it\u2019s time to get Australian. Bring on the gunships, force migrants back to their shores and burn the boats.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, I do care. I care passionately about British truckers and taxpayers in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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